Pietro Bortone (BA, MSt, MPhil, DPhil)
  
    






    



Address:
Dr Pietro Bortone 
Wolfson College
Oxford OX2 6UD
England
pietro.bortone@classics.ox.ac.uk
                     University of Oxford  

 




 






 




 
    
     
  Affiliations outside of Oxford
  • Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala University


       Some past awards
  • Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg), Berlin: Fellowship
  • Rhodes University: Hugh LeMay Research Fellowship in Classics
  • UIC Institute for the Humanities: Research Fellowship  
  • Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks: Summer Research Fellowship  
  • Princeton University: Research Fellowship at the Program in Hellenic Studies
                                       and College Fellowship at
    Wilson College Princeton
  • University of Athens: Onassis Foundation Scholarship 
  • University of Oxford: Wingate Foundation Scholarship 


     
Pre-doctoral positions
  • University of Oxford: instructor in Ancient Greek for the Faculty of Classics 
  • University of Oxford: tutor in Greek linguistics
  • Oxford University Press: etymologist for the Oxford English Dictionary 
  • Bloomsbury Publishing, London: etymologist for the Encarta World Dictionary 


      Education
  • University of Oxford: DPhil in Historical (Greek) Linguistics
  • University College London: Scandinavian Studies
  • University of Oxford: MPhil in Comparative Philology 
  • University of Oxford: MSt in Linguistic Theory
  • King’s College London: BA in Classical, Medieval, & Modern Greek


       Books published
  • Bortone, P. 2010. Greek prepositions from antiquity to the present. Oxford: Oxford University Press [scholarly reviews]


       Other recent publications
  • Bortone, P.  2012. 'Greek grammar'. ODLA. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]
  • Bortone, P.  2012. 'The Latin language'. ODLA. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]
  • Bortone, P.  2012. 'Bilingualism'. ODLA. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]
  • Bortone, P.  2012. 'The Greek language'. ODLA. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]
  • Bortone, P. 2012.  ‘[Ancient Greek] Adpositions’. EAGLL. Boston: Brill [in press]
  • Bortone, P. 2009. 'Greek with no history, no standard, no models’. A. Georgakopoulou,  M. Silk  (eds.),
    Standard Languages and Language Standards:
    Greek, Past and Present. London: Ashgate



      Some articles published as a student
  • Bortone, P. 2002. ‘Division of labour according to age:  the Medieval Greek prepositional system’. Clairis, Ch. (ed.) Recherches en linguistique grecque. L’Harmattan, Paris, 111-4
  • Bortone, P. 2002. The Status of the Ancient Greek cases’. Studies in Greek Linguistics 22:1, 69-80.


      Recent invited lectures (2009-12)
  • Harvard University, University of London (SOAS), University of Chicago, Uppsala University, Rhodes University,
    Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Centre for Advanced Studies at Sofia,
    St Petersburg State University,
    University of Pretoria


       Fields of interests
  • Classics
  • Historical Linguistics, Comparative Philology, Descriptive Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
  • Modern Greek Studies, Byzantine Studies, Turkish Studies
  • Languages, esp. Greek, Latin, Turkish, Romanian, Swedish, Italian, Hebrew


       Current research area
  • Use of Greek and of other languages for identity claims 


       
Formal training for university teaching
  • University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics (for the teaching of Ancient Greek and Latin)
  • Princeton University, Center for Teaching and Learning
  • University of Oxford, Academic Staff Development & Training
  • University of Oxford, Department of Continuing Education


       Courses taught at various universities

  • Classical Greek Syntax
  • Greek Linguistics
  • Katharevousa and its literature
  • Advanced Modern Greek 
  • Upper Intermediate Modern Greek

  • Modern Greek Literature
  • Modern Greek Culture
  • Modern Greek Authors
  • Lower Intermediate Modern Greek 
  • Beginners' Modern Greek