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Table of contents
List of contributors
I. Plenary papers
Contemporary linguistics and the teaching of modern Greek1 Transformational grammar and modern Greek syntax: an overview and some ‘problematic’ cases11 On weak subjects and pro-drop in Greek21 New approaches to some problems of Greek phonology33 II. Syntax-semantics-pragmatics
Verb movement and minimal clauses45 Verb movement and clitics in modern Greek53 The properties of Pu-complements in modern Greek61 On the interaction of case and definiteness in modern Greek69 Visibility versus suppression77 Post verbal subjects, reduplicated objects or retopicalisation?85 Checking theory, subject extraction, and the theory of movement93 Non-pronominal anaphora interpretation in modern Greek101 Spare determineers in modern Greek noun phrases: An HPSG account107 Some remarks on DPs in modern Greek115 Syntactic indeterminacy in the light of prepositional constructions123 The pragmatic category ‘perfect’129 The interaction of lexical and grammatical aspect in modern Greek137 On aspectual and temporal adverbs145 Specification of temporal intervals and situations in the perfect153 Problems of Greek aspect morphology and the identification of projection for tense and aspect161 Structural and cross-linguistic regularities in the history of three particles169 Na-interrogatives in modern Greek: Their interpretation and relevance177 Mood and modality in modern Greek: The particle Na185 The verbs @@ and cilt 117 in modern Greek193 III. Phonology-phonetics
Stress domains in Greek compounds: A case of morphology-phonology interaction201 Government and element-licensing: the modern Greek evidence209 Naturally occuring hiatus in modern Greek217 Aspects of lingual articulation in Greek: an electropalatographic study225 On the intonation of several modern Greek sentences233 The intonation of modern Greek as produced by 9–18 year old British born speakers of Greek origin241 IV. Discourse and style
Conceptual metaphor in Greek financial discourse247 Linguistic attitudes and metalinguistic discourse: An investigation in the Cypriot press253 ‘If it was your sister…?’: Personalisation in arguments261 Miscommunication in the discourse of Greek In-groups269 The historical present in Modern Greek narratives277 The use of diminutives and augmentatives in Modern Greek283 Lexical density as a characteristic of the discourse of history of Greek textbooks289 The power of politeness in the Greek EFL classroom297 A stylistic study of the ‘Odes’ of Andrea Kalvos: Original metaphors and syntagmatic relations305 Mood in the chronicle of Leontios Machairas313 V. Variations and extensions
The Acquisition of conditionals in Greek319 Morphology and word order in the processing of Greek sentences: A crosslinguistic and developmental study325 The development of subordinate clauses in the language of Greek Children333 The concept of Diglossia from Ferguson to Fishman to Fasold341 Discourse marking in Australian Greek: Code interaction and communicative resourcing349 Towards a formal analysis of the Greek-French Code-switching in Paris357 Lexical Borrowing in immigrant varieties of Greek365 Morphological variation of the passive imperfect in modern Greek373 Semantic-intonation units on One word Yes/no questions381 A case of whistled speech from Greece389 Language change under way? The case of the definite article in modern Greek397 Infinitival constructions and case assignment: a case of a consecutive fromula in the delphic Corpus405 Problems in diachronic syntax: Free relatives in medieval and modern Greek413 Ancient greek dialects in northern Greece421 Spatial expressions in Byzantine vernecular Greek427 Son of Wackernagel: The distribution of object clitic pronouns in Cappadocian435 The semantic adaptation of Turkish Loan-words in the greek Cypriotic dialect443 The history of Cypriot Greek mirrors the history of the island: example the medieval period449 Ethnic Greek group of Tsalka and tetritskaro(Georgia)457 Modern Greek in the Romanian principalities: The 18th century463 VI. Language and computers
The commission’s SYSTRAN English-Greek Machine translational systems471 A computational model for the morphological analysis of the modern greek noun category483 Greek terminology within the multilingual environment of EURODICAUTOM491 Modern Greek on the microcomputer: The ‘Grevoc’ project499 A corpus-based approach to modern Greek language research and teaching507 Support-nouns: application to the special lexicon of tennis515 Index of authors521
Index of topics and languages529
