Claude Brixhe

Claude Brixhe is a French linguist who is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Nancy in France.[1] His research interests include ancient and modern Greek dialects, Koine Greek, the history of the Greek alphabet, and non-Greek Anatolian languages.[2]

Koine Greek

In a 1993 article, Brixhe wrote about the influence of koine on the Doric dialect Cretan. He studied Cretan inscriptions from the Hellenistic period and substantiated the presence of forms that were a product of linguistic admixture, as well as those that could be attributed to koine. Araceli Striano writes: "This fact highlighted something which scholars had already suspected: koine did not suddenly replace the local dialects nor did those dialects disappear abruptly. On the contrary, the process of linguistic leveling in the Greek-speaking world was rather gradual, fostering the emergence of standard local varieties with their own distinctive particularities due to the coexistence of koine and different variants of ancient Greek."[3]

References
  1. "Brixhe Claude". Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  2. Bakker, Egbert J. (2010-01-28). A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4443-1740-4.
  3. Striano, Araceli (2017-12-18). "Koiné, Koiná, Koinaí: Are we Talking About the Same Thing?". In Georgios Giannakis; Emilio Crespo; Panagiotis Filos (eds.). Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-053213-5. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
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