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Brill is delighted to announce a new Open Access collaboration with ‘Open Philology: The Composition of Buddhist Scriptures’ (OpenPhilology), funded by the European Research Council. The resulting book series Buddhist Open Philology Project will publish translations of scriptures, text editions, and studies on the select corpus of Mahāyāna Buddhist scriptures (sūtra), the Mahāratnakūṭa collection of 49 sūtras. All volumes in the series will be published in Open Access with Brill.
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Languages and Linguistics
The language of contracts and ledgers is a mixed register used in a variety of text genres, while it includes, to a different degree, various legal, financial, technical and general language elements. The Modern Greek language of contracts and ledgers is formulaic and includes numerous learned and archaic morphological, phonological and syntactic features, semantic peculiarities and set phrases, while the language of ledgers is elliptic as well, as it abounds in abbreviations and normally lacks verbal constructions. The language of contracts and ledgers tends to avoid loanwords, although specific genres, such as leasing and banking contracts, which are influenced by Anglo-Saxon traditions, contain many loanwords and loan abbreviations.
Although interlingual translations in Greek could have different motivations and arose in very different socio-cultural contexts, what should be noted in all cases is the fact that both the source varieties and the target varieties became indicators of the language behavior of the speech community. The different categories of diachronic intraTr document the complex relationship of the Greek speech community to its cultural and linguistic history. This relationship is characterized repeatedly, but not entirely continuously, also by the lack of insight that linguistic development is a natural state. In this sense, diachronic IntraTr seems, among others, to reflect the attitude of the Greek speech community towards language change, at least in part, either as a disapproval of this change or as its acceptance.
The article outlines the “relationality” between Modern Greek literature and various other national literatures through translation across time and situates Modern Greek literature in the global literary space.