REMgrA07 History of the Modern Greek Language I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
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.
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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
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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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