Main description:
This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this Conference, the aim of which was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should provide the linguistic community with a comprehensive work presenting the state-of-the-art in Greek Linguistics and covering a wide multidisciplinary spectrum of current research.
The papers are organised into six sections. Section I contains the papers of the four invited speakers. George Babiniotis discusses the contribution of linguistic theory to the teaching of Greek, Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou and Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman each present an overview of the relevance of, respectively, syntactic and phonological theories to Greek, and Brian D. Joseph explores a specific theoretical issue, the pro-drop parameter. Section II brings together papers on syntax, semantics and pragmatics which examine theoretical and descriptive issues within current models such as Principles Parameters, HPSG, Relevance Theory and others. Section III covers phonology and phonetics and also presents research on theoretical issues such as government phonology, the phonology-morphology interface, as well as descriptive issues including the instrumental investigation of selected phonetic phenomena. Section IV covers discourse and style and deals with spoken and written discourse including miscommunication, metaphor and issues on politeness. Section V on variations and extensions consists of papers on Ancient and Modern Greek dialects such as Macedonian, Cypriot, and Pontic, as well as issues on social and geographical varieties, diglossia and language acquisition. Section VI presents papers relating to the use of computers for the analysis, translation and teaching of Greek. Finally, an index of authors, languages and main key words completes the volume.
Table of contents:
- List of contributors
- I. Plenary papers
- Contemporary linguistics and the teaching of modern Greek
- Transformational grammar and modern Greek syntax
- On weak subjects and pro-drop in Greek
- New approaches to some problems of Greek phonology
- II. Syntax-semantics-pragmatics
- Verb movement and minimal clauses
- Verb movement and clitics in modern Greek
- The properties of Pu-complements in modern Greek
- On the interaction of case and definiteness in modern Greek
- Visibility versus suppression
- Post verbal subjects, reduplicated objects or retopicalisation?
- Checking theory, subject extraction, and the theory of movement
- Non-pronominal anaphora interpretation in modern Greek
- Spare determineers in modern Greek noun phrases
- Some remarks on DPs in modern Greek
- Syntactic indeterminacy in the light of prepositional constructions
- The pragmatic category 6;perfect'
- The interaction of lexical and grammatical aspect in modern Greek
- On aspectual and temporal adverbs
- Specification of temporal intervals and situations in the perfect
- Problems of Greek aspect morphology and the identification of projection for tense and aspect
- Structural and cross-linguistic regularities in the history of three particles
- Na-interrogatives in modern Greek
- Mood and modality in modern Greek
- The verbs @@ and cilt 117 in modern Greek
- III. Phonology-phonetics
- Stress domains in Greek compounds
- Government and element-licensing
- Naturally occuring hiatus in modern Greek
- Aspects of lingual articulation in Greek
- On the intonation of several modern Greek sentences
- The intonation of modern Greek as produced by 9'18 year old British born speakers of Greek origin
- IV. Discourse and style
- Conceptual metaphor in Greek financial discourse
- Linguistic attitudes and metalinguistic discourse
- 6;If it was your sister'?'
- Miscommunication in the discourse of Greek In-groups
- The historical present in Modern Greek narratives
- The use of diminutives and augmentatives in Modern Greek
- Lexical density as a characteristic of the discourse of history of Greek textbooks
- The power of politeness in the Greek EFL classroom
- A stylistic study of the 6;Odes' of Andrea Kalvos
- Mood in the chronicle of Leontios Machairas
- V. Variations and extensions
- The Acquisition of conditionals in Greek
- Morphology and word order in the processing of Greek sentences
- The development of subordinate clauses in the language of Greek Children
- The concept of Diglossia from Ferguson to Fishman to Fasold
- Discourse marking in Australian Greek
- Towards a formal analysis of the Greek-French Code-switching in Paris
- Lexical Borrowing in immigrant varieties of Greek
- Morphological variation of the passive imperfect in modern Greek
- Semantic-intonation units on One word Yes/no questions
- A case of whistled speech from Greece
- Language change under way? The case of the definite article in modern Greek
- Infinitival constructions and case assignment
- Problems in diachronic syntax
- Ancient greek dialects in northern Greece
- Spatial expressions in Byzantine vernecular Greek
- Son of Wackernagel
- The semantic adaptation of Turkish Loan-words in the greek Cypriotic dialect
- The history of Cypriot Greek mirrors the history of the island
- Ethnic Greek group of Tsalka and tetritskaro(Georgia)
- Modern Greek in the Romanian principalities
- VI. Language and computers
- The commission's SYSTRAN English-Greek Machine translational systems
- A computational model for the morphological analysis of the modern greek noun category
- Greek terminology within the multilingual environment of EURODICAUTOM
- Modern Greek on the microcomputer
- A corpus-based approach to modern Greek language research and teaching
- Support-nouns
- Index of authors
- Index of topics and languages
This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this Conference, the aim of which was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should provide the linguistic community with a comprehensive work presenting the state-of-the-art in Greek Linguistics and covering a wide multidisciplinary spectrum of current research.
The papers are organised into six sections. Section I contains the papers of the four invited speakers. George Babiniotis discusses the contribution of linguistic theory to the teaching of Greek, Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou and Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman each present an overview of the relevance of, respectively, syntactic and phonological theories to Greek, and Brian D. Joseph explores a specific theoretical issue, the pro-drop parameter. Section II brings together papers on syntax, semantics and pragmatics which examine theoretical and descriptive issues within current models such as Principles Parameters, HPSG, Relevance Theory and others. Section III covers phonology and phonetics and also presents research on theoretical issues such as government phonology, the phonology-morphology interface, as well as descriptive issues including the instrumental investigation of selected phonetic phenomena. Section IV covers discourse and style and deals with spoken and written discourse including miscommunication, metaphor and issues on politeness. Section V on variations and extensions consists of papers on Ancient and Modern Greek dialects such as Macedonian, Cypriot, and Pontic, as well as issues on social and geographical varieties, diglossia and language acquisition. Section VI presents papers relating to the use of computers for the analysis, translation and teaching of Greek. Finally, an index of authors, languages and main key words completes the volume.
Table of contents:
- List of contributors
- I. Plenary papers
- Contemporary linguistics and the teaching of modern Greek
- Transformational grammar and modern Greek syntax
- On weak subjects and pro-drop in Greek
- New approaches to some problems of Greek phonology
- II. Syntax-semantics-pragmatics
- Verb movement and minimal clauses
- Verb movement and clitics in modern Greek
- The properties of Pu-complements in modern Greek
- On the interaction of case and definiteness in modern Greek
- Visibility versus suppression
- Post verbal subjects, reduplicated objects or retopicalisation?
- Checking theory, subject extraction, and the theory of movement
- Non-pronominal anaphora interpretation in modern Greek
- Spare determineers in modern Greek noun phrases
- Some remarks on DPs in modern Greek
- Syntactic indeterminacy in the light of prepositional constructions
- The pragmatic category 6;perfect'
- The interaction of lexical and grammatical aspect in modern Greek
- On aspectual and temporal adverbs
- Specification of temporal intervals and situations in the perfect
- Problems of Greek aspect morphology and the identification of projection for tense and aspect
- Structural and cross-linguistic regularities in the history of three particles
- Na-interrogatives in modern Greek
- Mood and modality in modern Greek
- The verbs @@ and cilt 117 in modern Greek
- III. Phonology-phonetics
- Stress domains in Greek compounds
- Government and element-licensing
- Naturally occuring hiatus in modern Greek
- Aspects of lingual articulation in Greek
- On the intonation of several modern Greek sentences
- The intonation of modern Greek as produced by 9'18 year old British born speakers of Greek origin
- IV. Discourse and style
- Conceptual metaphor in Greek financial discourse
- Linguistic attitudes and metalinguistic discourse
- 6;If it was your sister'?'
- Miscommunication in the discourse of Greek In-groups
- The historical present in Modern Greek narratives
- The use of diminutives and augmentatives in Modern Greek
- Lexical density as a characteristic of the discourse of history of Greek textbooks
- The power of politeness in the Greek EFL classroom
- A stylistic study of the 6;Odes' of Andrea Kalvos
- Mood in the chronicle of Leontios Machairas
- V. Variations and extensions
- The Acquisition of conditionals in Greek
- Morphology and word order in the processing of Greek sentences
- The development of subordinate clauses in the language of Greek Children
- The concept of Diglossia from Ferguson to Fishman to Fasold
- Discourse marking in Australian Greek
- Towards a formal analysis of the Greek-French Code-switching in Paris
- Lexical Borrowing in immigrant varieties of Greek
- Morphological variation of the passive imperfect in modern Greek
- Semantic-intonation units on One word Yes/no questions
- A case of whistled speech from Greece
- Language change under way? The case of the definite article in modern Greek
- Infinitival constructions and case assignment
- Problems in diachronic syntax
- Ancient greek dialects in northern Greece
- Spatial expressions in Byzantine vernecular Greek
- Son of Wackernagel
- The semantic adaptation of Turkish Loan-words in the greek Cypriotic dialect
- The history of Cypriot Greek mirrors the history of the island
- Ethnic Greek group of Tsalka and tetritskaro(Georgia)
- Modern Greek in the Romanian principalities
- VI. Language and computers
- The commission's SYSTRAN English-Greek Machine translational systems
- A computational model for the morphological analysis of the modern greek noun category
- Greek terminology within the multilingual environment of EURODICAUTOM
- Modern Greek on the microcomputer
- A corpus-based approach to modern Greek language research and teaching
- Support-nouns
- Index of authors
- Index of topics and languages