Course description

The course will examine the synchronic structure of Modern Greek based on the theoretical description and analysis at the linguistic levels of Phonology, Morphology and Semantics with emphasis on vocabulary. At the level of phonological description, the functional role of the phoneme is analyzed together with its distinctive features and the phonological processes that shape its realization in specific morpho-phonological environments. At the level of morphological analysis, emphasis is given in derivation and compounding as necessary functions for the semantic enrichment of the lexicon. At the level of vocabulary, phenomena of internal and external borrowing are described, including translated loan words, reborrowing and neologisms. At the semantic level of the language, the meaning of words and wider linguistic units (phrases-sentences) is examined from a philosophical and from a linguistic point of view based on their semantic relationships and properties.

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Structure of Modern Greek: Phonology-Morphology-Lexicon-Semantics