Presentation
While the subject studied here is the current state of the Greek language, this guide also makes reference to previous states of the language, whenever helpful for explanation. The author’s goal is to apply all that has long been known about Ancient Greek accentuation to the still-developing field of Modern Greek accentology.
The correct use of Greek accents can be learned, at the same time as vocabulary, by spontaneously reproducing forms that one hears, or that one endeavours to properly accentuate while reading.
Considering the categories of primary stress provides guidance in what can seem to a non-native speaker to be a jungle of different stress patterns; it aids memory and assumptions about where to place stress on words only seen in written form, in capital letters (in the title of an article or book, for example).
This study can additionally serve as an introduction to the history of Greek word formation, from Antiquity to the present day.
The translations help provide the reader with a clear understanding but are not meant to exhaustively indicate all meanings of the words referenced.
Author
Henri Tonnet, professor emeritus of Modern Greek at Inalco and the Sorbonne, is the author of a Modern Greek textbook (in collaboration with Georgios Galanes), A history of the Modern Greek language, A handbook of Modern Greek grammar and A French-Modern Greek dictionary. He has also translated numerous Greek novels into French.
252 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication: 15/11/2018
ISBN: 9782858312429