Curriculum Vitae

Helma Dik
Associate Professor
Department of Classics and the College
University of Chicago

EDUCATION
Ph.D., March 31, 1995, University of Amsterdam. Dissertation: Word Order in Ancient Greek. A Pragmatic Account of Word Order Variation in Herodotus.
Graduate studies, University of Amsterdam, 1989-1994.
Degree of doctorandus in Classics, 1989 (awarded cum laude).
Studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam, 1984-1989.

PUBLICATIONS
Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue, Oxford University Press. (2007)
On Unemphatic “Emphatic” Pronouns in Greek: Nominative pronouns in Plato and Sophocles, Mnemosyne 2003.
Rev. of Andrew M. Devine & Laurence Stephens, Discontinuous Syntax, CW 94 (2001): 408-409.
'Words into Verse: The Localization of Some Metrical Word-Types in the Iambic Trimeter of Sophocles', ICS,23 (1998), pp. 47-84.
Rev. of Karin Kulneff-Eriksson, On 'have' in Ancient Greek, in BMCR 1999.11.25.
Hommage à Milman Parry, Actes du Colloque Milman Parry,edited with Françoise Létoublon, Amsterdam: Gieben, 1998.xii, 414 pp.
Rev. of Eleanor Dickey, Greek Forms of Address, in BMCR1997.11.09.
'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.
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.
'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.

PRESENTATIONS
"Mining Classical Greek Texts", Center for Computing and the Humanities, King's College London, August 2008.
"Bootstrapping Classical Greek Morphology", "Mining Classical Greek Gender", Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu (Finland), June 2008.
"Can Computers Learn Greek?", NY Classical Club Winter Conference, February 2008.
"GRADE: a Grammar Development Engine", Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. June 2007. (work with Harry Schmidt)
"Hoe waterdicht is een Griekse NP?" [Problems in the syntax of the Greek Noun Phrase], presented at Groningen workshop on the Noun Phrase, Sept. 2006.
"No single explanation: Meter and pragmatics in Sophoclean dialogue", Conference on the Language of Sophocles, Amsterdam, September 2003.
"The Greek we teach ain't what it used to be", at the APA-Philadelphia, Jan. 2002.
"Postpositive Mobiles", at conference "The New Look of Ancient Greek", UC-Berkeley, April 2002.
"On Unemphatic 'Emphatic' Pronouns in Greek", APA-Dallas, Dec. 1999.
"Tragic Ways of Killing", Greek Language and Linguistics Workshop at Berkeley, March 1999.
"The Position of the Adjective in Greek Prose", at the APA - San Diego, Dec. 1995.
"What's essential in Greek grammar? Evaluating graecitas in Greektextbooks". [in Dutch], at PALLAS conference of highschool teachers of Greek, Amsterdam, November 17, 1995.
"Word Order in Ancient Greek", at the Salzburg (Austria) and Trento (Italy) conferences on Greek linguistics, 22-25, 29-30 September 1995.
"Verb-initial clauses in Ancient Greek", at the 6th International Conference on Functional Grammar in York, 1994.
"The discourse function of word order in Classical Greek prose", at the 20th Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium,1991.
"Greek warfare: Word Order in Herodotus", at the 4th International Conference on Functional Grammar in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1990. (Published: 1994)

RECENT AWARDS AND GRANTS
Provost's Teaching Award, 2007-8.
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 Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2006.