Arguments in favor of the polytonic system

Table of Contents

1940-1949

• Contest in law of the accents, Part 1, Excerpts from the book “Contest in law of the accents, Conferences at the Philosophical School of the University of Athens”, Tzakas-Dellagrammatikas publ. 1944: Conferences by prof. Chadzis, Marinatos, Pezopoulos, Zoras, Logothetis and Favis. (173 kB)
• Contest in law of the accents, Part 2, Excerpts from the book “Contest in law of the accents, Conferences at the Philosophical School of the University of Athens”, Tzakas-Dellagrammatikas publ. 1944: Conference by prof. Kalitsounakis. (122 kB)

1970-1979

• Accents and breathings of evil, by Aggelos Elefantis, journal O Politis, vol. 25, March-April 1979. (41 kB)

1980-1989

• Language and Nation, by Konstantinos Tsatsos (1981), from the book “Before we started — Studies”, Astir publishers, Athens 1988. (21 kB)
• The dot and comma, by Sophia Skopetea, journal Epopteia, vol. 55, March 1981, pp. 261-266. (49 kB)
• The monotonic “revolution”, by Aggelos Elefantis, journal O Logotechnikos Politis, vol. 47-48, January-February 1982. (41 kB)
• Protests: Protest of Greek Authors (Jan. 1982) and Protest of the Greek Language Association (Mar 1982). (9 kB)
• The Monotonic Spiritual Decline of Hellenism by Christos Malevitsis, extract from book “Ta mêla tôn Hesperidôn, Tomes stên suneidêsê tês epochês mas”, Imago 1984. (14 kB)
• About Accents of About the “Dream of a Shadow”?, by Sarantos Kargakos, extract from the book Alalia, Gutenberg 1986 (4th edition 2005). (29 kB)
• Variation #4, by Haris Lambidis, extract from the book “Counter-attacks for the Language and for Hellenism”, Antifonon 1986. (327 kB)
• Monotonic music, Extract from the book “Stasima and Exodos” by Stelios Ramfos, Ekdoseis ton filon 1988. (104 kB)
• Greek language as a song, speach by Dionysis Savvopoulos, Remarks by conference participants and Answers by speakers, from the book “Public Dialogue on Language”, Domos, 1988. (149 kB)

1990-1999

• Two texts by Odysseas Elytis: extracts from “The public and the private affairs” and from “Towards optics of sound”, . (14 kB)
• The Scandal of the Monotonic System, from magazine Efthini, collection “Fylla Machis” nb. 1, September 1991. (43 kB)
• The Deforestation of Language, by Sarantos Kargakos, extract from book “Alexia”, Gutenberg 1991. (23 kB)
• A new tone (= accent) and a new spirit (= breathing) for our bulletin, by Vangelis Bitsoris, taken from issue 19 (June 1994) of the Bulletin of the Center of Literary Translation of the French Institute in Athens. (8 kB)
• Spiritual decrease? by Dimitris S. Tabaoglou, Kathêmerinê 5 June 1994. (10 kB)
• Greek languages, by Kostas Karaiskos, Antifonitis, October 1994. (30 kB)
• A watershed in the history of Greek script: Abolishing the polytonic, by Nicolaos M. Panayotakis in ``Greek Letters: From Tablets to Pixels'' by the Greek Font Society, Institut français d'Athènes, Juin 7-10, 1995. (65 kB)
• The linguistic reform by Rallis, By Christos Giannaras, in the newspaper Kathimerini, April 28, 1996. (12 kB)
• The Polytonic System, Once Again, by Christos Malevitsis, extract from book “Paraktioi anthrôpoi”, Euthênê 1996. (9 kB)

2000-2009

• The monotonic system, twenty years later, special issue of the magazine Efthini, 365, May 2002, p. 243-248. (44 kB)
• The vengeance of accents, Preface and Introduction of the book “The vengeance of accents, the influence of “ancient Greek” and “monotonic system” on the psychoeducative evolution of the child”, by Ioannias K. Tsegkos, Thalis N. Papadakis and Dimitra Vekiari, Enallaktikes Ekdoseis, 2005. (123 kB)
• With the Parthenon but without linguistic continuity, By Christos Giannaras, in the newspaper Kathimerini, April 9, 2006. (14 kB)
• Monotonic system, after 24 years, speech of the archbishop of Athens Christodoulos towards the Holy Synode, on May 22, 2006. (55 kB)
• The polytonic system of Greek language from the perspective of language sciences, by Chrissostomos Papaspyrou, Educator at the Athens Special Lyceum for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (November 2006). (58 kB)
• Why do I insist on the polytonic accentuation system, by Gregorios Sifakis, Prof. emeritus of Classical Greek Philologt at the University of Thessaloniki and New York University (January 2007). (28 kB)
• The references of monotonists to Wilamowitz and Georgios Hadzidakis, by Yannis Haralambous (January 2007). (133 kB)
• Words and their jewels, by Christos Tsamis (2008). (13 kB)
• Twelve reasons for the polytonic system, by Th. Kourtalidis, newspaper Christianiki, Thursday June 12, 2008. (11 kB)
• Interview for the VIMAMen Magazine, by Yannis Haralambous (25/12/2008). (22 kB)

2010-σήμερα

• Τὸ Μικρόβιο καὶ οἱ Πολυτονιᾶται, From the blog “People & Ideas”, first published in the newspaper “The way of the left wing”. Unfortunately the author signs with a pseudonym: Quasimodo Gorgiades. We added an introduction which we suggest you read, before the text itself. (24 kB)

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Facsimili of documents

• U. v. Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Der griechische Unterricht auf dem Gymnasium, als Ms. gedruckt, Leipzig, 1900 (1 Mb). If you have a hard time reading broken (German) script, the following table may help you:: For additional information on Gothic script, please read the following article (1.7 MB).
• Γεώργιος Χατζιδάκις, Ἀκαδημεικὰ ἀναγνώσματα περὶ τοῦ γραπτοῦ ἡμῶν λόγου, Ἐπιστημονικὴ ἐπετηρὶς τοῦ Ἐθνικοῦ Πανεπιστημίου, Ϛʹ 1909-1910, Ἀθήνα, 1911 (4.5 MB).
• Γεώργιος Χατζιδάκις, Συμβολὴ εἰς τὴν ἱστορίαν τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς γλώσσης, περὶ τῶν μετοχῶν, Πρακτικὰ τῆς Ἀκαδημίας Ἀθηνῶν, 15 Νοεμβρίου 1928, τόμος 3, σελ. 634-645 (1.2 MB).
• Γεώργιος Χατζιδάκις, Περὶ τῆς χρήσεως τῶν παθητικῶν ρημάτων ἐν τῇ νεωτέρᾳ Ἑλληνικῇ, Πρακτικὰ τῆς Ἀκαδημίας Ἀθηνῶν, 25 Ἀπριλίου 1929, τόμος 4, τεῦχος 2, σελ. 184-185 (153 kB).
• Παῦλος Νιρβάνας, Ἡ ὀρθογραφία μας, ἐφημερίδα Ἑστία, 23 Φεβρουαρίου 1929 (776 kB).
• Παῦλος Νιρβάνας, Ἡ ἁπλοποίηση τοῦ τονικοῦ συστήματος, ἐφημερίδα Ἑστία, 24 Φεβρουαρίου 1929 (745 kB).
• Κωστῆς Παλαμᾶς, Ἐορτασμὸς τῆς ὀγδοηκονταετηρίδος τοῦ Γ. Χατζιδάκι, Πρακτικὰ τῆς Ἀκαδημίας Ἀθηνῶν, 28 Φεβρουαρίου 1929, τόμος 4, τεῦχος 1, σελ. 44-49 (563 kB).