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Helma Dik

Associate Professor
Department of Classics and the College
University of Chicago
helmadikATuchicago.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., March 31, 1995. Dissertation: Word Order in Ancient Greek. A Pragmatic Account of Word Order Variation in Herodotus.
  • Graduate studies, University of Amsterdam, 1989-1994.
  • Degree of doctorandus in Classics, 1989 (awarded cum laude).
  • Studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam, 1984-1989.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue, Oxford University Press. (2007)
  • On Unemphatic “Emphatic” Pronouns in Greek: Nominative pronouns in Plato and Sophocles, Mnemosyne 2003.
  • Rev. of Andrew M. Devine & Laurence Stephens, Discontinuous Syntax, CW 94 (2001): 408-409.
  • 'Words into Verse: The Localization of Some Metrical Word-Types in the Iambic Trimeter of Sophocles', ICS,23 (1998), pp. 47-84. PDF versions: US letter and EUA4 format.
  • Rev. of Karin Kulneff-Eriksson, On 'have' in Ancient Greek, in BMCR 1999.11.25.
  • Hommage à Milman Parry, Actes du Colloque Milman Parry,edited with Françoise Létoublon, Amsterdam: Gieben, 1998.xii, 414 pp.
  • Rev. of Eleanor Dickey, Greek Forms of Address, in BMCR1997.11.09.
  • 'Interpreting adjective position in Herodotus', in E.J. Bakker (ed.),Grammar as Interpretation, Leiden: Brill, 1997, 55-76. Review in BMCR.
  • entries for the letter rho of the Lexikon des frühgriechischenEpos, forthcoming.
  • Word Order in Ancient Greek. A Pragmatic Account of Word Order Variation in Herodotus. (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, 5) Amsterdam: Gieben, 1995. xii, 294 pp.  Review in BMCR.
  • 'Ancient Greek warfare--a case study in constituent ordering', in E.Engberg-Pedersen et al., eds., Function and Expression in Functional Grammar (Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994), 197-213.
  • 'Vrij maar niet willekeurig: Pragmatische aspecten van constituentvolgorde in twee fragmenten uit Herodotus', in Lampas 27.3 (1994), 252-269.
  • 'Gekloofde zinnen langs de lijn', in F.G. van Werkgem, Dubbel Nederlands.Dordrecht: ICG, 1994.
  • 'Senex: een case-study uit de oudheid', in: G. Bakkum et al. (eds.),Pentecostalia. Bundel ter gelegenheid van de vijftigste verjaardag van Harm Pinkster(Amsterdam, 1992), 23-32.

PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES

  • "GRADE: a Grammar Development Engine", Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. June 2007.
  • "Hoe waterdicht is een Griekse NP?" [Problems in the syntax of the Greek Noun Phrase], presented at Groningen workshop on the Noun Phrase, Sept. 2006.
  • "No single explanation: Meter and pragmatics in Sophoclean dialogue", Conference on the Language of Sophocles, Amsterdam, September 2003.
  • "The Greek we teach ain't what it used to be", at the APA-Philadelphia, Jan. 2002.
  • "Postpositive Mobiles", at conference "The New Look of Ancient Greek", UC-Berkeley, April 2002.
  • "On Unemphatic 'Emphatic' Pronouns in Greek", APA-Dallas, Dec. 1999. The handout.
  • "Tragic Ways of Killing", Greek Language and Linguistics Workshop atBerkeley, March 1999.
  • "The Position of the Adjective in Greek Prose", at the APA - San Diego,Dec. 1995.
  • "What's essential in Greek grammar? Evaluating graecitas in Greektextbooks". [in Dutch], at PALLAS conference of highschool teachers ofGreek, Amsterdam, November 17, 1995.
  • "Word Order in Ancient Greek", at the Salzburg (Austria) and Trento(Italy) conferences on Greek linguistics, 22-25, 29-30 September 1995.
  • "Verb-initial clauses in Ancient Greek", at the 6th International Conferenceon Functional Grammar in York, 1994.
  • "The discourse function of word order in Classical Greek prose", atthe 20th Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium,1991.
  • "Greek warfare: Word Order in Herodotus", at the 4th International Conferenceon Functional Grammar in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1990. (Published: 1994)

AWARDS AND GRANTS

  • Grant from Perseus Project (in the framework of an NSF grant) for developing an alternative interface to Perseus Project classical materials. ($18,000)
  • Grant from Loeb Classical Library Foundation for Greek Syntax Project ($30,000) (toward a sabbatical leave for 2006-07)
  • Grant from Women's Board of the University of Chicago for hardware, and technical and research assistance with Greek Syntax Project (2006-07: $20,860)
  • Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
  • Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 2000-2001.
  • Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, 1996-7
  • Fellowship at the Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos, from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), 1996
  • Graduate fellowship, University of Amsterdam, 1989-1994



 
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