On successful completion of the course students are expected to be able to: Students will be able to:
1. To get to know through examples the basic characteristics of language change in the Greek language.
2. To get to know the stages of the Greek language through illustrative texts and examples.
3. To interpret the synchrony of Greek (rules and exceptions) based on changes that have taken place over time.
4. To get to know the learned/scholar level in contemporary modern Greek through texts and sources of the language landscape.
Specifically:
• They will learn information about the prehistory (Indo-European – Proto-Greek) and the history (Ancient, Hellenistic, Medieval) of the Greek language.
• They will get to know in detail the synchronic and diachronic phonological and morphological analysis of Greek.
• They will perceive the survivals (mainly at the lexical and morphological level) of the linguistic tradition in modern Greek through the presentation and explanation of language changes and by extension (a) the connection between language past and present and (b) the reciprocal relationship between teaching ancient Greek and modern Greek.
