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Derivational morphology in Modern Greek: The State of the Art Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Nikos Koutsoukos, Angeliki Efthymiou
Derivational morphology is an umbrella term used for concatenative and non-concatenative processes for the formation of new lexemes. In Modern Greek, derivational morphology is one of the major morphological processes along with compounding and inflection. In recent years, research on derivational morphology has evolved rapidly. We present here the state-of-the-art on the recent advances in the derivational
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‘I haven’t got a clue!’: Assessing negation in classical Greek support-verb constructions Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Victoria Beatrix Fendel
Support-verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that act as the predicate, as ‘made the suggestion’ in I made the suggestion that she join. They are frequent, variable, and ambiguous across texts, as well as language-specific in their lexical and syntactic properties. The article examines patterns of negation with δίκην δίδωμι ‘to pay the price for one’s actions’, ὅπλα ἔχω ‘to be armed’
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The sense of ksénos in Ancient Greek: Prototypical schematicity and blending in a complex praxis Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Georgios Ioannou
The present work looks at the term ksénos as an access point to the enacted model of hospitality—ksenía—in ancient Greece. It deduces the onomasiological and semasiological spread of the term across the model’s participants, namely GUEST, STRANGER but also HOST, into a schematic prototypical core within a complex and dynamic conceptual integration model. Along the spatial continuum of DISTANCE-APPROACHING-PROXIMITY
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Synthetic-analytic variation in the formation of Greek comparatives and relative superlatives Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Foteini Karkaletsou, Artemis Alexiadou
Many adjectives in Modern Greek form both synthetic and analytic comparatives and relative superlatives. To our knowledge, this is the first work to examine the triggers of the Synthetic-Analytic (S-A) variation in this language by means of a corpus study. To date, numerous studies have shown that a series of predictors (phonological, lexical, syntactic) appear to influence the S-A variation in English
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Classical Greek object cases: A corpus-driven analysis of their distribution Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-16 A.J. Murphy, Stanley Dubinsky
We examine here the distribution of morphological case (e.g., accusative, genitive, and dative) among object complements of monotransitive verbs in Classical Greek (CG). Accusative-marked objects are generally deemed to be direct objects (DO), while dative- and genitive-marked complements are typically treated as syntactically or semantically separate, sometimes being treated as objects bearing ex
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Extraction and normalization of IR indexing terms and phrases in a highly inflectional language Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Panagiotis Gakis, Theodoros Kokkinos, Christos Tsalidis
Term-based indexing of documents is conventionally implemented by stemmers or their corpus-based improvements, both of which encode implicit linguistic information. Terms are directly derived from document content such that a unique indexing approach is available at indexing run-time. For highly inflectional languages where term variation is high, such techniques are more error-prone. The main focus
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Vowel hiatus resolution in Koine Greek: The evidence of spelling variations for the endings -ιος, -ιον, -ίου, -ίῳ in documentary papyri Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-16 José A. Berenguer-Sánchez
The spellings -ις, -ιν instead of -ιος, -ιον are a characteristic feature of Koine Greek. The circumstances in which they arose have constituted a vexed question. Their presence in Egyptian Greek documentary papyri from III BC to VIII AD stands out. Nowadays it is possible, thanks to new digital tools, to access all the regularized spellings in modern editions. Analysis and typological comparison allow
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The survival of the optative in New Testament Greek Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Michele Bianconi, Elisabetta Magni
This article offers new insights on the status of the optative in New Testament Greek, mapping it against the diachronic encoding of modality in Ancient Greek in light of typology and pragmatics. Virtually all available scholarship on the subject focusses on the ‘decline’ of the optative; in this article, we choose to focus on its survival in fixed expressions and specific types of speech acts. Through
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The Atticist lexica as metalinguistic resource for morphosyntactic change in Post-Classical Greek Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Ezra la Roi
While ancient metalinguistic resources such as lexica and scholia are increasingly studied in the field of ancient scholarship (Montanari 2020), they are investigated less within the historical sociolinguistics of Ancient Greek. Analysing the Atticist lexica by Phrynichus, Moeris and Aelius Dionysius, this article illustrates the historically persistent connection between social perception of and diachronic
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Parenthetical conditionals and insubordinate clauses in Ancient Greek: Protasis with βούλομαι (boúlomai) and (ἐ)θέλω (ethélō) Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Emilia Ruiz Yamuza
The purpose of the article is an in-depth study of the pragmatic and textual functions of several conditional clauses of ancient Greek constructed with verbs meaning “to want”. As a prior step, six types of structures are identified applying Thetical Grammar concepts and the idea of insubordination: five of these are parenthetical, and one is insubordinate. The structures work in the domain of speaker/hearer
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Referential vagueness, plurality, and discourse dependence: The case of Greek kapjos/kapjoi and Spanish algún/algunos Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Urtzi Etxeberria, Anastasia Giannakidou
Referentially vague (or ‘ignorance’) indefinites are known to exhibit apparently conflicting behavior: in the singular, they are referentially vague (Giannakidou and Quer 2013, Alonso-Ovalle and Menéndez-Benito 2010, 2011, 2013), but in the plural they appear to depend on a discourse given set. The phenomenon is typically discussed in the context of Spanish algún/algunos (Gutiérrez-Rexach 2001, 2010
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Double marking of the past in Early Modern Greek Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Nikos Koutsoukos, Eleni Karantzola
This paper examines double marking of the past feature in verbal formations with preverbs in Early Modern Greek (16th c.). This period is characterized by great linguistic variation reflected in every type of text. We compiled a dataset of 268 formations from a corpus which includes 250 excerpts of prose texts (155,717 words in total). Our analysis is based on quantitative and qualitative criteria
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A new phonological analysis of geminates in Cypriot Greek (and beyond) Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Nina Topintzi
Cypriot Greek geminates have been the subject of much past research and controversy. One major challenge has been their proper syllabification. Another involves their weight status. Taking stock of recent phonetic evidence that supports an inherent mora for Cypriot Greek geminates and tautosyllabicity on the basis of durational effects on the vowel that follows the geminate (Armosti 2011), I build
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Pseudo-coordination and serial verbs in Hellenistic Greek?: Some insights from the New Testament and the Septuagint Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Felicia Logozzo, Liana Tronci
This paper deals with Biblical Greek multiverb constructions in which two verbs, inflected in the same mood, person and number, are either coordinated by καί or asyndetically juxtaposed and relate to a single event. The first verb is semantically constrained (verb of motion), and does not govern any complement. In typological studies, these constructions are known as pseudo-coordinated and serialised
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The Homeric Dependency Lexicon: What it is and how to use it Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Chiara Zanchi
This paper presents the Homeric Dependency Lexicon (HoDeL), a new resource with a user-friendly interface facilitating the study of Homeric verbs and dependents. HoDeL was induced from the analytical layer of AGDT 2.0, extracting all dependents tagged as SBJ, OBJ, PNOM, and OCOMP with a set of SQL queries. The paper illustrates HoDeL functionalities and shows how they can be employed by researchers
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Penelope’s αἰνοπαθῆ (σ 201): Very old or very young? Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Jesse Lundquist
The Homeric hapax αἰνοπαθής ‘terribly suffering’ has been adduced as evidence for ancient processes of Indo-European word-formation. In particular, the vocalism of the root, α of -παθ-, would derive from *n̥, an ablaut grade conditioned by the accent on the ending -ής (a “hysterokinetic” s-stem adjective). I reexamine the passage where the word is found and argue the vocalism of -παθής reflects not
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Καλημέρα, kalimera or kalhmera?: A mixed methods study of Greek native speakers’ attitudes to using the Greek and Roman scripts in emails and SMS Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Evgenia Mouresioti, Marina Terkourafi
Although language attitudes are frequently investigated, how these attitudes change over time is studied less frequently, despite providing an interesting window into the link between attitudes and ideologies. Conducted some twenty years since the first studies on this topic, the current study provides an updated perspective into language attitudes toward the use of Roman-alphabeted Greek (henceforth
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Greek polydefinites revisited: Polydefiniteness as resumed relative clause modification Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Evripidis Tsiakmakis, Joan Borràs-Comes, M.Teresa Espinal
This article focuses on the interpretation of the adjectives that appear in Greek polydefinite DP s. It provides empirical support to the established position that restrictive modifiers are preferred in polydefinite environments (Kolliakou 1995). At the same time, it shows that non-restrictively modified polydefinites are not excluded by grammar (Manolessou 2000). To reconcile the facts, a novel syntactic
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The development of the Imperfect in Ancient Greek from simple past to imperfective as a blocking phenomenon Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Ian Hollenbaugh
This article seeks to combine the viewpoints of formal semantics and pragmatics, typology, historical linguistics, and philology, in order to give a diachronic overview of the semantic and pragmatic changes observable for the Imperfect indicative within the recorded history Greek. Since its development does not adhere to typologically expected stages of semantic change, I provide a pragmatic account
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A multifactorial analysis of differential agent marking in Herodotus Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-06-23 David Goldstein
Passive agents in ancient Greek exhibit a well-known alternation between dative case and prepositional phrase. It has long been recognized that grammatical aspect plays a crucial role in this alternation: dative agents preponderate among aspectually perfect predicates, prepositional phrase agents elsewhere. Although the importance of grammatical aspect is undeniable, it is not the only factor that
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Lemmatization for Ancient Greek: An experimental assessment of the state of the art Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Alessandro Vatri, Barbara McGillivray
This article presents the result of accuracy tests for currently available Ancient Greek lemmatizers and recently published lemmatized corpora. We ran a blinded experiment in which three highly proficient readers of Ancient Greek evaluated the output of the CLTK lemmatizer, of the CLTK backoff lemmatizer, and of GLEM, together with the lemmatizations offered by the Diorisis corpus and the Lemmatized
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The Greek language in Sicily between the Hellenistic Period and Late Antiquity: A contribution from an epigraphic corpus: Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, 2020 Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Marta Capano
My PhD dissertation (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale), entitled “Il greco in Sicilia fra età ellenistica e tarda antichità. Un contributo da un corpus epigrafico” (transl. “The Greek language in Sicily between the Hellenistic Period and Late Antiquity. A contribution from an epigraphic corpus”) offers a comprehensive analysis of the Greek language in post-classical Sicilian inscriptions
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The Dialect of Kythera. Description and Analysis, by Georgia Katsouda Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Brian D. Joseph
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Ditransitive ‘teach’ and the status of the Theme “argument”(?): Greek διδάσκειν as a case study Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Marina Benedetti
This paper offers new insights into the much-debated topic of double accusatives, taking διδάσκειν as a case study. By focussing on the different syntactic and semantic properties of the two accusatives in expressions such as διδάσκω σε σωφροσύνην ‘I teach you moderation’, it is shown that the mere reference to distinct semantic roles (Recipient vs Theme) does not provide a satisfactory account of
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A rephilologized diachronic analysis of “Post-Classical Greek”: Pitfalls and principles for progress Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Ezra la Roi
Picking up on the notion of “rephilologization” promoted by the editors of the 2020 volume Postclassical Greek as a recurring theme in the book under consideration here, I offer in this review article an overview and critique of the ways in which philological analysis intersects with grammatical and diachronic analysis in the 12 studies contained in this work. In addition, I discuss various pitfalls
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The linguistic relationships between Greek and the Anatolian languages: University of Oxford, 2019 Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Michele Bianconi
This summary presents the main findings of my DPhil. thesis, written under the supervision of Andreas Willi at the University of Oxford, on the linguistic relationships (with a particular emphasis on language contact) between Greek and the Anatolian languages between the second millennium and the first half of the first millennium BCE.
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Syntax-prosody mapping of Greek subject/object ambiguous clauses: Evidence from both a production and a comprehension task Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Maria Martzoukou, Despina Papadopoulou
The aim of the present study is threefold: (a) to explore whether Greek adults, who are non-trained speakers and naïve to the purpose of the study, use distinguishable prosodic cues, while producing subject/object ambiguous sentences, (b) to examine whether the same participants use prosody as an important informative cue, morphosyntax aside, in order to decode such ambiguities and (c) to investigate
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The syntax, semantics and pragmatics of ‘optional’ wh-in situ in Greek Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Christos Vlachos, Michalis Chiou
Building on the relevant literature, this paper provides an up-to-now missing overarching approach to ‘optional’ wh-in situ questions in Greek, by arguing that some properties of wh-in situ are computed at the interface between syntax and semantics, other properties relate to the syntax-pragmatics interface, and yet others are derived at the interface between PF and pragmatics. Wh-in situ is not semantically
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Changing alignments in the Greek of southern Italy Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Adam Ledgeway, Norma Schifano, Giuseppina Silvestri
This article investigates a peculiar pattern of subject case-marking in the Greek of southern Italy. Recent fieldwork with native speakers, coupled with the consultation of some written sources, reveals that, alongside prototypical nominative subjects, Italo-Greek also licenses accusative subjects, despite displaying a predominantly nominative-accusative alignment. Far from being random replacements
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Ancient Greek οι-stem: Semantics of a morphological category Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Carlos Monzó
The semantics of ancient Indo-European noun stems has not yet received enough attention from scholars. However, the noun stems exhibit an inner semantic coherence arranged in accordance with the basic linguistic principles of categorisation. My aim in this paper is to demonstrate the internal semantic coherence of the Ancient Greek οι-stem noun category and to compare it with other well-studied morphosemantic
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Institutional developments in Greek linguistics Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-06
In this piece, three items are presented that discuss recent developments in Modern Greek studies in three different academic institutions that have a positive impact on Greek linguistics.
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Language mixing in Palasa Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Brian D. Joseph, Rexhina Ndoci, Carly Dickerson
We explore here several kinds of language mixing to be found in the Greek-Albanian bilingual speech community of the village of Palasa in southern Albania. Palasa is of particular interest for Greek dialect studies because it offers a window in the present day into highly localized dynamics of language contact. Among the mixing observed in Palasa is code-switching, motivated by various factors as identified
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What Graeco-Roman Grammar Was About, by Peter Matthews Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Stefan Dollinger
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Morphosyntactic dependencies and verb movement in Cypriot Greek: University of Chicago, 2018 Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Natalia Pavlou
This summary presents the main findings of my Ph.D. dissertation (University of Chicago) on verbal morphology and the syntax of the verb in an understudied variety of Greek, namely Cypriot Greek. Allomorphy in the Cypriot verb is explored here by way of investigating the interaction of morphology and syntax.
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Form and function of clausal particles in the Linear B documents from Pylos Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Ester Salgarella
This paper sets out to explore an idiosyncratic linguistic feature only attested on a number of Linear B documents from Pylos, namely the occurrence of sequences of particles in clause-initial, and sometimes also tablet-initial, position. These sequences are o-a2, o-da-a2 and o-de-qa-a2. In this paper, a contextual analysis of the form and function of these sequences will be carried out in order to
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Dimensions of social meaning in Post-classical Greek: Towards an integrated approach Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Klaas Bentein
Especially in the first half of the twentieth century, language was viewed as a vehicle for the transmission of facts and ideas. Later on, scholars working in linguistic frameworks such as Functional and Cognitive Linguistics, (Historical) Sociolinguistics and Functional Sociolinguistics, have emphasized the social relevance of language, focusing, for example, on linguistic concepts such as deixis
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Nominal vs copular clauses in a diachronic corpus of Ancient Greek historians: A treebank-based analysis Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-06-12 Francesco Mambrini
We study the distribution of the nominal and copular construction of predicate nominals in a subset of authors from the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank (AGDT). We concentrate on the texts of the historians Herodotus, Thucydides (both 5th century BCE) and Polybius (2nd century BCE). The data comprise a sample of 440 sentences (Hdt = 175, Thuc = 91, Pol = 174). We analyze the impact of four features
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Adjective-Noun combinations in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy: Polydefiniteness revisited Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-06-12 Cristina Guardiano, Melita Stavrou
This paper investigates aspects of adjectival modification in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy. In Italiot Greek, prenominal adjectives obey restrictions that do not exist in Standard Modern Greek, where all types of adjectives are allowed in prenominal position. As far as postnominal adjectives are concerned, in the textual tradition of Calabria Greek there is evidence of postnominal adjectives
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Epistemic modality, particles and the potential optative in Classical Greek Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-06-12 Ezra la Roi
This paper challenges the commonly held view that the Classical Greek potential optative has a subjective epistemic semantics, the result of a conceptual confusion of subjectivity and epistemic modality inherited from our standard grammars. I propose that this view becomes less convincing when the optative’s unique interaction with the subjective particles ἦ and ἄρα is incorporated into the analysis
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The Ancient Greek sentence left periphery Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-11-22 Fulvio Beschi
AbstractThe pattern (Setting – Topic –) Focus. NB: The Verb always follows, which was proposed by H. Dik in order to describe AG’s left periphery, raises some issues. In particular, it presents a number of exceptions, which scholars (Matić and others) have variously attempted to resolve. In the present contribution, based on case studies drawn from Homer, the following pattern for the Homeric left
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Aorist voice patterns in the diachrony of Greek Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-11-22 Liana Tronci
AbstractThis paper deals with the aorist voice system in NT Greek and focuses on middle-passive markers, namely middle inflection, e.g. in the middle sigmatic aorist, and affixes -η-/-θη-, in the so-called passive aorist. The research is corpus-based and investigates the occurrences of ca. 1800 verbal items. According to the grammarians, in the NT both middle and passive aorists spread. The present
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Conjunctive adverbs in Ancient Greek Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-11-22 José Miguel Jiménez Delgado
AbstractConjunctive adverbs have generally been neglected in Ancient Greek grammars. In this language, textual cohesion is mostly assured by a battery of connective particles. While connective particles exhibit fixed position, conjunctive adverbs show a certain degree of positional variability. They usually take initial position, as well as medial position when preceded by a preposed constituent. Final
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Where does the modality of Ancient Greek modal verbs come from? Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-05-25 Serena Danesi, Johnson, Jóhanna Barðdal
Modality can be expressed through a variety of different linguistic means within and across languages, of which one manifestation is through noncanonical case marking of the subject. In Ancient Greek several predicates show a systematic alternation between constructions with nominative and oblique subjects, which coincides with a difference in meaning, yielding a modal meaning in the latter case. We
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Language contact, borrowing and code switching Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-05-25 Angeliki Alvanoudi
The present study is an in-depth investigation of the Greek language spoken by immigrants in Far North Queensland, Australia. The study focuses on contact-induced changes in the language, such as borrowing of lexemes and discourse patterns, and on code switching. The data analyzed derive from participant observation and some 23 hours of audio and video-recorded conversations with first- and second-generation
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Outcome of language contact Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-05-25 Sonja Dahlgren
This summary presents the main findings of my Ph.D. dissertation (University of Helsinki) on the phonological transfer of Egyptian on second language Greek usage in Egypt.
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Metapragmatic stereotypes about geographical diversity in Greece Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-05-25 Dimitris Papazachariou, Anna Fterniati, Argiris Archakis, Vasia Tsami
Over the past decades, contemporary sociolinguistics has challenged the existence of fixed and rigid linguistic boundaries, thus focusing on how the speakers themselves define language varieties and how specific linguistic choices end up being perceived as language varieties. In this light, the present paper explores the influence of metapragmatic stereotypes on elementary school pupils’ attitudes
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Connectives and discourse markers in Ancient Greek Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-05-25 Guglielmo Inglese
The Ancient Greek particle atar has been described as a connective device that encodes either an adversative or a progressive relation between sentences. The purpose of this paper is to revise the description of this particle by framing its analysis within a consistent and theoretically up-to-date model of clause linkage and discourse structure. Starting from previous findings on the function of atar
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Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek. Have- and Be- Constructions, written by Klaas Bentein Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Nikolaos Lavidas
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Decomposing EPP effects in Greek enclisis Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Marios Mavrogiorgos
This paper pursues the idea, originally proposed by Landau (2007), that the Extended Projection Principle is PF related on the basis of Greek enclisis. It is argued that the complementary distribution pattern attested with Cypriot Greek finite enclisis derives from the fact that the first head H c-selecting TP has a morpho-syntactic requirement, and a related PF/prosodic requirement subject to an Economy
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Finite vs. non-finite complementation in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Klaas Bentein
While Classical Greek has a particularly rich complementation system, in later times there is a tendency towards the use of finite complementation. In this context, Cristofaro (1996) has claimed that the Classical opposition whereby the accusative and infinitive is used for non-factive complements, and ὅτι with the indicative and the accusative and participle for factive ones, is disappearing, ὅτι
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Greek and Romance unagreement in Calabria Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Georg F.K. Höhn, Giuseppina Silvestri, M. Olimpia Squillaci
The term ‘unagreement’ describes configurations with an apparent person-mismatch between a typically definite plural subject and non-third person verbal agreement found in several null subject languages. Previous works have suggested that languages which have an obligatory definite article in adnominal pronoun constructions (APCs) allow unagreement (cf. standard modern Greek emeis oi glossologoi “we
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The Attic particle μήν Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Kees Thijs
The paper examines the various usages of the Attic particle μήν and proposes a unified analysis of its main function. I argue that the prevalent analysis of Wakker (1997) needs some important reconsideration when instances of μήν in Platonic dialogue are concerned. First, the particle can target not only the propositional content of a discourse act, but also its illocution (felicity conditions). Second
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The morphosyntax of the periphrastic future under negation in Cypriot Greek Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Jason Merchant, Natalia Pavlou
In Cypriot Greek, the negated future is marked by the element tha, which appears instead of the expected present tense copula and a selected subordinating element. This paper documents the distribution of this item for the first time, and presents an analysis in Distributed Morphology that analyzes tha as a portmanteau morpheme realizing two heads in the context of negation. This analysis requires
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Representing discourse in clausal syntax Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Metin Bağrıaçık
In Pharasiot Greek, an Asia Minor Greek dialect, a certain particle copied from Turkish, ki, is employed in a number of seemingly unrelated constructions. Close scrutiny, however, reveals that in each of these constructions, ki is employed as a device geared to influencing the interlocutor’s epistemic vigilance. Based on the Cartographic Approach which defends the syntactization of the interpretive
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Auxiliary verb constructions and clitic placement Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Nikos Liosis
The Tsakonian clitic system possesses a clitic auxiliary with the same syntactic and prosodic properties as the object clitic pronouns with which it may cluster preverbally or postverbally. The clitics of the two Tsakonian subdialects (Peloponnesian Tsakonian and Propontis Tsakonian) differ typologically since the latter has second position clitics but the former does not. It is shown here that Peloponnesian
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Morphosyntactic variation in Modern Greek dialects Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Marika Lekakou
This introduction lays out the issues in the study of morphosyntactic variation in Modern Greek dialects and summarizes the contents of the papers included herein.
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Concessive Participles and Epitactic Constructions in Ancient Greek Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-01-01 José Miguel Jiménez Delgado
The purpose of this paper is to explain the construction of concessive participles introduced by kai tauta in Ancient Greek as an instance of epitaxis, a specific type of coordination. This construction will be differentiated from the concessive participles introduced by adverbial kai , the usual construction, by its syntactic configuration and pragmatics. The data is drawn from the works of Xenophon
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Mean Length of Utterance in Cypriot Greek-speaking Children Journal of Greek Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Louiza Voniati
While research undertaken worldwide indicates that mean length of utterance ( MLU ) is a valuable index in investigations of child language development, to date there have been no studies exploring MLU in pre-primary Cypriot Greek ( CYG )-speaking children. The participants in this study were 36 monolingual CYG -speaking children at ages 36, 40, 44 and 48 months, with a typical course of language development