Exploring linguistic hybridity and lexical creativity in the UK’s Greek Cypriot diaspora: the Grenglish project
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Karatsareas, P. and Charalambidou, A. 2021. Exploring linguistic hybridity and lexical creativity in the UK’s Greek Cypriot diaspora: the Grenglish project. Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes. No. 50 (2020), pp. 431-456. https://doi.org/10.4000/cchyp.532
Type | Article |
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Title | Exploring linguistic hybridity and lexical creativity in the UK’s Greek Cypriot diaspora: the Grenglish project |
Authors | Karatsareas, P. and Charalambidou, A. |
Abstract | We present findings from the Grenglish Project, a public engagement initiative that brought together members of the UK’s Greek Cypriot diaspora in a crowdsourcing effort to collect linguistic material that reflected the community’s linguistic history. After a brief sociohistorical overview of Cypriot migration to the UK, we present the types of material contributors submitted to the project website with reference to parallel developments in Greek migrant varieties spoken in other parts of the world. We focus on English loanwords that were integrated into the morphological system of Cypriot Greek by the addition of native derivational and inflectional suffixes like πάσον /páson/ ‘bus’ and πασέρης /paséris/ ‘bus driver’. We finally consider the implications of the project’s findings for the status of British Cypriot Greek as a variety on its own right and address the ideological and attitudinal factors that shape the prospects for its intergenerational transmission. |
Research Group | English Language and Literature |
Publisher | Centre d’Études Chypriotes |
École Française d’Athènes | |
Journal | Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes |
ISSN | 0761-8271 |
Electronic | 2647-7300 |
Publication dates | |
05 Oct 2021 | |
Sep 2021 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 08 Apr 2021 |
Accepted | 16 Mar 2021 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | |
Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Restricted |
Copyright Statement | © Centre d’Études Chypriotes, Lyon © École Française d’Athènes, Athènes |
Web address (URL) | https://journals.openedition.org/cchyp/532 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4000/cchyp.532 |
Language | English |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9782869585461 |
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