Brian D. Joseph

The Dialects of Lesvos and Adrianople: Similarities and Differences and What They Tell Us About Dialectal Variation in Greek

The Greek dialects of Lesvos and Adrianople (present-day Edirne) during the time of the Ottoman Empire have much in common. Both are northern dialects and show considerable influence from Turkish; moreover, both were documented in the early 20th century, before the fall of the Ottoman Empire, by Kretschmer, in 1905, fo...