Studies in Greek Syntax

✍ Scribed by Artemis Alexiadou, Geoffrey Horrocks, Melita Stavrou (auth.), Artemis Alexiadou, Geoffrey Horrocks, Melita Stavrou (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 43
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains thirteen studies on various aspects of Greek syntax, as well as a general introduction by the editors. In recent years, the study of Greek has become important for the development of generative theory. The various contributions to this volume demonstrate clearly how much the field of Greek syntax has grown both in range and depth. The topics investigated include the phrase structure of clauses and nominal phrases, clitics in standard Greek and in dialects, the licensing of negative polarity items, the nature of sentential operators, control, argument structure and compounds. The studies highlight the importance of Greek for the development of a satisfactory theory of comparative syntax.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-V
Introduction....Pages 1-21
Propositional Operators....Pages 23-44
On the Properties of Some Greek Word Order Patterns....Pages 45-65
On Experiencers....Pages 67-93
On Clitics, Prepositions and Case Licensing in Standard and Macedonian Greek....Pages 95-112
Weak and Strong Polarity: Evidence from Greek....Pages 113-133
Clitic Placement and the Projection of Functional Categories....Pages 135-152
On Control in Greek....Pages 153-168
Modals and the Subjunctive....Pages 169-183
Theta-Role Saturation in Greek Compounds....Pages 185-199
The Position and Serialization of APs in the DP: Evidence from Greek....Pages 201-225
Cypriot Greek Clitics and Their Positioning Restrictions....Pages 227-240
Null Operators, Clitics and Identification: A Comparison between Greek and English....Pages 241-262
Tense and Temporal Adverbials in Greek....Pages 263-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-286

✦ Subjects

Syntax; Greek; Theoretical Languages; Comparative Linguistics; Semantics