R.j. Allan
Professor
Department of Humanity
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Netherlands
Biography
I studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam and Comparative Linguistics at Leiden University. Since my PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2002, I have been teaching Ancient Greek language and literature at the Free University Amsterdam. I am particularly interested in Greek linguistics, especially verbal semantics (tense, aspect, mood, voice), historical linguistics (grammaticalisation), discourse analysis (particles, word order, text types) and the linguistic aspects of narrative (focalisation, immersion).
Research Interest
I teach on various subjects relating to Greek language and literature. I am currently supervising two PhD projects: Arjan Nijk ("The historical present: the view from Classical Greek") and Joachim Kraaij ("Exposing the Sophistic Fallacy: Plato's Euthydemus. A New Critical Edition with Philological Commentary").
Publications
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Tense and Aspect in Greek: Two Historical Developments; Augment and Perfect Allan, R. J. 2016 The Greek Verb Revisited. Runge, S. E. & Fresch, C. J. (eds.). Bellingham: Lexham Press, p. 81-121
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From Enargeia to Immersion.: The Ancient Roots of a Modern Concept Allan, R. J., De Jong, I. J. F. & De Jonge, C. C. 2016 In : Style. 51, 1, p. 34-51 18 p.
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The Imperfect Unbound: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Greek Aspect Allan, R. J. 2017 Variation and Change in Ancient Greek Tense, Aspect and Modality. Bentein, K., Janse, M. & Soltic, J. (eds.). Leiden/Boston: Brill, Vol. 23, p. 100-130 31 p. (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology; vol. 23)
