Research Strands
Linguistic typology. I have tried to show how typologically well-known morphosyntactic
patterns of modality and tense & aspect are (or are not) reflected in the
diachronic data of Greek, Romance and Indo-European languages. To this end, I have especially investigated counterfactuality (e.g. counterfactual moods IF 2022 & 2024, monograph), avertives (2024, monograph), insubordination (e.g. SO 2021, JOLL 2022, JGL 2024), and habituality (IF 2022, FolH 2023). In particular, I have used the diachronic evidence from (Ancient) Greek to refine the diachronic typology of habituals, insubordinate constructions, and especially counterfactuals (cf. IF 2024, OUP 2025 and Brill 2025).
Historical linguistics. I have been
involved in grammaticalization research, its potential
improvement with typology (e.g. FolH 2022 on the different diachronic pathways into past habituality, and IF & CP 2024 on the life cycles of counterfactual moods and modal verbs), collocationist analyses (e.g. IF 2020 on using collocations to trace the grammaticalization stages of habitual auxiliaries), and its intersection with related
historical processes such as intersubjectification (e.g. 2022 Diachronica and forthc. on the
intersubjectification and grammaticalization of imperatives).
(Historical) pragmatics. There
are many more pragmatic patterns in Ancient Greek and Latin which will be
familiar to us from modern languages. Thus far, I have tried to
explain the pragmatics of counterfactual patterns (e.g. Listy 2022, JHL 2024), the historical pragmatics of non-standard wishes in Ancient Greek, or of insubordinate patterns in Latin and Greek. At the same time, I have
tried to show the utility of Conversation Analysis for our
understanding of ancient dialogical and non-dialogical texts (e.g. 2022 Emerita or forthc on insubordinate ὅπως). I have also detailed the diachronic evolution of specific pragmatic patterns such as the pragmatic spread of insubordinate constructions (2024 JGL) and the evolution of performative wishes (2025 Lexis).
Ancient scholarship, Atticism and ancient languages. We
possess many sources about ancient sources and their language from antiquity,
some of which can provide useful perspectives on ancient language variation and
change. To illustrate, I have recently collected the metalinguistic evaluations
of morphosyntactic variation and change in Post-Classical Greek from the Atticist lexica
(JGL 2022) and examined how impersonal modals (e.g. one ought to use X) reflect usage patterns with overt prestige (GRBR 2024 with Roumanis). I have also examined the links between Atticism and morphosyntactic innovation in Post-Classical Greek morphosyntax (e.g. 2025 JHS, 2025).
PhD dissertation
2023. Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek: Pragmatics, Life Cycles and Connected Pathways. March 2023, Ghent University.
Edited Volumes
in prep. E. la Roi, M.S. Sansiñena, & A. Van linden. Pathways of Insubordination. Typological Studies in Languages (TSL). John Benjamins.
2025. K. Bentein, E. Cattafi and E. la Roi (eds.). Subordination and Insubordination in Post-Classical Greek: from Syntax to Context. De Gruyter.
2025. E. la Roi & D. Pratali Maffei. Language Change from Above and Below in Ancient Greek and Latin. Special issue for the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 11 (1), 173-308
2020 (ed.). Lingua graeca als lingua franca! De griekse taal door de eeuwen heen. Tetradio. [Lingua Graeca as Lingua Franca! The Greek language through the Centuries.Classics journal for public outreach, specifically aimed at disseminating the latest research into Antiquity to a wider public]
2023. Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek: Pragmatics, Life Cycles and Connected Pathways. March 2023, Ghent University.
in prep. E. la Roi, M.S. Sansiñena, & A. Van linden. Pathways of Insubordination. Typological Studies in Languages (TSL). John Benjamins.
2025. K. Bentein, E. Cattafi and E. la Roi (eds.). Subordination and Insubordination in Post-Classical Greek: from Syntax to Context. De Gruyter.
2025. E. la Roi & D. Pratali Maffei. Language Change from Above and Below in Ancient Greek and Latin. Special issue for the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 11 (1), 173-308
2020 (ed.). Lingua graeca als lingua franca! De griekse taal door de eeuwen heen. Tetradio. [Lingua Graeca as Lingua Franca! The Greek language through the Centuries.Classics journal for public outreach, specifically aimed at disseminating the latest research into Antiquity to a wider public]
Papers in peer-reviewed Journals
in press, 2025. The Life Cycles of Counterfactuals from Latin to Romance: Moods, modal verbs and their diachronies. Linguarum Varietas. Special issue on Modality in Latin, edited by Anna Orlandini, Paolo Poccetti and Carlotta Viti. PDF
2025. Van smeken naar 'asjeblieft' in het Oudgrieks: de Historische Pragmatiek van performatieve taalhandelingen. Lampas 58 (4), 359-381. [ From begging to 'please' in Ancient Greek: the historical pragmatics of performative speech acts, article for the Dutch journal of Classics] PDF
2025. Sources and Methods for Detecting Language change from above and below in Post-Classical Greek and Latin. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 11 (1), 173-201 PDF
2024. with E. Roumanis. Unpacking the Norms of Atticism: impersonal modality and the negotiation of overt prestige in the Atticist lexicographers. Graeco-Latina Brunensia 29 (2), 59-77. PDF
2024. The Impact of Insubordination on the history of Greek: cross-linguistic connections, morphosyntactic innovations and pragmatic spread in the mood system. Journal of Greek Linguistics 24 (2), 290-322. PDF.
2024. The Life Cycles of Counterfactual Mood in Indo-European languages: the inherited counterfactual functions of the optative and its replacements through time. Indogermanische Forschungen 129, 241-280. PDF
2024. The Life Cycles of Counterfactual Modal Verbs in Ancient Greek: Temporal Reference Shift, Language Ecology and Analogy. Classical Philology 119 (4), 502-527. PDF
2024. Polarity Reversal Constructions and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek: Between Implicature and Conventionalization. Journal of Historical Linguistics 14 (2), 335-375. Published online 30.03.2023. PDF
2023. Down the Paths to the Past Habitual: its Historical Connections with counterfactual Pasts, Future in the Pasts, Iteratives and Lexical Sources in Ancient Greek. Folia Linguistica Historica 56 (44), 87-116. Published online since 24.10.2022. PDF
2022. The Pragmatics of the Past: a Novel Typology of Conditionals with Past Tenses in Ancient Greek, Listy Filologicke 144 (3-4), 263-306. PDF
2022. Towards a chronology of the Modal Particles: The Diachronic Spread in the Ancient Greek Mood System. Graeco-Latina Brunensia 27(2), 113-135. PDF
2022. The Secondary Interjections εἶεν and εἶἑν as Fossilized Wish Optatives: a Conversation Analysis Approach. Emerita: Revista de Lingüística y Filología Clásica 90 (2), 253–280. PDF
2022. The Atticist lexica as Metalinguistic Resource for Morphosyntactic change in Post-Classical Greek. Journal of Greek Linguistics 22(2), 199–231. PDF
2022. Interlocked Life Cycles of Counterfactual Mood Forms from Archaic to Classical Greek: Aspect, Actionality and Changing Temporal Reference. Indogermanische Forschungen 127, 235–282. PDF
2022. Insubordination in Archaic and Classical Latin: Commands, Requests, Wishes and Assertives. Journal of Latin Linguistics 21 (1), 23–45. PDF
2022. Weaving Together the Diverse Threads of Category Change: Intersubjective Ἀμέλει ‘of course!’ and Imperative Particles in Ancient Greek. Diachronica 39 (2), 151–192. PDF
2021. The Insubordination of If- and That-Clauses from Archaic to Post-Classical Greek: ADiachronic Constructional Typology. Symbolae Osloenses 95, 2–64. PDF
2020. The Development of Εὑρίσκω ‘Find’ as Evidence towards a Diachronic Solution of the Matching-Problem in Ancient Greek Complementation. Philologia Classica 15 (2), 191–207. PDF
2020. A Rephilologized Diachronic Analysis of ‘Post-Classical Greek’: Pitfalls and Principles for Progress. Journal of Greek Linguistics 20 (2), 213–38. PDF
2020. Habitual Auxiliaries in Ancient Greek: Grammaticalization and Diachronic Collocation Shifts, Indogermanische Forschungen 125 (1), 135–64. PDF
2020. The Variation of Classical Greek Wishes: A Functional Discourse Grammar and Common Ground approach. Glotta 96 (1), 213–45. PDF
2019. Epistemic Modality, Particles and the Potential Optative in Classical Greek. Journal of Greek Linguistics 19 (1), 58–89. PDF
2018. with M. Kruijer. Paradigmatic Possibilities as Perspective for Absolute Constructions: Exploring Linguistic Differences between the Greek Genitive and Latin Ablative Absolute. Mnemosyne 71 (5), 799–822. PDF
Book Chapters
accepted, exp. 2026. Insubordination pathways in three millennia of Greek: sources, analogical changes and pragmatic enrichment. Pathways of Insubordination. Typological Studies in Languages (TSL). E. la Roi, M.S. Sansiñena, & A. Van linden. John Benjamins.
accepted, exp. 2026. with M. S. Sansiñena and A. Van linden. Insubordinate hypothetical comparison clauses from Latin to Spanish: quasi to como si. Pathways of Insubordination. Typological Studies in Languages (TSL). E. la Roi, M.S. Sansiñena, & A. Van linden. John Benjamins.
accepted, exp. 2026. The Metaphorical Pathways of Performatives for Intersubjective Space. The Evidence from Greek, Latin and Romance. Conceptual Metaphors in Ancient Indo-European Languages: Comparative perspectives. L. van Beek and D. Kölligan. De Gruyter.
accepted, exp. 2026. Contextualizing Counterfactual Patterns in Post-Classical Greek texts: Forms, Functions and Contexts. What if? Counterfactual Approaches to Imperial and Byzantine Literature. A. Quiroga (ed.). Peter Lang.
accepted, exp. 2026. Between Dialogic and Diachronic Syntax: the Insubordination of Directive ὅπως in Classical Greek drama. Conversation Analysis and Classics. Talk-in-Interaction in Greek and Latin Literature, R. Verano Liaño (ed.), Brill.
accepted, exp. 2026. The Historical Pragmatics of Greetings in Post-Classical Greek. G. di Bartolo, D. Kölligan, P. Filos & G. K. Giannakis. Studies in Postclassical Greek: Forms, Structures and Uses. De Gruyter.
accepted, exp. 2026. The Intersubjectification of Vision as Interactional Thought: Vision Imperatives in Ancient Greek Diachrony. Verbs of Thought and Speech. Pragmaticalization paths across languages. A. Pardal (ed.). John Benjamins.
in press, 2026. Aspect, Actionality and Pragmatics in the Life Cycles of Counterfactual Conditionals: The Evidence from Ancient Greek Diachrony (VIII - I BCE). Tense and Aspect in Counterfactuals. G. Sharma & M. Ippolito. De Gruyter.
in press, exp. 2026. Modal Morphosyntax in the Septuagint within the History of Post-Classical Greek. Postclassical Greek and Cultural Identity in the Septuagint; In Memoriam: James K. Aitken (1968-2023). A. T. Keenan and R. S. Walker. De Gruyter.
in press, exp. 2026. with K. Bentein. Contact-induced Insubordination in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint and the New Testament. Postclassical Greek and Cultural Identity in the Septuagint; In Memoriam: James K. Aitken (1968-2023). A. T. Keenan and R. S. Walker. De Gruyter.
2026. Habitual constructions in Ancient Greek. A layered approach to habitual constructions. S. Gregersen & K. Hengeveld (eds.), 145-169. John Benjamins. PDF
2026. H. Fang, E. Fortuin, R. Genis, R. Giomi, S. Gregersen, K. Hengeveld, L. Kemp, P. Kyselica, E. la Roi, H. Olbertz, E. Stapert, J. van der Vliet, H. van der Voort, S. de Wit, A. Wolvengrey, E. Zakrzewska. A Layered Approach to Habitual Expressions: Typological Generalizations. A layered approach to habitual constructions. S. Gregersen & K. Hengeveld (eds.), 373-386. John Benjamins. PDF
2025. Rewriting the History of the Optative in the Post-Classical Greek Papyri and Literary Texts (III BCE - VI CE): Persistence, Formulae and Innovation. In K. Bentein & M. Vierros (eds.), Rays of Language: Linguistic Perspectives on Non-Literary Papyri and Related Sources, 199-229. Helsinki University Press. PDF
2025. Dangling between Diachrony, Register and Atticism: A Language Ecology Approach to Modal Morphosyntax in Post-Classical Greek. Advances in Ancient Greek Linguistics. J. de la Villa, A. Striano and R. Verano Liaño (eds.), 373-387. De Gruyter. PDF
2025. K. Bentein, E. Cattafi, E. la Roi. Unraveling Post-classical (in)subordination: From syntax to context. Subordination and Insubordination in Post-Classical Greek: from Syntax to Context. K. Bentein, E. Cattafi, E. la Roi (eds.), 1-9. De Gruyter. PDF
2025. Correlating Morphosyntactic Stability, Change, Register and Context of Use in Post-Classical Greek: The case of Insubordinate Wishes. Subordination and Insubordination in Post-Classical Greek: From Syntax to Context. K. Bentein, E. Cattafi, E. la Roi (eds.), 179-207. De Gruyter. PDF
2025. The Counterfactual Life Cycle: Cyclicity, Pragmatics and Modality. Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse. Hansen, M-B.M. & R. Waltereit (eds.), 155-179. OUP. PDF
2025. Connecting Intersubjectivity, Politeness and Stance with Wishes in the Post-Classical Greek papyri. Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings. K. Bentein (ed.), 69–93. Lexis. PDF
- 2023. A Pragmatic Syntax of Counterfactual Mood Attraction and Mood (A)Symmetry from Archaic to Classical Greek. Building Modality with Syntax. Focus on Ancient Greek, C. Denizot & L. Tronci (eds.), 193–220. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. PDF
2018. Shifting Responsibilities. Thucydides on Losing to Brasidas. Conflicts in Antiquity: Textual and Material Perspectives, D. van Diemen, D. van Dokkum, A. van Leuken, A. Nijenhuis, and F. A. van der Sande (eds.), 41–61. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Invited Encyclopedia Entries
in press, exp. 2026. Insubordination. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.). Brill.
in press, exp. 2026. Grammars of the Greek Language, Medieval Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.). Brill.
2025. with K. Bentein. Mood and modality, Post-Classical Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.), Brill.
2025. Mood and Modality, Medieval Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.). Brill.
2025. Speech Acts, Medieval Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.). Brill. PDF
2025. Orders (Imperatives/Prohibitives), Medieval Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.). Brill. PDF
2025. Pathways of Subjectification and Intersubjectification. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition. H. Nesi and P. Milin. Elsevier. PDF
2024. Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.), Brill. PDF
2024. Counterfactuals in Post Classical Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.), Brill. PDF
2024. Habituals in Ancient Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.), Brill. PDF
Review articles
forthc. Holton and Manolessou. The Greek Language after Antiquity: Advances and Challenges in Historical Linguistics. BMCR
2024. Fresch. Discourse Markers in Early Koine Greek: Cognitive-Functional Analysis and LXX Translation Technique. Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies 57, 279-281. PDF
2024. Arzt-Grabner. Letters and Letter Writing. BMCR. PDF
2023. Unceta Gómez and Berger. Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin. BMCR.
2022. Givón. The Life Cycle of Adpositions. Linguistlist
2020. A Rephilologized Diachronic Analysis of ‘Post-Classical Greek’: Pitfalls and Principles for Progress. Journal of Greek Linguistics 20 (2), 213–38.
Blogs
2022. Writing Wishes. Back to the future with the papyri. Public outreach blogpost for ERC project Everyday Writing in Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt.
in press, 2025. The Life Cycles of Counterfactuals from Latin to Romance: Moods, modal verbs and their diachronies. Linguarum Varietas. Special issue on Modality in Latin, edited by Anna Orlandini, Paolo Poccetti and Carlotta Viti. PDF
2025. Van smeken naar 'asjeblieft' in het Oudgrieks: de Historische Pragmatiek van performatieve taalhandelingen. Lampas 58 (4), 359-381. [ From begging to 'please' in Ancient Greek: the historical pragmatics of performative speech acts, article for the Dutch journal of Classics] PDF
2025. Sources and Methods for Detecting Language change from above and below in Post-Classical Greek and Latin. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 11 (1), 173-201 PDF
2024. with E. Roumanis. Unpacking the Norms of Atticism: impersonal modality and the negotiation of overt prestige in the Atticist lexicographers. Graeco-Latina Brunensia 29 (2), 59-77. PDF
2024. The Impact of Insubordination on the history of Greek: cross-linguistic connections, morphosyntactic innovations and pragmatic spread in the mood system. Journal of Greek Linguistics 24 (2), 290-322. PDF.
2024. The Life Cycles of Counterfactual Mood in Indo-European languages: the inherited counterfactual functions of the optative and its replacements through time. Indogermanische Forschungen 129, 241-280. PDF
2024. The Life Cycles of Counterfactual Modal Verbs in Ancient Greek: Temporal Reference Shift, Language Ecology and Analogy. Classical Philology 119 (4), 502-527. PDF
2024. Polarity Reversal Constructions and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek: Between Implicature and Conventionalization. Journal of Historical Linguistics 14 (2), 335-375. Published online 30.03.2023. PDF
2023. Down the Paths to the Past Habitual: its Historical Connections with counterfactual Pasts, Future in the Pasts, Iteratives and Lexical Sources in Ancient Greek. Folia Linguistica Historica 56 (44), 87-116. Published online since 24.10.2022. PDF
2022. The Pragmatics of the Past: a Novel Typology of Conditionals with Past Tenses in Ancient Greek, Listy Filologicke 144 (3-4), 263-306. PDF
2022. Towards a chronology of the Modal Particles: The Diachronic Spread in the Ancient Greek Mood System. Graeco-Latina Brunensia 27(2), 113-135. PDF
2022. The Secondary Interjections εἶεν and εἶἑν as Fossilized Wish Optatives: a Conversation Analysis Approach. Emerita: Revista de Lingüística y Filología Clásica 90 (2), 253–280. PDF
2022. The Atticist lexica as Metalinguistic Resource for Morphosyntactic change in Post-Classical Greek. Journal of Greek Linguistics 22(2), 199–231. PDF
2022. Interlocked Life Cycles of Counterfactual Mood Forms from Archaic to Classical Greek: Aspect, Actionality and Changing Temporal Reference. Indogermanische Forschungen 127, 235–282. PDF
2022. Insubordination in Archaic and Classical Latin: Commands, Requests, Wishes and Assertives. Journal of Latin Linguistics 21 (1), 23–45. PDF
2022. Weaving Together the Diverse Threads of Category Change: Intersubjective Ἀμέλει ‘of course!’ and Imperative Particles in Ancient Greek. Diachronica 39 (2), 151–192. PDF
2021. The Insubordination of If- and That-Clauses from Archaic to Post-Classical Greek: ADiachronic Constructional Typology. Symbolae Osloenses 95, 2–64. PDF
2020. The Development of Εὑρίσκω ‘Find’ as Evidence towards a Diachronic Solution of the Matching-Problem in Ancient Greek Complementation. Philologia Classica 15 (2), 191–207. PDF
2020. A Rephilologized Diachronic Analysis of ‘Post-Classical Greek’: Pitfalls and Principles for Progress. Journal of Greek Linguistics 20 (2), 213–38. PDF
2020. Habitual Auxiliaries in Ancient Greek: Grammaticalization and Diachronic Collocation Shifts, Indogermanische Forschungen 125 (1), 135–64. PDF
2020. The Variation of Classical Greek Wishes: A Functional Discourse Grammar and Common Ground approach. Glotta 96 (1), 213–45. PDF
2019. Epistemic Modality, Particles and the Potential Optative in Classical Greek. Journal of Greek Linguistics 19 (1), 58–89. PDF
2018. with M. Kruijer. Paradigmatic Possibilities as Perspective for Absolute Constructions: Exploring Linguistic Differences between the Greek Genitive and Latin Ablative Absolute. Mnemosyne 71 (5), 799–822. PDF
accepted, exp. 2026. Insubordination pathways in three millennia of Greek: sources, analogical changes and pragmatic enrichment. Pathways of Insubordination. Typological Studies in Languages (TSL). E. la Roi, M.S. Sansiñena, & A. Van linden. John Benjamins.
accepted, exp. 2026. with M. S. Sansiñena and A. Van linden. Insubordinate hypothetical comparison clauses from Latin to Spanish: quasi to como si. Pathways of Insubordination. Typological Studies in Languages (TSL). E. la Roi, M.S. Sansiñena, & A. Van linden. John Benjamins.
accepted, exp. 2026. The Metaphorical Pathways of Performatives for Intersubjective Space. The Evidence from Greek, Latin and Romance. Conceptual Metaphors in Ancient Indo-European Languages: Comparative perspectives. L. van Beek and D. Kölligan. De Gruyter.
accepted, exp. 2026. Contextualizing Counterfactual Patterns in Post-Classical Greek texts: Forms, Functions and Contexts. What if? Counterfactual Approaches to Imperial and Byzantine Literature. A. Quiroga (ed.). Peter Lang.
accepted, exp. 2026. Between Dialogic and Diachronic Syntax: the Insubordination of Directive ὅπως in Classical Greek drama. Conversation Analysis and Classics. Talk-in-Interaction in Greek and Latin Literature, R. Verano Liaño (ed.), Brill.
accepted, exp. 2026. The Historical Pragmatics of Greetings in Post-Classical Greek. G. di Bartolo, D. Kölligan, P. Filos & G. K. Giannakis. Studies in Postclassical Greek: Forms, Structures and Uses. De Gruyter.
accepted, exp. 2026. The Intersubjectification of Vision as Interactional Thought: Vision Imperatives in Ancient Greek Diachrony. Verbs of Thought and Speech. Pragmaticalization paths across languages. A. Pardal (ed.). John Benjamins.
in press, 2026. Aspect, Actionality and Pragmatics in the Life Cycles of Counterfactual Conditionals: The Evidence from Ancient Greek Diachrony (VIII - I BCE). Tense and Aspect in Counterfactuals. G. Sharma & M. Ippolito. De Gruyter.
in press, exp. 2026. Modal Morphosyntax in the Septuagint within the History of Post-Classical Greek. Postclassical Greek and Cultural Identity in the Septuagint; In Memoriam: James K. Aitken (1968-2023). A. T. Keenan and R. S. Walker. De Gruyter.
in press, exp. 2026. with K. Bentein. Contact-induced Insubordination in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint and the New Testament. Postclassical Greek and Cultural Identity in the Septuagint; In Memoriam: James K. Aitken (1968-2023). A. T. Keenan and R. S. Walker. De Gruyter.
2026. Habitual constructions in Ancient Greek. A layered approach to habitual constructions. S. Gregersen & K. Hengeveld (eds.), 145-169. John Benjamins. PDF
2026. H. Fang, E. Fortuin, R. Genis, R. Giomi, S. Gregersen, K. Hengeveld, L. Kemp, P. Kyselica, E. la Roi, H. Olbertz, E. Stapert, J. van der Vliet, H. van der Voort, S. de Wit, A. Wolvengrey, E. Zakrzewska. A Layered Approach to Habitual Expressions: Typological Generalizations. A layered approach to habitual constructions. S. Gregersen & K. Hengeveld (eds.), 373-386. John Benjamins. PDF
2025. Rewriting the History of the Optative in the Post-Classical Greek Papyri and Literary Texts (III BCE - VI CE): Persistence, Formulae and Innovation. In K. Bentein & M. Vierros (eds.), Rays of Language: Linguistic Perspectives on Non-Literary Papyri and Related Sources, 199-229. Helsinki University Press. PDF
2025. Dangling between Diachrony, Register and Atticism: A Language Ecology Approach to Modal Morphosyntax in Post-Classical Greek. Advances in Ancient Greek Linguistics. J. de la Villa, A. Striano and R. Verano Liaño (eds.), 373-387. De Gruyter. PDF
2025. K. Bentein, E. Cattafi, E. la Roi. Unraveling Post-classical (in)subordination: From syntax to context. Subordination and Insubordination in Post-Classical Greek: from Syntax to Context. K. Bentein, E. Cattafi, E. la Roi (eds.), 1-9. De Gruyter. PDF
2025. Correlating Morphosyntactic Stability, Change, Register and Context of Use in Post-Classical Greek: The case of Insubordinate Wishes. Subordination and Insubordination in Post-Classical Greek: From Syntax to Context. K. Bentein, E. Cattafi, E. la Roi (eds.), 179-207. De Gruyter. PDF
2025. The Counterfactual Life Cycle: Cyclicity, Pragmatics and Modality. Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse. Hansen, M-B.M. & R. Waltereit (eds.), 155-179. OUP. PDF
2025. Connecting Intersubjectivity, Politeness and Stance with Wishes in the Post-Classical Greek papyri. Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings. K. Bentein (ed.), 69–93. Lexis. PDF
2018. Shifting Responsibilities. Thucydides on Losing to Brasidas. Conflicts in Antiquity: Textual and Material Perspectives, D. van Diemen, D. van Dokkum, A. van Leuken, A. Nijenhuis, and F. A. van der Sande (eds.), 41–61. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
in press, exp. 2026. Insubordination. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.). Brill.
in press, exp. 2026. Grammars of the Greek Language, Medieval Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.). Brill.
2025. with K. Bentein. Mood and modality, Post-Classical Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.), Brill.
2025. Mood and Modality, Medieval Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.). Brill.
2025. Speech Acts, Medieval Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.). Brill. PDF
2025. Orders (Imperatives/Prohibitives), Medieval Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.). Brill. PDF
2025. Pathways of Subjectification and Intersubjectification. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition. H. Nesi and P. Milin. Elsevier. PDF
2024. Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.), Brill. PDF
2024. Counterfactuals in Post Classical Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.), Brill. PDF
2024. Habituals in Ancient Greek. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. D. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos (eds.), Brill. PDF
forthc. Holton and Manolessou. The Greek Language after Antiquity: Advances and Challenges in Historical Linguistics. BMCR
2024. Fresch. Discourse Markers in Early Koine Greek: Cognitive-Functional Analysis and LXX Translation Technique. Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies 57, 279-281. PDF
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