Course Content (Syllabus)
The course delves into the main phonologic, morphosyntactic and lexical changes that the spoken Greek had to undergo during the hellenistic as well as early and later medieval periods. In this framework, travelling through space and time, we touch upon the crucial position of the Hellenistic Koine as a qualitative evolution of Ancient Greek and as a starting point for the development of certain characteristics that carve the profile of Medieval (and Modern Greek) over time. Additionally, the notion of linguistic change as well as the factors/mechanisms leading to it, and the ways of identifying it through numerous sources, are emphasized throughout the course. The issues of the utilization of the sources and similar methodological questions lead us to underline the priority of the spoken over the written language, even if the latter constitutes almost the only source of language history.
Consequently, changes in spoken language are rendered as a nodal point in our research, without ignoring the tradition of written language and its impact on the spoken language.
Finally, the classic approach that is implemented in the framework of the course is based on viewing diachrony as a sum of consequent synchronies, as well as of each synchrony as a combination and coexistence of older and newer elements that both promote linguistic change and assure linguistic continuity.
Having accepted that the suggested time frames have a conventional as well as a transitional character, we divide the era under examination in early and late medieval periods, Turkish occupation period and the period after the establishment of the Modern Greek nation until today.
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
R. Browning, Η Ελληνική Γλώσσα, Μεσαιωνική και Νέα. Εκδόσεις Παπαδήμα.
Μ. Τριανταφυλλίδης, Νεοελληνική Γραμματική. Ιστορική εισαγωγή. 3ος τόμων των Απάντων, Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών, Θεσσαλονίκη 2017.
Additional bibliography for study
Adrados F., Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας: Από τις απαρχές ως τις μέρες μας. [Μετάφραση Α. Lecumberri από το πρωτότυπο Historia de la Lengua Griega. De los origenes a nuestros dias, 1999], Αθήνα 2003.
Ανδριώτης Ν., Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας, Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών, Θεσσαλονίκη 1981.
Bubenik V., Morphological and syntactic change in Medieval Greek and South Slavic languages, Lincom Europa, München 2001.
Εideneier Η., Όψεις της ιστορίας της ελληνικής γλώσσας από τον Όμηρο έως σήμερα. [Μετάφραση Ευ. Θωμαδάκη από το πρωτότυπο Von Rhapsodie zu Rap: Aspekte der griechischen Sprachgeschichte von Homer bis heute, 1999], Αθήνα 2004.
Κοπιδάκης, Μ. (επιμ.), Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας, Ελληνικό Λογοτεχνικό και Ιστορικό Αρχείο, Αθήνα 1999.
Thomson G., Η ελληνική γλώσσα, αρχαία και νέα, β΄ έκδοση (α΄ έκδοση 1964), Αθήνα 1989.
Tonnet H., Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας. Η διαμόρφωσή της, [Μετάφραση Μ. Καραμάνου – Π. Λιαλιάτσης από το πρωτότυπο Histoire du grec moderne. La formation d’une langue, Paris 1993], Αθήνα 1995.
Χατζιδάκις Γ., Σύντομος ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα 1915.