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Faculty of Classics

 

Research

In 2007 Dr Willmott published The Moods of Homeric Greek, an extended reworking of her PhD. Since her book, she has been researching further on various questions connected with mood and modality in the Greek language, using findings from grammaticalisation, comparative philology and generative syntax.  Two of her main recent research areas are negation and conditional sentences.

Publications

Key publications: 

The Moods of Homeric Greek (Cambridge 2007)

For full details of her papers, please visit www.jowillmott.co.uk

Affiliated Lecturer
Director of Studies in Classics (part 1) at Corpus Christi College
Dr Jo  Willmott

Contact Details

Queens' College
Silver St
Cambridge
CB3 9ET
Not available for consultancy

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