FF:KRBcA01 Greek Grammar I - Course Information

KRBcA01 Greek Grammar I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2006

Extent and Intensity

4/2/0. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

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Timetable

Mon 11:40–13:15 A32 stara, Tue 10:00–11:35 A32 stara, Wed 13:20–14:55 A40

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

Course objectives

Introduction to Classical Greek. Analysis of the morphological and syntactic phenomena of the normative grammar. Reading of Classical Greek texts.

Syllabus

1. Characteristics of Classical Greek.
2. Phonetics and phonology (including prosody: accent, intonation).
3. Survey of the development of vowels and consonants and of orthography.
4. Declension of the o-stems; present system of verbs; construction of A+I; atributive and predicative position of the article.
5. Declension of the a-stems; adjectives of the 1st and 2nd declension; active imperfect; irreal conditional mood and wish clauses with verbs in the imperfective form; substantivized infinitive.
6. Declension of the a-stems and o-stems: contracted forms; deponentia; Accusativus respectus.
7. Present system of verbs in mediopassive forms; mediopassive present participle; construction of the participium absolutum.
8. Mediopassive imperfect; formation of adverbs; construction of N+I, participium coniunctum.
9. Asigmatic aorist of verbs; irreal conditional clauses with verbs in the perfective forms.
10. Relative pronouns; sigmatic aorist of verbs; sigmatic future system of verbs of vocalic or explosive consonantal stems; final clauses with future participle.
11. Personal, possessive and demonstrative pronouns; regular comparison of adjectives and adverbs; construction of A+participle.
12. Declension of the consonantal stems on explosives.

Literature

HEILMANN, W. and K. ROESKE. Lexis. Einführung in die griechische Sprache. Frankfurt am Main, 1972. info
NIEDERLE, Jindřich, Václav NIEDERLE and Ladislav VARCL. Mluvnice jazyka řeckého. Ve Vyšehradu 1. vyd. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1998, 288 s. ISBN 8070212837. info
LEPAŘ, František. Nehomérovský slovník řeckočeský. V Mladé Boleslavi: Karel Vačlena, 1892, 1181 s. info
SCHULZ, Jaroslav Gustav. Attické tvary slovesné : podle nápisů a rukopisů (Přív.) : Řecko-český slovník ; Attické tvary slovesné : podle nápisů a rukopisů. [S.l.]: [s.n.], 1988, 135 s. info
BORNEMANN, E. and E. RISCH. Griechische Grammatik. Frankfurt, 1978. info
SCHWYZER, E. and A. DEBRUNNER. Griechische Grammatik. München, 1939. info
SMYTH, Herbert Weir. Greek Grammar. Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-674-36250-0. info
VLACHOS, V. P. Ta rimata omala ke anomala tis archeas ellinikis. Gutenber Athina, 1990. info
LIDDELL, H. G. and R. SCOTT. A Greek-English Dictionary. Oxford, 1951. info
PAPE, Wilhelm. Dr. W. Pape's Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache : in vier Bänden. Edited by Maximilian Sengebusch. 3. Aufl. Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1880, 1424 s. info
PAPE, Wilhelm. Dr. W. Pape's Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache : in vier Bänden. Edited by Maximilian Sengebusch. 3. Aufl. Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1880, xviii, 154. info

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.