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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
            Linotype",serif" lang="DE"><span class="xpel"><span
                style="" lang="EN-GB">we would like to draw your
                attention to the following talk, which will take place
                at the ÖAW on Monday, 20th November, 2017, 17:15 and
                which is organised by the commission</span></span>
            <i>Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage</i> (VLACH) of
            the  <i>Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften</i> in
            cooperation with the <i>Wiener Sprachgesellschaft</i>:
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
            Linotype",serif" lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Brandon Grotesque
            Medium";text-transform:uppercase" lang="EN-US">Dr.
            Ioanna Sitaridou, University of Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Brandon Grotesque
            Black";color:#2F5597;text-transform:uppercase"
            lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Brandon Grotesque
            Black";color:#2F5597;text-transform:uppercase"
            lang="EN-US">Romeyka in Turkey:
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Brandon Grotesque
            Black";color:#2F5597;text-transform:uppercase"
            lang="EN-US">Throwing new light on the historical
            development of the Greek language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
            Linotype",serif" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Brandon Grotesque
            Medium";text-transform:uppercase" lang="DE">Montag, 20.
            November 2017, 17:15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
            Linotype",serif" lang="DE">Sitzungssaal der ÖAW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
            Linotype",serif" lang="DE">Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2,
            1010 Wien<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
            Linotype",serif" lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
              style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
              Linotype",serif" lang="DE">In diesem Vortrag wird die
              Entwicklung des pontischen Griechisch im weiteren Kontext
              des kleinasiatischen Griechisch diskutiert. Aufgrund eines
              Mangels an schriftlichen Belegen, die Hinweise auf die
              Entwicklung des pontischen Griechischen geben könnten,
              stellt Romeyka, eine bedrohte griechischen Sprachvarietät,
              die noch an der türkischen Schwarzmeerküste gesprochen
              wird, durch ihren konservativen Charakter eine Art
              "Fenster in die Vergangenheit" dar; daher können wir die
              chronologische Entwicklung vom Proto-pontischen, aus dem
              sich Romeyka entwickelt hat, nachvollziehen und annehmen,
              dass sich seine Spaltung von anderen griechischen
              Varietäten mindestens 500 Jahre früher als bisher
              angenommen und damit in hellenistischer Zeit und nicht im
              Mittelalter vollzogen hat.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
              style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
              Linotype",serif" lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
              style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
              Linotype",serif" lang="DE">In this talk I discuss the
              evolution of Pontic Greek within the broader context of
              Asia Minor Greek.
            </span></i><i><span
              style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
              Linotype",serif">Given the lack of sufficiently old
              textual evidence, which would normally provide clues as to
              the evolution of Pontic Greek, the conservative character
              of Romeyka, an endangered Greek variety still spoken in
              the area of Black Sea in Turkey, means that it can be used
              as a “window on the past”; thus, allowing us to create a
              chronology of the evolution of Proto-Pontic, to which
              Romeyka belongs, and identify its split from other Greek
              varieties as being at least 500 years earlier than
              previously thought, in Hellenistic times, rather than
              during the medieval period.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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              style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
              Linotype",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
            Linotype",serif" lang="DE">Anmeldung erbeten an:
          </span><a href="mailto:vlach@oeaw.ac.at"
            moz-do-not-send="true"><span
              style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
              Linotype",serif" lang="DE">vlach@oeaw.ac.at</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
            Linotype",serif" lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino
            Linotype",serif" lang="DE">Thede KAHL, Eva-Maria
            REMBERGER<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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