MELA. The meaning of language. A digital grammar of the Greek taught at schools in Late Constantinople Ghent University
Multiple registers coexisting within the same linguistic system and the creation of grammars codifying one of these registers as ‘the standard’ are phenomena common to many languages.
The same issues are observed in the remarkable history of Greek, where the high-register variety has competed with other, lower-register varieties in a relation of mutual influence throughout the centuries.
Recent scholarship has devoted ...