Soteria Svorou

List of John Benjamins publications in which Soteria Svorou is involved.

Title

The Grammar of Space

Soteria Svorou

A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 25] 1994. xiv, 290 pp.

Articles

Svorou, Soteria 2018 Constructional pressures on ‘sit’ in Modern Greek Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. 17–58 | Chapter

This study argues for a constructional account of the non-postural senses of Modern Greek verb kaθοme ‘I sit’. Corpus data provide a detailed account of the constructional pressures on kaθοme as V1 in conjunctive coordination of verbs (V1 and V2) and show that the non-postural senses emerge in… read more

Svorou, Soteria 2002 Semantic constraints in the grammaticalization of locative constructions New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 121–142 | Article