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Identifier

000465765

Title

Η γραμματική της κοινής των Ελλήνων Γλώσσης του Νικολάου Σοφιανού (16ος αι.) και η έκδοσή της από τον Emile Legrand (Β' μισό 19ου αιώνα) : ιδεολογικές προεκτάσεις και η συγκρότηση του πεδίου της Νεοεληνικής Φιλολογίας / Σταυρούλα Μαυρομμάτη.

Author

Μαυρομμάτη, Σταυρούλα

Thesis advisor

Κατσιγιάννης Αλέξανδρος

Abstract

The subject of this work is the first modern Greek grammar entitled Grammar of the Common Greek Language by Nikolaos Sofianos, which was compiled in the 16th century and published at the end of the 19th by Émile Legrand. In the first part, the economic, spiritual and educational conditions that prevailed in the Italian centers during the Renaissance are explored, in which the primacy of Latin and ancient Greek in the written word begins to be shaken by the prestige gradually acquired by the national languages. Sofianos was educated in these centers and, influenced by the new printing practices and the consequent popularization of knowledge, he writes the Grammar and envisions the spiritual awakening of his enslaved compatriots, by translating classic books into the living language. The educational environment in the Turkish-occupied regions, on the other hand, does not seem to show much interest in works written in the «vulgar» language, making Sofianos' attempt less successful. The second part discusses the cultural, educational and political context in which the Grammar was first published. Legrand, par excellence a neo-Hellenicist, dedicated himself to the publication of vernacular texts at a time when the beginnings of neo-Greek studies can be placed, even in a proto-scientific phase. Works such as the Grammar are embraced by demoticists and their supporters, while stimulating the interest of a number of European Hellenists and academics in the physiognomy and identity of the modern Greek language and writing. In the third part, which also functions as an appendix, the modern Greek grammars cited by Legrand in the second edition of the Grammar are studied. These works, written mainly by foreign authors, had practical and proselytizing purposes and were connected to the religious and geopolitical rearrangements in the European area during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Language

Greek

Subject

Language question

Late Renaissance

Modern Greek Studies

Nation

Popular language

Έθνος

Όψιμη Αναγέννηση

Γλωσσικό ζήτημα

Λαϊκή γλώσσα