The past year or so has been a momentous time for Greek linguists in various ways.
First, there were a number of sad events, as several very senior and prominent Greek linguists passed away. In our November 2023 issue (JGL 23.2), we noted Eirene Philippaki-Warburtonâs passing in late August of that year, and an obituary chronicling her influential and important career is included in the present issue. And, in the May issue (JGL 24.1), we reported the loss as well of Panagiotis Kontos, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA), who passed away on March 28 of this year. Finally, we also note the recent loss just this past August of Dimitra Theofanopoulou-Kontou, Professor of Linguistics also at EKPA, wife of Kontos and a major figure in the field in her own right who inspired several academic generations of Greek linguists with her important works connecting Greek to linguistic theory; an obituary on her is planned for the May 2025 issue (JGL 25.1).
Second, a positive development is that the International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL) re-emerged from the pandemic and was held once again as a live, in-person event, as its 16th instantiation took place in December 2023 in Thessaloniki. During the pandemic, a very successful but online-only (virtual) ICGLÂ 15 was organized and hosted by the Department of Modern Greek Studies of the University of Belgrade, but all in Thessaloniki agreed that an in-person affair was preferable, and the robust attendance showed that the Greek linguistic world was ready for that return to normalcy.
Third, we are able to present here another issue with several interesting and informative papers. This current issue is a true
Finally, a few comments on the future. Our publisher, Brill, has merged with De Gruyter to become De Gruyter Brill, and further, as a cost-saving move that reflects what the state of journal publishing is now and where it is headed in the years to come, JGL will be moving to an online-only delivery. Neither of these developments will affect the journal in any appreciable way, the corporate development because it is too far removed from the journal itself, and the online-only development because most readers of the journal avail themselves of the open access online version. In addition, as we near the first quarter century for the journal, we can report that the journal is healthy, as measured by what is in the offingâtwo special issues are in the works, and several other papers are under review, ensuring that we will be continuing our mission of bringing our readers cutting-edge research on our favorite language.
Dag T.T. Haug, Brian D. Joseph and Anna Roussou
5Â November 2024
