Pietro Bortone
BA (London), MSt (Oxford),  MPhil (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford) - see webpage
Assistant Professor in Modern Greek Studies

Office: 1812 University Hall
Telephone: (312) 996 5538
E-mail:  bortonep@uic.edu

Areas of Research and Publication:
Literature, society, culture, identity, language, & linguistics of Modern Greece,
including in relation to Classical Greece and to neighboring countries

Recent Publications 
- (in press) Greek prepositions from antiquity to the present. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2008: "Greek with no history, models, or standard". Forthcoming in Georgakopoulou, A / Silk, M. (eds) Language standards and standard language: the Greek experience. London.
- 2004: Review of A History of the Greek Language from the beginnings to Late Antiquity.
A.P. Christidis,  ed. (Thessaloniki 2004). Journal of Modern Greek Linguistics 4, 2004.
- 2003: "On the Ancient Greek Nominative" in Studies in Greek Linguistics 23
- 2002: "Division of labour according to age: the Medieval Greek prepositional system" in Recherches en linguistique grecque, ed. Clairis, Ch. (L’Harmattan, Paris)
- 2002: "The Status of the Ancient Greek cases"  in Studies in Greek Linguistics 22:

Work in Progress:
- the archaic Pontic Greek dialect

Courses recently taught:
- Modern Greek literature [in translation] (CL298)
- Modern Greek culture [in translation] (GKM 105) 
- Modern Greek authors [in translation] (GKM203)
- Beginners' Modern Greek language I (GKM101)
- Beginners' Modern Greek language II (GKM 102)
- Intermediate Modern Greek Language I (GKM103)
- Intermediate Modern Greek Language II (GKM104)
- Introduction to Katharevousa (GKM 201)



See also the UIC Modern Greek Studies Website