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090059 VO Standard Modern Greek: a linguistic approach (2025S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften

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Language: German, English

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    Aims, contents and method of the course

    The course provides a systematic analysis of the grammatical structure of Standard Modern Greek (SMG). At the same time, it serves as a “gentle introduction” to fundamental linguistic concepts and synchronic descriptive/typological approaches, making it accessible to participants with little or no background in linguistics.

    Key topics covered in the course include the phonological and morphological systems of SMG, morphosyntactic features (such as pre-verbal particles, finite complementation, “free” word order, information structure, and compounding), and the lexicon. Additionally, the course explores digital tools for compiling and analyzing SMG corpora.

    Assessment and permitted materials

    Final “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

    No previous knowledge of Modern Greek is required. Familiarity with the Modern Greek alphabet is desired but similarly not a prerequisite (although you will be expected after some course sessions to be able to read words and simple sentences in the Greek script). Knowledge of basic grammatical terms is presupposed.

    English and German are the working languages of the course, therefore average knowledge of both is a must. Presentation-slides will be in English. Lectures will be held in English and/or German according to the course participants' requirements.

    Basic grammatical/linguistic terms will be clarified in both languages.

    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

    Modern Greek Language and Grammar:

    Browning, R. 1983. Medieval and Modern Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511554148

    Holton, David, Peter Mackridge and Irene Philippaki-Warburton. 2012. Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar. 2nd ed. revised by Vassilios Spyropoulos. London and New York: Routledge.

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

    Ruge, Hans. 2020. Grammatik des Νeugriechischen. Lautlehre, Formenlehre, Syntax. Berlin: Edition Romiosini. Auch online verfügbar.

    Additional readings/introductions to linguistics (for English and German terminology definitions):

    Auer, Peter (Hg.). 2013. Sprachwissenschaft. Grammatik - Interaktion - Kognition. Stuttgart: Metzler.

    Fromkin, A.V., R. Rodman & N. Hyams. 2014. An Introduction to Language. Harcourt Brace College Publishers. (10th ed.).

    Yule, George. 2020. The study of language. Cambridge: CUP (7th ed.).

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