Mark Janse#
| Membership Number: | 6435 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://ugent.academia.edu/MarkJanse |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2824-3894 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/mark.janse.7/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - present Affiliated Researcher, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge
- 2023 - present Emeritus Research Professor in Ancient and Asia Minor Greek, Department of Linguistics, Ghent University
- 2008 - 2023 BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient and Asia Minor Greek, Department of Linguistics, Ghent University
- 2004 - 2008 Full Professor of Linguistics and Classics and Head of the Department of Arts and Humanities, University College Roosevelt, Middelburg
- 2003 - 2004 Visiting Professor, Department of Classics, University of Amsterdam
- 1996 - 2004 Visiting Professor, Department of Classics, Ghent University
- 1983 - 2004 Editor-in-Chief, Linguistic Bibliography, Permanent International Committee of Linguists / UNESCO
- 1982 - 1983 Assistant Editor, Linguistic Bibliography, Permanent International Committee of Linguists / UNESCO
Fields of Scholarship
- Modern Greek language and linguistics
- Cappadocian Greek
- Medieval Greek language and linguistics
- Pontic Greek
- Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic language and linguistics
- Modern Greek dialectology
- Language contact
- Language death and maintenance
- Ancient Latin language and linguistics
- Ancient Greek language and linguistics
- Historical linguistics
- Biblical Greek language and linguistics
Honours and Awards
- 2024: The Jeremie Septuagint Lecture, University of Cambridge
- 2023-present: Member, Academia Europaea
- 2022: The Gaisford Lecture, University of Oxford
- 2021: The Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture in South Slavic Linguistics, Ohio State University
- 2020: Investigador invitado, Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos
- 2019-present: Corresponding Fellow, Laboratory for Greek Dialectology, Ohio State University
- 2018: (First) Summer Institute Professor, Princeton Athens Center for Research & Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
- 2017-2020: Associate in Greek Linguistics, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University
- 2015: Category A1 Foreign Fellow (2nd election), Onassis Foundation (Greece)
- 2014: Visiting Fellow (2nd election), All Souls College, Oxford
- 2013: Visiting Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University
- 2013: Fellow, Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts
- 2012: Onassis Senior Visiting Scholar (University of Arizona, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford), Onassis Foundation (USA)
- 2011: Johannes Sundwall Award, Finnish Institute at Athens
- 2008: Category A1 Foreign Fellow (1st election), Onassis Foundation (Greece)
- 2007: Visiting Fellow (1st election), All Souls College, Oxford
- 2000: Co-founder and member of the permanent scientific committee of the international conferences on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT)
