An Elementary Greek Grammar

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We have read the Grammars of Kühner, referred to as his “Large” and “School” Grammars. Removing the instructed theses and countless information of the primary, we have strived to provide to the learner, in a plain and shorter style, whatever is of universal application.

Raphael Kühner was a German classical scholar. He issued an edition of the Tusculanae Disputationes of Cicero (1829; fifth edition, 1874). His huge selling Greek grammar, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (two volumes, 1834-35), was interpreted by William Edward Jelf (1842-45). A more extensive third edition in four volumes was published by Friedrich Wilhelm Blass and Bernhard Gerth (1890-1904). His bigger Latin grammar, Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache (two volumes, 1877-79), has been reedited in a bigger form by Friedrich Holzweissig and Carl Stegmann (Hannover, 1912-14). His lesser Greek and Latin grammars came through several editions.

The grammar of Standard Modern Greek, as enunciated in the current times, Greece and Cyprus, is simply that of Demotic Greek, although it has also incorporated absolute features of Katharevousa, the outmoded, instructed diversity of Greek mirroring Classical Greek styles, which used to be the official language of Greece through most of the 19th and 20th centuries. Modern Greek grammar has conserved several aspects of Ancient Greek, yet has also withstood changes in a same way as several other contemporary Indo-European languages, from more factitious to more rational forms.

The prevalent word order in Greek is SVO (subject-verb-object), however, word order is somewhat liberally fluctuating, with VSO and other orders as regular possible choices. Within the noun phrase, adjectives go ahead of the noun, while possessors come next to it. Alternative constructions incorporating the opposite order of constituents are probable as a stressed choice.
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