Mark Janse (born 31 August 1959 in Sas van Gent, The Netherlands) is BOF-ZAP research professor in Asia Minor and Ancient Greek at Ghent University, where he studied

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, Hebrew and Linguistics. Before coming to Ghent, Janse has been editor of Linguistic Bibliography (1982-2004) and Professor of Linguistics and

and Head of the Department of Arts & Humanities at University College Roosevelt, an international honours college of Utrecht University (2004-2008). He is a former visiting fellow of the University of Amsterdam (2002-2004), All Souls College in Oxford (2007 & 2014), the

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in Greece (2008 & 2013) and the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University (2013-2014), a visiting professor at Ghent University (1996-2004), the University of Amsterdam (2003), Ohio State University (2004) and the University of Patras (2006-2009), and an Onassis Senior Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, the University of Arizona,

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and Princeton University (2012). He is a Research Associate of the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism at

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(since 2008) and CHS Associate in Greek Linguistics of the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University (since 2017). Janse's fields of research are Asia Minor and Ancient Greek,

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, language typology,

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, and language death, in both the ancient and the modern world, on which he has published numerous books and articles. In June 2005, Mark Janse and

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from the University of Patras discovered native speakers of Cappadocian Greek, a Greek-Turkish mixed language believed to have died out in the 1960s. He is a corresponding member of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies (CAMS) in Athens and of the Centre for Cappadocian Studies (CCS) in nea Karvali, a member of the scientific board of the Pan-Hellenic Union of Cappadocian Societies (PEKS), an honorary member of the Cappadocian Society of Evros "The Three Bisshops" (Οι Τρεις Ιεράρχες), and a regularly invited speaker at the annual Cappadocian Gavoustema.

References

External links

UGent Research PortalCHS webpagePEKS webpage
* Wikipedia article on Cappadocian
CAMS webpage
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