Descriptive grammar of Modern Greek language

obligatory courses

Descriptive grammar of Modern Greek is a course aiming to present grammar issues of contemporary Modern Greek (kini neoelliniki) equivalent to grammar knowledge at the language skill level of at least A2.

Presenting the basic notions, categories and phenomena of Modern Greek grammar and syntax. The course aims to expand and provide a theoretical background for the practical language learning course.

- Phonetics of Modern Greek: letters, sounds, accent, phonetic processes, intonation

- Parts of speech: nouns and articles (using articles, gender, number, cases, basic masculine, feminine and neuter declensions, common and proper nouns)

- Parts of speech: adjectives (basic types and declension, comparison)

- Parts of speech: pronouns (personal, possessive, interrogative, indefinite, demonstrative)

- Parts of speech: numbers (cardinal and ordinal)

- Parts of speech: verbs (voices, moods, types of verbs, basic conjugations, basic tenses, participles)

- Parts of speech: invariable parts of speech (adverbs, prepositions, particles, conjunctions, interjections)

- Basic elements of syntax: construction of a simple and compound sentence, using moods and voices, government of verbs, using noun cases

- Materiały przygotowane przez prowadzącącego,

- M. Triandafillidis, „Mała gramatyka nowogrecka”,

- Materiały pochodzące z greckich podręczników nauczania języka nowogreckiego, będących w posiadaniu biblioteki Pracowni Studiów Helleńskich.

Ponieważ w zajęciach uczestniczą studenci I roku, niemożliwe jest korzystanie z literatury dostępnej wyłącznie w języku nowogreckim.

Learning outcomes:

Knowledge:

- the knowledge necessary to write and speak contemporary Modern Greek at the B1 level;

- identifying grammatical forms of all the parts of speech at a basic level (or using a dictionary to find a word – the basic word form for uncomplicated grammatical forms);

- identifying the basic kinds of syntactic phenomena and their functions.

Skills:

Being able to use knowledge in practice:

- applying the basic rules of spelling and pronunciation (orthography, accents, intonation);

- building correct grammatical forms for all the parts of speech at a basic level;

- building correct simple and compound sentences at a basic level (including applying the rules of verb rection, noun cases);

- identifying the sequence of tenses and the main function of the aspect of a verb.

Social competences:

- respect for correct language;

- being aware of correct usage of Modern Greek grammar in communication.

The effects of participating in classes and the grade from the test at the end of the summer semester.