• Students learn about the history of the Greek language with the help of comparative linguistic methods, about the phonetic system and the evolution of phonetic rules, about the attested stages of Greek: the Mycenaean linguistic form, the dialects of the historical period, the characteristics of literary language and its variants.
  • A special focus is laid on post-classical colloquialisms, the so-termed Koine Greek, which laid the foundations for the development of Modern Greek. In addition, synchronous aspects of linguistics are also taken into consideration, such as regional and societal differentiation, text linguistics and more.