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Historical Grammar of Greek

Course
2020-2021

Admission requirements

Ancient Greek for Linguists I and Ancient Greek for Linguists II, or an equivalent level of language acquisition in Ancient Greek.

Description

This course gives a one-semester intensive introduction to the historical grammar of Ancient Greek. The main phonological and morphological aspects of Ancient Greek and its dialects are reviewed during the first half of the course. We will use a course syllabus on historical grammar that also contains exercises, and we will take a look at a number of inscriptions. This part will be tested with a mid-term exam. During the second half of the course, we will analyze Ancient Greek literary texts from a historical perspective: we will read short sections from Sappho and from Homer’s Iliad. For this part of the course, students get a take home assignment on a passage from Homer.

Course objectives

  • Knowledge of the attestations and dialectal diversity of Ancient Greek

  • Skills: be able to account for differences in phonology and morphology between words from different Greek dialects, and to reconstruct earlier forms of such words

  • Skills: be able to translate a short annotated piece of Homeric Greek into correct English with the help of a grammar and dictionary, and to comment on its morphological and phonological peculiarities from a historical linguistic perspective

Timetable

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Mode of instruction

  • Lecture/Seminar

Assessment method

Assessment

  • Mid-term exam on the historical phonology of Ancient Greek

  • Final take-home assignment with open questions on a piece of Homeric Greek

Weighing

  • The mid-term and take home assignment both count for 50% of the final mark.

  • Additional requirement: the grade of both parts must be at least 5.

Resit

There is one resit option for both parts of the assessment.

inspection and feedback

How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will be organized.

Reading list

  • Course Syllabus (distributed via Brightspace)

  • Annotated texts from Homer and Sappho (distributed via Brightspace)

Registration

This has to be filled out by the key-user of the department.
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available on the website.

Contact

For questions related to the content of the course, please contact the lecturer, you can find their contact information by clicking on their name in the sidebar.

For questions regarding enrollment please contact the Education Administration Office Reuvensplaats
E-mail address Education Administration Office Reuvensplaats: osz-oa-reuvensplaats@hum.leidenuniv.nl

For questions regarding your studyprogress contact the Coordinator of Studies

Remarks

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