REMgrA07b History of the Modern Greek Language II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
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 15:00–16:35 A49
Prerequisites (in Czech)
REBcZk B. A. State Exam || KRBcA04 Greek Grammar IV
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The course provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Greek language from Hellenistic Koine up to 1976, when Dimotiki was established as the official language of Greece. Lectures are 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). At the end of the course, students will have an extensive knowledge of the development of Modern Greek language in historical and cultural-political context. They will be capable of reading, translating and analysing of dealt Medieval and Early modern-period Greek texts from the linguistic point of view. They will have a deep understanding of key aspects of the development of the Greek language.
Syllabus
  • 1. Middle Byzantine Period: low and middle style – samples of language registers: Digenis Akritas, Ptochoprodromika. 2. Middle Byzantine Period: high style - samples of language registers: Anna Komnena, metaphrase of the Palaiologos period. 3. Late Byzantine Period – penetration of Dimotiki to literature in the 12th-15th centuries. Chronicle of Morea. Romance novels. 4. Byzantine Period – dialectal literature (Cyprus, Crete). 5. Formation of present-day Greek dialects and their system. 6. Dimotiki during the period of the Turkish rule (nouns and verbs morphology, lexicon). 7. Literary Greek during the period of the Turkish rule; the influence of enlightenment. 8. The emergence of national language – the Greek language questions and its solution. 9. Roots of Dimotiki movement – Solomos and the Ionian islands. 10. Prevalence of Katharevousa. 11. Reaction – Psycharis and the programme of the proponents of Dimotiki. 12. Struggle with Katharevousa and transition to Dimotiki (20th century). 13. Present-day Modern Greek.
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, Geoffrey C. Greek : a history of the language and its speakers. London: Longman, 1997, xxi, 393. ISBN 0582031915. info
  • BUBENÍK, Vít. Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a sociolinguistic area. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1989, xv, 331. ISBN 9027235511. info
  • BROWNING, R. Medieval and Modern Greek. London, 1964. info
  • JANNARIS, A. N. A Historical Greek Grammar. London, 1897. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, readings and texts interpretation.
Assessment methods
The course ends with an oral exam (30 min.).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
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 Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2025.
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