Geoffrey Horrocks Author

David Holton is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College. He directed the 'Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek' research project and has published many articles on Greek language and literature of various periods. His publications include: The Tale of Alexander: The rhymed version (1973, 2nd edition 2002), Erotokritos (1991), Studies on Erotokritos and other Modern Greek Texts (2001), (as editor) Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete (Cambridge, 1991), and (as a co-author) two grammars of Modern Greek. Geoffrey Horrocks is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of St John's College. He is a leading international authority on the history and structure of Greek, and over the last forty years has published widely on the morphology, syntax and semantics of the ancient, medieval and modern language. His publications include the groundbreaking monograph Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers (2nd edition, 2010). In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for his services to Greek linguistics. Marjolijne Janssen studied Medieval and Modern Greek at the University of Amsterdam, where she then taught language and linguistics and collaborated on the compilation of the comprehensive dictionary Prisma Groot Woordenboek Nederlands-Nieuwgrieks en Nieuwgrieks-Nederlands. She has been involved with the 'Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek' Project since 2007 and has published a number of articles arising from it. Tina Lendari is Assistant Professor in Medieval Vernacular and Early Modern Greek Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She studied at the Universities of Crete and Cambridge and has taught at the Universities of Crete, Patras, Ioannina, Thessaloniki and Cambridge. From 2004 to 2007 she was a Research Associate on the 'Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek' Project. She has published many articles on textual criticism, linguistic analysis and literary theory as applied to medieval and early modern Greek literature and produced the editio princeps of the romance Livistros and Rodamne, version V. Her current project is a new edition of the romance Velthandros and Chrysantza. Io Manolessou studied Greek literature and linguistics at the Universities of Athens and Cambridge. She has worked as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and as a Lecturer in Historical Linguistics at the University of Patras. She now holds the post of Senior Researcher at the Academy of Athens, working on the compilation of the Historical Dictionary of Modern Greek. She has participated in a number of international research projects on Greek dialectology and linguistics, and has published more than fifty papers on various topics focusing on Greek language history, dialectology and lexicography. Notis Toufexis is a Digital Humanities specialist with a background in Classics and a Ph.D. on Early Modern Greek from the University of Hamburg. He was a Research Associate on the 'Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek' Project from 2004 to 2009 and has published a number of articles arising from it.