index

This section covers Tsakonian grammar: how words are formed, inflected, and combined into sentences. It blends conservative Doric features inherited from Ancient Greek with unique innovations not found in Standard Modern Greek.

• 5.1 Nouns — gender, number, and case, including the progressive loss of the genitive.
• 5.2 Verbs — the aspect system (imperfective vs. perfective) and the periphrastic constructions that replace many Standard Modern Greek inflected forms.
• 5.3 Adjectives — agreement with nouns in gender, number, and case.
• 5.4 Pronouns — strong (emphatic) vs. weak (clitic) pronouns.
• 5.5 Numbers — the Doric-derived numeral system, including gender agreement for 1–4.
• 5.6 Adverbs — place, time, manner, and quantity modifiers, and their phonetic divergence from Standard Modern Greek.
• 5.7 Prepositions and Postpositions — how prepositions largely take over the functions of the lost genitive case.
• 5.8 Syntax — word order, agreement, clitic placement, and the predicative participle.
• 5.9 Particles and Clitics — invariable grammatical particles and clitic placement rules, which vary between subdialects.