Greek II (Beginners)

Recommended Prerequisites

Reccomended aproval in Greek I (beginners)

Teaching Methods

The emphasis will be on the active learning of the language through reading and translation work. Grammatical content will be introduced and systematized using the texts to be studied. Students will translate sentences into Greek in written and/or oral form in order to strengthen the material studied. Homework will be required. Active method: students are continuously asked to participate.

Learning Outcomes

The student should

-read texts in Greek;

-write in Greek, applying spelling, accentuation, the rules of contraction and elision;

-recognize the modalities of sentences (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamation, negative clauses)

-recognize, through enunciation, the different morphological categories;

-distinguish variable words from invariable words;

-know the fundamental models of nominal flexion;

-know verbal flexion regarding the active and middle voice and of verbs at -ω;

-know the fundamental rules of syntax, in order to translate simple texts into Portuguese and to produce small sentences into Greek;

-acquire a reasonable vocabulary for different contexts of comunication;

-master the dictionary use;

-recognise Greek etymology in Portuguese vocabulary.

 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Morphology

1. the nominal system: gender, number, cases.

2. Notions of steem, themes, thematic vowel, desinence endings

3. The verbal system: time, mode, voice.

4. the nominal declension: the consonant and the semivowel themes of the 3rd declension; the adjectives; the comparative and superlative degrees of the adjectives; the pronouns.

5. verb blexion: the thematic verbs. The active voice and the middle voice.

6. some invariable words: the adverbs, the subordinate conjunctions, the prepositions, some particles.

Syntax

The simple sentence: the interrogative sentence; the negative sentence; main circumstantial complements

2 The complex sentence: the relative; the infinitive ; the circumstantial sentence (time, cause, end)

3. the syntax of the cases

4 The syntax of the adjective

5 The syntax of the participle

Lexicon

1. etymological families (continued)

2. Organization of vocabulary by semantic fields.

Head Lecturer(s)

José Luís Lopes Brandão

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Homework: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 60.0%

Bibliography

 

BAILLY, A., Dictionnaire Grec Français, Hachette, Paris.

BOAS, E.E. et alii (2019), The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek, Cambridge University Press.

CHANTRAINE, P. (1973, 2ª ed.), Morphologie historique du grec, Paris.

DIAS, P.B."A serpente tartaruga: o testemunho de O Fisiólogo acerca dos monstros marinhos e da baleia", Cadmo 24, 2015: 1243-142.

DIAS, P.B. "Os Onocentauros e as Sereias: testemunho de O Fisiólogo". Boletim de Estudos Clássicos. Vol. 57 (2012): 29-39.

HUMBERT, J. (1972, 3ª ed.), Syntaxe grecque, Paris.

LEJEUNE, M. (1955, 2ª ed.), Traité de phonétique grecque, Paris.

FONSECA, C. A. LOURO (1987), Iniciação ao Grego, Coimbra.

FREIRE, A. (1987), Gramática Grega, Braga.

GOODWIN, W.W. & GULICK, C.B. (1958), Greek Grammar, Boston.

LIDDELL, H. & SCOTT, R. (1996), A Greek-English Lexicon, with a revised Supplement, Oxford.

MAGUEIJO, C. (1999), Grego Básico, Edições Colibri.

PEREIRA, I., Dicionário Grego-Português e Português-Grego, Livraria Apostolado da Imprensa, Braga.