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First, here are several of the hand-outs I made for my Greek classes, in PDF format.
Most fit (in landscape format) on a single (US letter)page.

Recommended Acrobat version: 4 or higher.

First things first: Verbs

  • luw sheet: A complete overview of luw in all tenses
  • contracts: Present of luw, timaw, poiew, dhlow (no more typos, I hope!)
  • mi-verbs, present: Didwmi, tithhmi, ihmi, histhmi, deiknumi
  • mi-verbs, aorist: edwka, ethhka, heka, esthn, egnwn
  • mi-verbs, irregular: eimi, eimi, fhmi; now also has the dreaded oida and eidon
  • isthmi, overview: all tenses (but no perfect middle, because it wouldn't fit..).
  • the perfect: regular and irregular (oida, tethnhka, etc.); active and middle-passive.
  • an overview of first and second/strong/thematic aorists(except for 'mi-aorists').
  • Ever been confused about bouleusai, bouleusai and bouleusai? This is for you.

Are you so serious about your Greek that you want a mug, a mouse pad, or a tshirt to advertise your interest? Or do you just need reminders on a daily basis about the forms of luw? Either way, see if you like what's in store at What Would Luw Do? Brought to you by Summer Greek @ Chicago 2007. They nor I benefit financially :-)

Just for good measure: Nouns, pronouns, the definite article.

  • the a and o declensions: nouns,adjectives, the definite article.
  • the 'third' or consonant declension:nouns and adjectives (in -hs, and -us). This is two pages.
  • the relative, interrogative, indefinite, and demonstrative pronouns.
  • the personal pronouns, including reflexives and reciprocals.

Beyond Paradigms:

  • "Ultimate guide to verb endings and verb stems": some generalizations that do NOT pretend to historical accuracy or originality, but simply can be used as a guide to the vagaries of the individual paradigms when panic strikes or efficiency beckons.
  • Uses of the subjunctive and optative, or.. May And Might Are For Wimps. A 3-page overview of the uses of these moods.For the full picture, I recommend A. Rijksbaron (1994), The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek. An Introduction. These 3 pages offer nothing new.
  • Conditional sentences.Again, a non-original, one-page overview. Note to teachers of Greek:
    • 1) The future most vivid is not included here, since it's a figment of the grammarian's imagination. See again Rijksbaron (ref. above); it is to be subsumed under the Neutral (Simple) Conditional.
    • 2) No separate present and past contrary-to-fact are distinguished either.The difference between aorist and imperfect is aspectual not temporal.
    For a book-length treatment, see Wakker, G.C., Conditions and Conditionals.For some examples that might help you think about 1) and 2) look at this page of a recent APA handout.
  • Coming Soon: Uses of the infinitive and participle, or..-Ing Is For Wimps.

Miscellaneous:

For fun:
Here's some Greek pronounced in a non-scholarly (shall we say, Midwestern-Euro?) style. I recorded these for my course site, but I suppose I can post them here as well:
[Caution: these are large Quicktime files! Sound effects courtesy of iMovie]Back to silence:
  • what are those squiggles?a quick and dirty introduction to breathings and accents; answer sheet.
  • list of principal parts by unit,through unit 19, for Mastronarde's Introduction to Attic Greek [first three only, i.e., present, future, aorist]. 4 pages.
  • an experiment with Perseus' new vocabulary tool. A list of words that covers 90% of tokens in a collection of Attic prose texts from the Perseus corpus. In US format,Euroformat,and as a Word document. Read the caveats carefully!
These handouts contain some references to Hansen & Quinn's Greek: An Intensive Course and Mastronarde's Introduction to Attic Greek,but are mainly meant to provide one-page overviews of some important verbal paradigms -- satisfactory versions of (many of) which I have failed to find in English-language Greek textbooks. I expect that many teachers have by now produced their own - if not, these can be downloaded and printed.Please inform me of any typos (but note that consistent mis-accentuation and the like are probably due to incompatibility of our versions of Acrobat. These documents were created on an Apple Macintosh with Acrobat 4.0). For more web resources on Greek grammar, see now Marc Huys's comprehensive website greekgrammar.com!

The other papers in this folder concern work in progress. I would appreciate a) being informed by visitors when they download any or all of these documents; b) more importantly, hearing comments from readers. Please respect the fact that this is work in progress. Do not quote or cite.
My email address: helmadikATuchicago.edu.

The following longer paper is available in two formats:

US letter format:

  • Word shapes in the trimeter.The final version of this paper is now published in Illinois Classical Studies 23 (1998), pp. 47-84.
Euro A4 format:Download Acrobat by clicking on the icon.
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