Prof. Dr. Mark Janse (Visiting Professor) Visiting Professor of Linguistics & Classics P.O. Box 94 NL-4330 AB Middelburg Office hours: by appointment Tel. 0118-655515 / Fax 0118-655508 E-mail:

Profile

Mark Janse (1959) is Full (visiting) Professor of Linguistics & Classics and former Head of the Department of Arts & Humanities at Roosevelt Academy. He studied Classics (1981, magna cum laude), Hebrew (1983, summa cum laude) and Linguistics (1985, summa cum laude) at Ghent University, where he also obtained his Ph.D. degree in Greek & Latin Language & Linguistics with a dissertation on the history of Greek and Latin clitic placement (1995, summa cum laude, with the special congratulations of the Ph.D. committee). His research on Ancient Greek has earned him (visiting) professorships at Ghent University (1996-2004), the University of Amsterdam (2003-2004) and the Ohio State University (2004). His pioneering work on Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek) was supported by grants from the Fund for Scientif Research-Flanders and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. It has earned him an associate professorship at the University of Patras (from 2005), visiting fellowships at the University of Amsterdam (2002-2003), Ghent University (from 2005) and All Souls College, Oxford (Michaelmas term 2007). He has given invited lectures and seminars on Cappadocian at the universities of Amsterdam, Athens, Cambridge, Crete, Leiden, Louvain, Manchester, Nancy, Naples, Oxford, Paris, Rome, Thessaloniki and Utrecht.

Mark Janse has published more than sixty scholarly articles and thirty books on Ancient, Biblical, Byzantine & Modern Greek, Cappadocian, Pontic, Turkish, Hebrew, Latin and general linguistics. His latest work is almost entirely devoted to Cappadocian, a Greek-Turkish mixed language thought to have died out in the 1960s. His recent discovery of Capppadocian speakers received much attention in the media. He is founder and co-ordinator of a large international academic network on minority languages in Greece and Turkey, and co-founder and permanent member of the organizing and scientific committee of the international conferences on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory. He is international advisory editor of Journal of Greek Linguistics, member of the the Foundation for Endangered Languages and the Society for Modern Greek Dialectology of the Academy of Athens, Corresponding Member of the Center for Asia Minor Studies (Athens) and the Center for Cappadocian Research (Kavala).

Apart from being a philologist, glossologist, hellenist, philhellene and (according to some) a zïrzïrï Kappadokis, Mark Janse is also a devoted Zappaphile and an acknowledged Zappalogist. He is author of the infamous Motherese-series published in the 1990s in the Dutch fanzine The Black Page, in which are revealed some of the more exotic intricacies of the multifaceted oeuvre of Frank Zappa. He is winner of the 1990 Advanced Frank Zappa Contest and owner of the accompanying prize (being a cheesy T-shirt he had already purchased at the entrance). Time permitting, he likes to indulge in cooking with a distinct preference for Mediterranean, South & Southeast Asian and (Con)fusion cuisines. Some of his dishes are reported to be unduly spicy. He is a sponsor of the Tanqueray Foundation.

Key Publications

• 2007. The Greek of the New Testament. In: A.-F. Christidis (ed.), A History of Ancient Greek. From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 646-653.
• 2007. “Cappadocian,” in: Chr. Tzitzilis (ed.), The Modern Greek Dialects. Thessalo­niki: Institute for Modern Greek Studies (Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation), in press (Greek version & Russian translation in preparation).
• 2007. Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek). In: Yaron Matras & Jeanette Sakel (eds.), Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007, in press.
• 2007. Clitic Doubling from Ancient to Asia Minor Greek. In: Dalina Kallulli & Liliane Tasmowski (eds.), Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages. Amsterdam: John Ben­jamins, 2007, in press (Linguistics Today).
• 2006. Object Position in Cappadocian and Other Asia Minor Greek Dialects. In: Mark Janse, Brian D. Joseph & Angela Ralli (eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Lin­guistic Theory. Patras: Univer­sity of Patras Press, 2006, 115-129.
• 2004. “Animacy, Definiteness and Case in Cappadocian and other Asia Minor Greek Dialects.” Journal of Greek Linguistics 5. 3-26.
• 2002. “Aspects of Bilingualism in the History of the Greek Lan­guage,” in: J. N. Adams, Mark Janse & Simon Swain (eds.), Bilingualism in Ancient Society. Language Contact and the Written Word, 332-390. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2000. “Convergence and Divergence in the Development of the Greek and Latin Clitic Pronouns,” in: Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe & Ariel Shisha Ha-Levy (eds.), Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time, 231-258. Amsterdam: Benjamins (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 213).
• 1999. “Les besoins de la Cause. Causatifs hébraïques–causatifs grecs,” in: Alain Blanc & Alain Christol (eds.): Langues en contact dans l’Antiquité. Aspects lexicaux, 131-149. Paris: de Boccard, 1999 (Études anciennes, 19).

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Conferences

• 2007.06.14-16. Third International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (co-organized with Angela Ralli, University of Patras, Brian D. Joseph, Ohio State University & Pavlos Pavlou, University of Cyprus), Nicosia.
• 2007.01.26-27. Aristotelian Encounters. Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg [co-organized with with Bert Mosselmans & Michael Burke].
• 2006.01.27. Hellenistendag 2006. Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg.
• 2005.12.14. Language Death & Revival. Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg.
• 2005.04.27. Religious Metaphor(s) in the History of the Greek Language. Ghent University [co-organized with Sam Creve & Kristoffel Demoen].
• 2004.09.30-10.03. Second International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory. Mytilene [co-organized with Angela Ralli & Brian D. Joseph].
• 2004.01.19. First (Ever) Martin Luther King Day Symposium on Greek Linguistics. Ohio State University, Columbus [co-organized with Brian D. Joseph].
• 2003.03.21. BLonline and Endangered Languages. National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague [co-organized with Sijmen Tol].
• 2000.11.02-03. Linguistic Biblio­graphy and the Languages of the World. National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague [co-organized with Sijmen Tol].
• 2000.10.12-14. First International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory. University of Patras [co-organized with Angela Ralli & Brian D. Joseph].
• 1998.04.02-04. Aspects of Bilingualism in the An­cient World. University of Reading [co-organized with J. N. Adams & Simon Swain].

Invited Lectures & Seminars (2006-2007)

• 2007.03.26-30. Department of Linguistics, University of Patras.
• 2007.03.07. Center for Greek Studies, Ghent University.
• 2006.11.13. Research Institute for History and Culture, Utrecht University.
• 2006.11.10. Department of Classics, University of Amsterdam.
• 2006.10.03. Nederlands Klassiek Verbond, Middelburg.
• 2006.08.25. Honorary speaker, Gavoustima (Annual Cappadocian Festival), Kavala.
• 2006.06.22. Netherlands Institute in Athens.
• 2006.06.13-17. Department of Linguistics, University of Patras.
• 2006.05.28. Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford.
• 2006.05.25. Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
• 2006.04.03-05, Department of Classics, University of Rome (La Sapienza)
• 2006.03.20-24, Department of Linguistics, University of Patras.
• 2006.02.01. Dies Natalis Lecture, Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg.

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Conference Papers (2006-2007)

• 2007.08.29-09.02. 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Ioannina.
• 2007.06.17-19. 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, Nicosia.
• 2007.06.15-16. 3rd International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, Nicosia.

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Research Projects

• Documentation and Description of Cappadocian (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Project, Pilot Project Grant, 2007)
• Language and Culture Contacts in the History of Greek (Flemish Research Foundation Grant 1.5.172.03, 2003-2005).
• The Grammar of Cappadocian (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Grant 365-50-011, 2002-2003).
• Language Variation, Language Change and Language Death in Language Contact (Flemish Research Foundation Grant 1.5.116.00, 2000-2002).
• Reconstructing Intonation Units in Ancient Greek (Flemish Research Foundation Grant 1.5.416.97, 1997-1999).

Scientific Organizations