A Probe into Modern Life Philosophy in Greek Legend

Ancient greek philosophy and modern psychiatry.

Word in Modern Greek

A Probe into the Concept of Friendship in the Qur’ān

The topic of human relationships—be they positive and sympathetic, or negative and hostile—receives a great amount of attention in the Qur’ān. Human beings need to be aware of both their friends and their enemies in order to learn how to engage with both groups, how to make additional friends and defend themselves from harm caused by enemies, and, if possible, turn these enemies into friends. T...

A Non-Bleeding Rule in Modern Greek*

Sakellariades 1985 (Glotta 63) proposes two synchronic phonological rules for northern Modern Greek dialects, Glide Formation (GF) and High Vowel Deletion (HVD), and suggests GF as "a characteristic case of a bleeding rule". Closer examination, however, shows that S's formulation of HVD is flawed, and that the rule's environment must refer to the need for consonants adjacent to the vowel. Evide...

Verbal Dvandvas in Modern Greek

While Greek is rich in compounds, one familiar type from Indo-European, namely dvandva compounds meaning 'X and Y', is essentially nonexistent in Ancient Greek. However, such compounds start occurring in post-Classical Greek and are fairly productive by early Modern Greek. The innovative dvandvas involve nouns, a type well attested elsewhere in Indo-European, but also verbs, such as aniγo-klino...