Previous positions
- UIC Institute for the Humanities:
Research
Fellow
- Harvard University: Summer Research Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks
- Princeton University: Research Fellow at the Program in
Hellenic Studies
- Princeton University: Fellow at Wilson College
- University of Athens: Onassis Foundation Research Fellow in Modern Greek
Studies
- University
of Oxford: Wingate Foundation Research
Scholar
Pre-doctoral positions
- University of
Oxford: Instructor
for the Faculty of Classics
- University of
Oxford: occasional tutor in
Modern
Greek linguistics
- Oxford University
Press: Freelance
etymologist
for the Oxford English Dictionary
Education
- DPhil in the History of Greek (Oxford University)
- MPhil in Comparative Philology (Oxford University)
- MSt in
Linguistic Theory (Oxford University)
- BA in Classical, Medieval & Modern Greek (King’s College
London)
with First Class Honours and
the Burrows
Studentship award
Interests
- Modern Greek Studies:
culture, linguistics,
history, and literature of Modern Greece
- Linguistics: phonetics, morphology, sociolinguistics, historical
linguistics
- Mediterranean Studies: cultural
interchanges of Greece, Turkey, and beyond
- Classics: Ancient
Greek and Latin culture, language, literature, and
society
- Languages:
(besides
Greek & Latin) Turkish, Romanian, Hebrew, Italian, Swedish
- Byzantine Studies: Medieval Greek
philology
Most recent publications
- Bortone, P.
2009. Greek prepostions from
antiquity to the
present. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Bortone, P. 2009. Greek
with
no history, no standard, no models’. In A.
Georgakopoulou and M. Silk (eds.), Standard
Languages and
Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present.
London:
Ashgate.
Research in progress
- Pontic Greek
- Issues of
linguistic identity in Greece and Turkey
Courses taught
- Modern Greek Literature
- Modern Greek Authors
- Upper Intermediate Modern Greek
- Modern Greek Culture
- Advanced Modern Greek
- Katharevousa and its literature
- Lower Intermediate Modern Greek
- Beginners' Modern Greek
- Classical Greek Syntax
- Modern Greek Linguistics
Address during summer term and vacation
periods
- Pietro
Bortone
Wolfson College
University of Oxford
Oxford OX2 6UD
England
pietro.bortone @classics.ox.ac.uk
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