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090038 VO Historical Grammar of Modern Greek (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
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Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 07.03. 10:45 - 12:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Thursday 14.03. 10:45 - 12:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Thursday 21.03. 10:45 - 12:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Thursday 11.04. 10:45 - 12:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Thursday 25.04. 10:45 - 12:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Thursday 02.05. 10:45 - 12:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Thursday 23.05. 10:45 - 12:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Thursday 06.06. 10:45 - 12:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Thursday 13.06. 10:45 - 12:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Thursday 20.06. 10:45 - 12:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock

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Aims, contents and method of the course

How similar (or different) is Modern Greek to its ancient predecessor? This is a question that often arises in discourses about the historical development of the Greek language either by those who are familiar with the contemporary language or by the ones who learned Classical Greek. While this course does not provide a concrete answer to the similarity question (a difficult to measure notion) it does elucidate the changes that occurred in the language since the Hellenistic Koiné Greek period (roughly 300 BC – 600 AD) to Modern Greek as spoken nowadays. During the course we examine the gradual changes in the phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical system from a solid linguistic point of view and we focus on intermediate stages such as Late Middle (13th – 15th c. AD) and Early Modern Greek (16th – 18th c. AD). In so doing, we will make use of the corpora provided by Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) and other digital tools. At the same time, the course is understood as a smooth introduction to the theory and the terminology of language change research.

Assessment and permitted materials

Final online “take-home” and “open-book” exam (for instance in the form of a multiple choice quiz and/or short expository essays etc.)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The course presupposes some familiarity with the Greek alphabet. Knowledge of the basics of either the Ancient or the Modern Greek grammar is similarly advantageous. Those not fulfilling these prerequisites but willing to participate in this course should contact the instructor in advance.
The working languages of this course are English and German. The lectures will be held in English. Some code-switching between these two languages may occur depending on participants’ linguistic background.

Grading key: 55-65% = 4, 65-75% = 3, 76-89% = 2, 90-100% = 1

Examination topics

All topics dealt in the lectures, course notices uploaded on Moodle, excerpts from selected works or papers.

Reading list

Browning, R. 1983. Medieval and Modern Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chatzidakis, Georgios. 1892. Einleitung in die neugriechische Grammatik (Bibliothek Indogermanischer Grammatiken Vol. V). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel.

Eideneier, Hans. 1999. Von Rhapsodie zu Rap. Aspekte der griechischen Sprachgeschichte von Homer bis heute. Tübingen.

Jannaris, Antonius Nicholas. 1897. An Historical Greek Grammar. London: Macmillan.

Holton, D.; Horrocks, G.; Janssen, M.; Lendari T.; Manolessou I.; Toufexis N. 2019. The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Horrocks, Geoffrey. 2014. Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers. (2nd ed.). Wiley Blackwell.

Mackridge, P. 1985. The modern Greek language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Additional literature will be provided during the lectures.

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