Resumen de An instance of triglossia?: Codeswitching as evidence for the present state of Greece’s ”language question”

Effie Papatzikou Cochran

• This paper traces the history of Greek diglossia from ancient times, noting that there have only been two periods when the language was not diglossic.

  Against this background, it examines a series of spontaneous oral dialogues recorded in 1994. Their codeswitching patterns are analyzed to discover what has happened to Greek diglossia since the government's establishment in 1976 of populär-Greek äs its official language. The paper's principal conclusion is that common modern Greek in the late twentieth Century has indeed ceased to be diglossic.