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Nouns, Articles & Gender

Three genders, definite/indefinite articles, declension classes and plural formation
Ιστορική εξέλιξη του τριγενούς συστήματος
Historical development of the three-gender system
from Proto-Indo-European
Greek preserves the old IE masc/fem/neut split largely intact
Μορφοφωνολογικές εναλλαγές στην κλίση
Morphophonological alternations in declension
stress and vowel changes
Systematic patterns govern how noun stems shift across cases
Ουδέτερο ως 'σημείο μηδέν' γένους
Neuter as the unmarked/default gender
typological observation
Neuter often serves as the default in agreement mismatches
Πτωτική συγκριτότητα (syncretism)
Case syncretism in the nominal system
nom=acc in neuters
Formal identity between cases reduces morphological contrasts
Διαχρονική απώλεια δοτικής
Diachronic loss of the dative case
absorbed into genitive/accusative
The ancient dative disappeared, its functions redistributed
Κοινωνιογλωσσολογική μεταβλητότητα δανείων
Sociolinguistic variation in loanword gender assignment
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Speakers vary in assigning gender to recent borrowings
Ονοματική μορφολογία σε διαλέκτους
Nominal morphology in Greek dialects
e.g. Pontic Greek
Peripheral dialects retain archaic case forms lost in Standard Greek
Υπολογιστική μορφολογία ουσιαστικών
Computational morphology of Greek nouns
paradigm generation
Rule-based and statistical models generate full noun paradigms
Γένος και συμφωνία σε σύνθετες ονοματικές φράσεις
Gender and agreement in complex noun phrases
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Coordination and apposition can create agreement mismatches
Σωματική συχνότητα κλιτικών τάξεων
Corpus-based frequency of declension classes
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Large corpora reveal which noun classes are most productive today