Greek II

Code:

EPL010

Acronym:

GRE2

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Classical Languages

Instance: 2010/2011 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Portuguese Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EPL	8	Study Plan	3	-	6	52	162
LLC	0	Joint Language Plan-Portuguese/Classical Languages	1	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- Know the basic structures of Greek (morphological and syntactic).
- Use this knowledge to translate simple texts into Portuguese (original or adapted versions).
- Learn the vocabulary indicated by the teacher (two hundred words).
- Recognise the Greek roots in the Portuguese lexical structure.
- Recognise the importance of Greek in shaping Western philosophical and scientific terminology.

Program

1. Morphology:
1.1. Noun inflexion:
1.1.1. The nouns - third declension: themes in stops, vowels, digamma and sibilant; flexion of "pater", "meter", "thugater", "aner" and "gyne".
1.1.2. Triformed and biformed adjectives (second class) and their degrees (comparative and superlative); the irregular "megas".
1.1.3. Pronouns (interrogative, indefinite, possessive, demonstrative and relative).
1.2. Verbal flexion:
1.2.1. Tense and aspect.
1.2.2. Thematic verbs in -w, contracted and non-contracted; future, aorist (sigmatic and radical) in the indicative and infinitive moods, and in the participle, active voice, medio and passive; aorist imperative.
1.2.4. Participles in the active, medio and passive voices.
2. Syntax:
2.1. The participle: nominal function and adverbial function.
2.2. Circumstantial complements; complement of purpose
2.3. Subordinate relative clauses (simple), complete and circumstantial (causal, temporal, consecutive and concession).

Mandatory literature

JÚNIOR, M.A.; Gramática de Grego, Alcalá, 2003
GOODWIN, William W.; A Greek Grammar, Macmillan, 1987
LIDDELL, H. G. – SCOTT, R. A.; A Greek-English Lexicon, Clarendon Press, 1968
PEREIRA, I.; Dicionário Grego-Português e Português-Grego , Liv. do Apostolado da Imprensa
FREIRE, António; Gramática Grega , Livraria Apostolado da Imprensa, 1985
BAILLY, A.; Dictionnaire grec français , Hachette, 1950
RAGON, E. ; Grammaire grecque, Klincksieck, 1972
HUMBERT, Jean; Syntaxe grecque, Klincksieck, 1972
CHANTRAINE, Pierre ; Morphologie historique du grec , Klincksieck, 1973
BALME, M. ; Athenaze: an introduction to ancient greek I, Oxford University Press, 1990
Joint Association of Classical Teacher; Reading greek: text, Cambridge University Press, 1978
Joint Association of Classical Teacher; Reading greek: grammar, vocabulary and exercises, Cambridge University Press, 1999

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theory-practical classes: expository classes on programme contents; translation and back-translation exercises; tutorials

keywords

Humanities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Exame	4,00		2011-07-15
	Trabalho escrito	31,00		2011-07-15
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	71	2011-07-15
	Total:	71,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Participation in classes: 30%
Written tests: 70%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations