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Between migration and linguistics: Greeks in Western Europe and the emergence of contrastive grammar in the Renaissance (c.1390–1600)

Descrizione del progetto

L’ascesa della grammatica contrastiva nel Medioevo

Nonostante le preoccupazioni odierne sulle sfide poste dalla migrazione, la storia rivela come questa possa rappresentare nuove opportunità e avere un impatto positivo. Il flusso migratorio dall’impero greco bizantino in Europa verificatosi nel tardo Medioevo, e in particolare dopo la caduta di Costantinopoli, ha rappresentato una prima grande fuga di cervelli dall’Oriente verso l’Occidente. Gli europei occidentali hanno incontrato una nuova cultura e una nuova lingua con una ricca tradizione culturale e grammaticale. Il progetto MigraLing, finanziato dall’UE, studierà l’impatto che i migranti hanno avuto sulla trasformazione della grammatica da una conoscenza specialistica monolingue latino-centrica a una disciplina multilingue, tenendo conto che l’insegnamento della lingua greca ha portato a un accesso di tipo contrastivo agli studi linguistici.

Obiettivo

Migration and its societal impact have never been higher on the agenda than in our globalized world, which is why it features prominently in the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 13. It is a challenge that not only poses problems, but also offers opportunities in various ways. The possibility of a positive impact of migration often tends to be neglected in present-day debates. History, however, demonstrates that optimistic expectations should not necessarily remain unattainable. The crumbling apart of the Byzantine Greek empire in the late Middle Ages, for instance, engendered a steady influx of Greek migrants into Western Europe during the Renaissance. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 further stimulated this population movement, triggering a first major brain drain from the Greek world. This confronted Western Europeans not only with another culture, but also with another language boasting a rich cultural and grammatical tradition, the full impact of which remains to be investigated. The proposed action aims to counter this state of affairs by studying an important linguistic dimension of this vast research lacuna: the way in which the Greek migrants contributed to transforming grammar from a monolingual, Latinocentric knowledge domain to a multilingual and flexible discipline. Indeed, their intensive teaching of the Greek language and its grammar was a key turning point in the history of linguistic thought, since it gave rise to a contrastive approach to language studies and education. It is this revolutionary development which the action intends to analyse by investigating Renaissance linguistic handbooks. In particular, it aims to study (A) how and why contrastive grammar emerged in the wake of Greek migration movements during the Renaissance, (B) how this related to the Greek migrants' teaching of Western European students, both male and female, and (C) what the impact of this new genre of language study was on later linguistic thought and praxis.

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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

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Coordinatore

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 214 158,72
Indirizzo
PROBLEMVEIEN 5-7
0313 Oslo
Norvegia
Regione
Norge Oslo og Viken Oslo
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 214 158,72