FF:REMgrA07 History of Modern Greek I - Course Information

REMgrA07 History of the Modern Greek Language I

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Bc. Kateřina Bočková Loudová, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová

Timetable

Wed 15:00–15:45 A32 stara, Wed 15:50–16:35 A32 stara

Prerequisites (in Czech)

REBcZk B. A. State Exam || KRBcA04 Greek Grammar IV

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

Lectures deal with the development of Greek language from Hellenistic Koine up to 1976, when Dimotiki was established as the official language of Greece. Lectures will be supplemented by text readings (papyruses, the New Testament, extracts from Byzantine chronicles, hagiographies and novels, from Cypriote and Cretan literature and early modern-period texts). The main aim of the course is to acquire knowledge of the development of Modern Greek language in historical and cultural-political context.

Syllabus

• 1. Periodization of the development of Greek language. Hellenistic and Roman Koine, emergence, sources, disappearance of Ancient Greek dialects. 2. Main tendencies of the development of Hellenistic Koine: changes in vocalic and consonant phonetic system, text extracts. 3. Main tendencies of the development of Hellenistic Koine: changes in noun morphology; text extracts. 4. Main tendencies of the development of Hellenistic Koine: changes in verbs system, disappearance of infinitives and participles, text extracts. 5. Lexicon of Hellenistic and Roman Koine. 6. Atticism and second Sophism – significance for the emergence of Greek diglossia. Language of early Christian literature; text extracts. 7. Byzantine period Greek. Early Byzantine period. Language map of the empire. Sources. 8. Main tendencies of the development of early Byzantine Koine: changes in vocalic and consonant phonetic system, text extracts. 9. Main tendencies of the development of early Byzantine Koine: changes in noun morphology; text extracts. 10. Main tendencies of the development of early Byzantine Koine: changes in verbs system (k-aorist formation, future tense, perfect tense, pluperfect tense, present stem formation); text extracts. 11. Lexicon of early Byzantine period. 12. Language registers of Byzantine Koine; text extracts (acclamations, chronicles, early Bulgarian inscriptions etc.). 13. Balkan linguistic union

Literature

• CARAGOUNIS, Chrys C. The development of Greek and the New Testament : morphology, syntax, phonology, and textual transmission. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004, xix, 732. ISBN 3161482905. info
• HORROCKS, G. A History of the Language and its Speakers. London - New York, 1997. info
• BABINIOTIS, G. Synoptiki istoria tis ellinikis glossas. Athina, 1985. info
• BROWNING, R. Medieval and Modern Greek. London, 1964. info
• TRIANDAFYLLIDIS, M. Neoelliniki grammatiki. Istoriki isagoji. Athina, 1938. info
• JANNARIS, A. N. A Historical Greek Grammar. London, 1897. info

Assessment methods

Type of course: lecture, readings and texts interpretation. The course ends with a written test.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• REMgrA07b History of the Modern Greek Language II

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught once in two years.
General note: Předmět je povinný pro studenty novořeckého jazyka a literatury a jednooborové klasické řečtiny.

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