Alumni and guests are invited to join the Hellenic Cambridge Alumni Association for a Cambridge Professor talk/book launch - The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek.

Authors:

David Holton, Geoffrey Horrocks, Marjolijne Janssen, Tina Lendari, Io Manolessou, and Notis Toufexis.

Speakers:

Despina Chila-Markopoulou, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Stefanos Kaklamanis, Professor of Modern Greek Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

David Holton, Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek, University of Cambridge, and other members of the research group.

Co-ordinator: Dionysis Kapsalis, Cultural Foundation of the National Bank

The Grammar is a unique work of exceptional significance, providing the first full description of the Greek vernacular in the Medieval and Early Modern periods (circa 1100–circa 1700). It is based on an extensive corpus of literary and non-literary texts and is the result of many years of research. This major research programme, based at the University of Cambridge, was carried out by a research group consisting of academics specialising in linguistics, philology and the new technologies.