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