Helma Dik

Helma Dik

Helma Dik (Ph.D. University of Amsterdam, 1994) is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and the College. She is the author of Word Order in Ancient Greek and Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue, and articles on the functional grammar of Greek. Her teaching and research are focused on the Greek language, incorporating insights from general linguistics and functionalist frameworks especially. Her main long-term project is a Syntax of Classical Greek, but her current interests also include the application of data mining techniques to classical texts and digital humanities in the age of Google more generally. She received the Quantrell Teaching Award for 2006.

Contact

Department of Classics
1115 E. 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637

email: helmadikATuchicago.edu
website/cv: http://cybergreek.uchicago.edu/index.html/

additional: Nifty Greek Handouts

Honors and Awards

  • Grant from Perseus Project (in the framework of an NSF grant) for developing an alternative interface to Perseus Project classical materials. ($18,000)
  • Grant from Loeb Classical Library Foundation for Greek Syntax Project ($30,000) (toward a sabbatical leave for 2006-07)
  • Grant from Women's Board of the University of Chicago for hardware, and technical and research assistance with Greek Syntax Project (2006-07: $20,860)
  • Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awardfor Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
  • Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 2000-2001.
  • Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, 1996-7
  • Fellowship at the Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos, from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), 1996
  • Graduate fellowship, University of Amsterdam, 1989-1994

Publications

Monographs

    Word Order in Ancient Greek. A Pragmatic Account of Word Order Variation in Herodotus. Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 5. Amsterdam: Gieben, 1995. xii, 294 pp. Review in BMCR.
  • Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue, Oxford University Press. (2007)

Articles and Contributions to Edited Volumes

  • "On Unemphatic 'Emphatic' Pronouns in Greek: Nominative pronouns in Plato and Sophocles", Mnemosyne 2003.
  • "Words into Verse: The Localization of Some Metrical Word-Types in the Iambic Trimeter of Sophocles", ICS 23 (1998), pp. 47-84. PDF versions: US letter and EUA4 format.
  • Hommage à Milman Parry, Actes du Colloque Milman Parry, edited with Françoise Létoublon, Amsterdam: Gieben, 1998.xii, 414 pp.
  • 'Interpreting adjective position in Herodotus', in E.J. Bakker (ed.), Grammar as Interpretation, Leiden: Brill, 1997, 55-76. Review in BMCR.
  • Entries for the letter rho of the Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos, forthcoming.
  • 'Ancient Greek warfare - a case study in constituent ordering', in E. Engberg-Pedersen et al., eds., Function and Expression in Functional Grammar (Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994), 197-213.
  • 'Vrij maar niet willekeurig: Pragmatische aspecten van constituentvolgorde in twee fragmenten uit Herodotus', in Lampas 27.3 (1994), 252-269.
  • 'Gekloofde zinnen langs de lijn', in F.G. van Werkgem, Dubbel Nederlands. Dordrecht: ICG, 1994.
  • 'Senex: een case-study uit de oudheid', in G. Bakkum et al., eds., Pentecostalia. Bundel ter gelegenheid van de vijftigste verjaardag van Harm Pinkster (Amsterdam, 1992), 23-32.

Reviews

  • Review of Andrew M. Devine & Laurence Stephens, Discontinuous Syntax, CW 94 (2001): 408-409.
  • Review of Karin Kulneff-Eriksson, On 'have' in Ancient Greek, in BMCR 1999.11.25.
  • Review of Eleanor Dickey, Greek Forms of Address, in BMCR 1997.11.09.

Most Recent Courses Taught

  • Introductory Greek (101, 102, 111, 112)
  • Intermediate Greek (201, 202)
  • Greek Prose Survey (328)
  • Greek Prose Composition (344)
  • Herodotus