Wolfson College
Oxford OX2 6UD
pietro.bortone@classics.ox.ac.uk
Fields of interests - Historical and
descriptive linguistics
- Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
Greek philology - Languages (esp. Greek, Turkish, Latin, Romanian,
Hebrew, Swedish) - Classics, Byzantine Studies, Modern Greek
Studies, Turkish Studies, and Balkan Studies
Current
research
topics - Cases and
adpositions, synchronically and diachronically
- Surviving enclaves of Pontic Greek
- Language in ethnic
and social classifications - Greek and Turkish identity,
nationalisms, minorities, diasporas Most recent
publications - Bortone, P.
2009. Greek
Prepositions from antiquity to the present. Oxford: Oxford
University
Press. (link) - Bortone,
P. 2009. ‘Greek with no
history, no standard, no models’. Georgakopoulou,
A. and Silk,
M. (ed.) Standard
Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present.
London: Ashgate, 67-89. (link) Outside positions - Assistant Professor in
Modern Greek
Studies,University of
Illinois at
Chicago (link) - Research Fellow at the
Institute for Advance Studies, Berlin (starting September 2010)
Past Fellowships - Rhodes
University, South Africa: Hugh
LeMay Research Fellow in the Humanities - UIC
Institute for The Humanities: Research Fellow - Harvard
University, Dumbarton Oaks: Summer Fellow in Byzantine Studies - Princeton
University: Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow in Hellenic Studies (and at Wilson College) - Athens
University: Onassis Foundation Post- Doctoral
Fellow - University of Oxford:
Wingate
Foundation Scholar
Pre-doctoral
employment - University of Oxford:
Freelance Etymologist for the Oxford English Dictionary - University of Oxford:
Instructor for the Faculty of Classics
Education - University of Oxford: DPhil in
Historical Linguistics
- University College London: Scandinavian Studies
- University of Oxford: MPhil in Comparative Philology - University
of Oxford: MSt in Theoretical Linguistics - King’s College London: BA in
Classical, Medieval, &
Modern Greek Last update: Oct
2009
University
of Oxford 