John Benjamins: Book details for Themes in Greek Linguistics [CILT 117]

List of contributors
I. Plenary papers
Contemporary linguistics and the teaching of modern Greek George Babiniotis	1
Transformational grammar and modern Greek syntax: an overview and some ‘problematic’ cases Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou	11
On weak subjects and pro-drop in Greek Brian D. Joseph	21
New approaches to some problems of Greek phonology Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman	33
II. Syntax-semantics-pragmatics
Verb movement and minimal clauses Gaberell Drachman	45
Verb movement and clitics in modern Greek Irene Philippaki-Warburton	53
The properties of Pu-complements in modern Greek Spyridoula Varlokosta	61
On the interaction of case and definiteness in modern Greek Anna Roussou and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli	69
Visibility versus suppression Stella Markantonatou	77
Post verbal subjects, reduplicated objects or retopicalisation? Maria Valiouli	85
Checking theory, subject extraction, and the theory of movement George Tsoulas	93
Non-pronominal anaphora interpretation in modern Greek Eleni Efthimiou	101
Spare determineers in modern Greek noun phrases: An HPSG account Dimitra Kolliakou	107
Some remarks on DPs in modern Greek Evangelia Mouma	115
Syntactic indeterminacy in the light of prepositional constructions Fotis A. Kavoukopoulos	123
The pragmatic category ‘perfect’ Ioannis Veloudis	129
The interaction of lexical and grammatical aspect in modern Greek Amalia Moser	137
On aspectual and temporal adverbs Artemis Alexiadou	145
Specification of temporal intervals and situations in the perfect Angeliki Psaltou-Joycey	153
Problems of Greek aspect morphology and the identification of projection for tense and aspect Ioanna Malagardi	161
Structural and cross-linguistic regularities in the history of three particles Anastasios-F. Christidis and Kiki Nikiforidou	169
Na-interrogatives in modern Greek: Their interpretation and relevance Villy Rouchota	177
Mood and modality in modern Greek: The particle Na Rhea Delveroudi, Irene Tsamadou and Sophia Vassilaki	185
The verbs @@ and cilt 117 in modern Greek Simos Grammanidis	193
III. Phonology-phonetics
Stress domains in Greek compounds: A case of morphology-phonology interaction Marina Nespor and Angela Ralli	201
Government and element-licensing: the modern Greek evidence Stamatia Pagoni-Tetlow	209
Naturally occuring hiatus in modern Greek Paul D. Fallon	217
Aspects of lingual articulation in Greek: an electropalatographic study Katerina Nicolaidis	225
On the intonation of several modern Greek sentences Ineke Mennen* and Els den Os*	233
The intonation of modern Greek as produced by 9–18 year old British born speakers of Greek origin Anastasia Georgountzou	241
IV. Discourse and style
Conceptual metaphor in Greek financial discourse Sophia S.A. Marmaridou	247
Linguistic attitudes and metalinguistic discourse: An investigation in the Cypriot press Marilena Karyolemou	253
‘If it was your sister…?’: Personalisation in arguments Christina Kakava	261
Miscommunication in the discourse of Greek In-groups Angeliki Tzanne	269
The historical present in Modern Greek narratives Cornelia Paraskevas	277
The use of diminutives and augmentatives in Modern Greek Evita C. Alexopoulos	283
Lexical density as a characteristic of the discourse of history of Greek textbooks Constandina Economou	289
The power of politeness in the Greek EFL classroom Violetta Aeginitou	297
A stylistic study of the ‘Odes’ of Andrea Kalvos: Original metaphors and syntagmatic relations Chryssoula Karantzi	305
Mood in the chronicle of Leontios Machairas Nadia Anaxagorou	313
V. Variations and extensions
The Acquisition of conditionals in Greek Demetra Katis	319
Morphology and word order in the processing of Greek sentences: A crosslinguistic and developmental study Michele Kail and Kleopatra Diakogiorgi	325
The development of subordinate clauses in the language of Greek Children Yannis Baslis	333
The concept of Diglossia from Ferguson to Fishman to Fasold Periklis Daltas	341
Discourse marking in Australian Greek: Code interaction and communicative resourcing Leo Papademetre	349
Towards a formal analysis of the Greek-French Code-switching in Paris George Androulakis	357
Lexical Borrowing in immigrant varieties of Greek Aspassia G. Hatzidaki	365
Morphological variation of the passive imperfect in modern Greek Anna Iordanidou	373
Semantic-intonation units on One word Yes/no questions Dimitris Papazachariou	381
A case of whistled speech from Greece Christophoros Charalambakis	389
Language change under way? The case of the definite article in modern Greek Athena Apostolou-Panara	397
Infinitival constructions and case assignment: a case of a consecutive fromula in the delphic Corpus Maria Karali	405
Problems in diachronic syntax: Free relatives in medieval and modern Greek Despina Chila-Markopoulou	413
Ancient greek dialects in northern Greece Anna B. Panayotou	421
Spatial expressions in Byzantine vernecular Greek Takashi Tachibana	427
Son of Wackernagel: The distribution of object clitic pronouns in Cappadocian Mark Janse	435
The semantic adaptation of Turkish Loan-words in the greek Cypriotic dialect Pavlos Pavlou	443
The history of Cypriot Greek mirrors the history of the island: example the medieval period Maria Tsiapera	449
Ethnic Greek group of Tsalka and tetritskaro(Georgia) Fatima A. Eloyeva	457
Modern Greek in the Romanian principalities: The 18th century Lia Brad Chisacof	463
VI. Language and computers
The commission’s SYSTRAN English-Greek Machine translational systems Angeliki Petrits, Penelope Lembessi and Sophia Roussou	471
A computational model for the morphological analysis of the modern greek noun category Panelope Lembessi	483
Greek terminology within the multilingual environment of EURODICAUTOM Panagiota Kalamvoka	491
Modern Greek on the microcomputer: The ‘Grevoc’ project Bo-Lennart Eklund	499
A corpus-based approach to modern Greek language research and teaching Dionysis Goutsos, Ourania Hatzidaki and Philip King	507
Support-nouns: application to the special lexicon of tennis Elsa Sklavounou	515
Index of authors	521
Index of topics and languages	529

Themes in Greek Linguistics

Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993

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