Nick Nicholas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6013530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Nicholas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholas |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLAS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The effect of Italo-Romance contact on the Greek cluster vɣ in Corsica and the implications for sound change in Italiot Greek in Southern Italy
In this study we describe a change in the phonotactic structure of Corsican or Cargese Greek, involving the historical cluster /vɣ/, and relate it to contact with local Italo-Romance (Corsican). While the change in Cargese is seen to be very limited in scope, it provides a useful key to a better understanding of a similar but more complex series of changes in Greek dialects spoken in another Italo-Romance contact situation some distance away in S…
Negotiating a Greco-Corsican Identity
The Greek settlement in Corsica, dating from 1676, is remarkable among the colonies of its time for its very slow assimilation—a process that did not become irreversible until two centuries later, with some sense of Greek identity persisting to this day. However, while past commentators have interpreted this as indicating undying loyalty to Greece, the Greco-Corsican construction of identity has been rather more precarious. To establish how and t…
Pu-based Greek Rude Negators
This paper describes the distribution and typology of Greek Rude Negators: a colloquial, productive class of expressions based on the factive connective pu, whose illocutionary effect is emotive and denegatory, comparable to English Rude Negators (e.g. the hell I will). The semantics of this class, and even whether it denies or affirms its referent, is to a large extent motivated by implicature, and by the strength (appropriateness) of the invect…
Robert Ingria, 1953–2003
The Rise and Fall of Modern Greek in Australia’s Universities
In this article, we look at the state of Modern Greek in Australian universities, focusing on quantitative analysis of its rise and fall in the relatively short period of 35 years since it was first taught as a university subject in Australia. We consider the possible reasons behind this trajectory, in particular correlations with changing demography and a concomitant decline in the study of Greek in the secondary sector. We also ponder the futur…
Folk Functionalism in Artificial Languages
A notion which underlies much functionalist thinking on language is that language is a system whose structure is engineered to solve problems in communication. Artificial languages are of particular interest in this regard,because such problem solving can be undertaken consciously on the part of both language planners and (to the extent that the language community allows it) language users,enabling the linguistic structure to adapt to their commu…
To ̔́Aπερ and O Oπoιoς untangling mediaeval greek relativisation
Repeat Abortions in New York City
Use of conception control methods before pregnancies terminating in birth or a requested abortion in New York City municipal hospitals
Approximately 70,000 general service patients receive postpartum and preabortal counseling on contraceptive methods each year in 30 voluntary and municipal hospitals in New York City. A survey in 1971 showed that the younger the patient, the less likely she has used contraception in the 2 years prior to pregnancy. Also, patients terminating their 1st pregnancy by birth or abortion are the least likely to have used any contraception in the last 2 …
Negotiating a Greco-Corsican Identity
The Greek settlement in Corsica, dating from 1676, is remarkable among the colonies of its time for its very slow assimilation—a process that did not become irreversible until two centuries later, with some sense of Greek identity persisting to this day. However, while past commentators have interpreted this as indicating undying loyalty to Greece, the Greco-Corsican construction of identity has been rather more precarious. To establish how and t…
Use of conception control methods before pregnancies terminating in birth or a requested abortion in New York City municipal hospitals
Approximately 70,000 general service patients receive postpartum and preabortal counseling on contraceptive methods each year in 30 voluntary and municipal hospitals in New York City. A survey in 1971 showed that the younger the patient, the less likely she has used contraception in the 2 years prior to pregnancy. Also, patients terminating their 1st pregnancy by birth or abortion are the least likely to have used any contraception in the last 2 …
The Rise and Fall of Modern Greek in Australia’s Universities
In this article, we look at the state of Modern Greek in Australian universities, focusing on quantitative analysis of its rise and fall in the relatively short period of 35 years since it was first taught as a university subject in Australia. We consider the possible reasons behind this trajectory, in particular correlations with changing demography and a concomitant decline in the study of Greek in the secondary sector. We also ponder the futur…
Use of conception control methods before pregnancies terminating in birth or a requested abortion in New York City municipal hospitals
Approximately 70,000 general service patients receive postpartum and preabortal counseling on contraceptive methods each year in 30 voluntary and municipal hospitals in New York City. A survey in 1971 showed that the younger the patient, the less likely she has used contraception in the 2 years prior to pregnancy. Also, patients terminating their 1st pregnancy by birth or abortion are the least likely to have used any contraception in the last 2 …
Repeat Abortions in New York City
To ̔́Aπερ and O Oπoιoς untangling mediaeval greek relativisation
Folk Functionalism in Artificial Languages
A notion which underlies much functionalist thinking on language is that language is a system whose structure is engineered to solve problems in communication. Artificial languages are of particular interest in this regard,because such problem solving can be undertaken consciously on the part of both language planners and (to the extent that the language community allows it) language users,enabling the linguistic structure to adapt to their commu…
The Rise and Fall of Modern Greek in Australia’s Universities
In this article, we look at the state of Modern Greek in Australian universities, focusing on quantitative analysis of its rise and fall in the relatively short period of 35 years since it was first taught as a university subject in Australia. We consider the possible reasons behind this trajectory, in particular correlations with changing demography and a concomitant decline in the study of Greek in the secondary sector. We also ponder the futur…
Pu-based Greek Rude Negators
This paper describes the distribution and typology of Greek Rude Negators: a colloquial, productive class of expressions based on the factive connective pu, whose illocutionary effect is emotive and denegatory, comparable to English Rude Negators (e.g. the hell I will). The semantics of this class, and even whether it denies or affirms its referent, is to a large extent motivated by implicature, and by the strength (appropriateness) of the invect…
Robert Ingria, 1953–2003
Negotiating a Greco-Corsican Identity
The Greek settlement in Corsica, dating from 1676, is remarkable among the colonies of its time for its very slow assimilation—a process that did not become irreversible until two centuries later, with some sense of Greek identity persisting to this day. However, while past commentators have interpreted this as indicating undying loyalty to Greece, the Greco-Corsican construction of identity has been rather more precarious. To establish how and t…
The effect of Italo-Romance contact on the Greek cluster vɣ in Corsica and the implications for sound change in Italiot Greek in Southern Italy
In this study we describe a change in the phonotactic structure of Corsican or Cargese Greek, involving the historical cluster /vɣ/, and relate it to contact with local Italo-Romance (Corsican). While the change in Cargese is seen to be very limited in scope, it provides a useful key to a better understanding of a similar but more complex series of changes in Greek dialects spoken in another Italo-Romance contact situation some distance away in S…
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