Peter Mackridge is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at Oxford, where he taught modern Greek language, literature, and culture from 1981, and Visiting Professor of Modern Greek at King's College London. He is the author of The Modern Greek Language (OUP 1985), and co-author of Greek: a Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language (Routledge 1997)) and Greek: an Essential Grammar of the Modern Language (Routledge 2004) all of which have been published in Greek.

Mackridge has absorbed [such] recent work not only in linguistics but also history and cultural studies and it informs his new book, which is the fruit of a whole career pondering the language. It is probably the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the development of the Greek language (or languages) since the late 18th century.

• Preface ; Transliteration from Greek and pronunciation of Greek Words ; Maps and illustrations ; Acknowledgements ; 1. Theoretical background ; 2. The preconditions for the Greek language controversy ; 3. The early stages of the controversy, 1766-1804 ; 4. Adamantios Korais as language reformer ; 5. Alternative proposals to Korais' project, 1804-1830 ; 6. Language in the two Greek states, 1830-1880 ; 7. The beginning of the demoticist campaign, 1880-1897 ; 8. Educational demoticism and political reform, 1897-1922 ; 9. The political polarization of the language question, 1922-1976 ; 10. Epilogue ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index

Peter Mackridge is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at Oxford, where he taught modern Greek language, literature, and culture from 1981, and Visiting Professor of Modern Greek at King's College London. He is the author of The Modern Greek Language (OUP 1985), and co-author of Greek: a Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language (Routledge 1997)) and Greek: an Essential Grammar of the Modern Language (Routledge 2004) all of which have been published in Greek.

Mackridge has absorbed [such] recent work not only in linguistics but also history and cultural studies and it informs his new book, which is the fruit of a whole career pondering the language. It is probably the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the development of the Greek language (or languages) since the late 18th century.

• Preface ; Transliteration from Greek and pronunciation of Greek Words ; Maps and illustrations ; Acknowledgements ; 1. Theoretical background ; 2. The preconditions for the Greek language controversy ; 3. The early stages of the controversy, 1766-1804 ; 4. Adamantios Korais as language reformer ; 5. Alternative proposals to Korais' project, 1804-1830 ; 6. Language in the two Greek states, 1830-1880 ; 7. The beginning of the demoticist campaign, 1880-1897 ; 8. Educational demoticism and political reform, 1897-1922 ; 9. The political polarization of the language question, 1922-1976 ; 10. Epilogue ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index

Peter Mackridge is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at Oxford, where he taught modern Greek language, literature, and culture from 1981, and Visiting Professor of Modern Greek at King's College London. He is the author of The Modern Greek Language (OUP 1985), and co-author of Greek: a Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language (Routledge 1997)) and Greek: an Essential Grammar of the Modern Language (Routledge 2004) all of which have been published in Greek.

Mackridge has absorbed [such] recent work not only in linguistics but also history and cultural studies and it informs his new book, which is the fruit of a whole career pondering the language. It is probably the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the development of the Greek language (or languages) since the late 18th century.

• Preface ; Transliteration from Greek and pronunciation of Greek Words ; Maps and illustrations ; Acknowledgements ; 1. Theoretical background ; 2. The preconditions for the Greek language controversy ; 3. The early stages of the controversy, 1766-1804 ; 4. Adamantios Korais as language reformer ; 5. Alternative proposals to Korais' project, 1804-1830 ; 6. Language in the two Greek states, 1830-1880 ; 7. The beginning of the demoticist campaign, 1880-1897 ; 8. Educational demoticism and political reform, 1897-1922 ; 9. The political polarization of the language question, 1922-1976 ; 10. Epilogue ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index