Thanasis Costakis RIP

By: Nick Nicholas | Post date: 2009-08-07 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek
Tags: history of linguistics, Tsakonian

Thanasis Costakis, doyen of Tsakonian Linguistics, has died, and the next Tsakonian Studies conference at Lenidi will be held in his memory.

I have not heard of his passing anywhere else, and cannot find an obituary online, so I assume it has been this past year.

I was lucky enough to talk to him in Athens in ’95. A kindly old man, and resigned to the death of his language.

Θανάσης Κωστάκης, 1906-2009. Αιωνία του η μνήμη.