Index of topics and languages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of contributors xiii
5. I. Plenary papers
6. Contemporary linguistics and the teaching of modern Greek 1
7. Transformational grammar and modern Greek syntax 11
8. On weak subjects and pro-drop in Greek 21
9. New approaches to some problems of Greek phonology 33
10. II. Syntax-semantics-pragmatics
11. Verb movement and minimal clauses 45
12. Verb movement and clitics in modern Greek 53
13. The properties of Pu-complements in modern Greek 61
14. On the interaction of case and definiteness in modern Greek 69
15. Visibility versus suppression 77
16. Post verbal subjects, reduplicated objects or retopicalisation? 85
17. Checking theory, subject extraction, and the theory of movement 93
18. Non-pronominal anaphora interpretation in modern Greek 101
19. Spare determineers in modern Greek noun phrases 107
20. Some remarks on DPs in modern Greek 115
21. Syntactic indeterminacy in the light of prepositional constructions 123
22. The pragmatic category ‘perfect’ 129
23. The interaction of lexical and grammatical aspect in modern Greek 137
24. On aspectual and temporal adverbs 145
25. Specification of temporal intervals and situations in the perfect 153
26. Problems of Greek aspect morphology and the identification of projection for tense and aspect 161
27. Structural and cross-linguistic regularities in the history of three particles 169
28. Na -interrogatives in modern Greek 177
29. Mood and modality in modern Greek 185
30. The verbs @@ and cilt 117 in modern Greek 193
31. III. Phonology-phonetics
32. Stress domains in Greek compounds 201
33. Government and element-licensing 209
34. Naturally occuring hiatus in modern Greek 217
35. Aspects of lingual articulation in Greek 225
36. On the intonation of several modern Greek sentences 233
37. The intonation of modern Greek as produced by 9–18 year old British born speakers of Greek origin 241
38. IV. Discourse and style
39. Conceptual metaphor in Greek financial discourse 249
40. Linguistic attitudes and metalinguistic discourse 253
41. ‘If it was your sister…?’ 261
42. Miscommunication in the discourse of Greek In-groups 269
43. The historical present in Modern Greek narratives 277
44. The use of diminutives and augmentatives in Modern Greek 283
45. Lexical density as a characteristic of the discourse of history of Greek textbooks 289
46. The power of politeness in the Greek EFL classroom 297
47. A stylistic study of the ‘Odes’ of Andrea Kalvos 305
48. Mood in the chronicle of Leontios Machairas 313
49. V. Variations and extensions
50. The Acquisition of conditionals in Greek 319
51. Morphology and word order in the processing of Greek sentences 325
52. The development of subordinate clauses in the language of Greek Children 333
53. The concept of Diglossia from Ferguson to Fishman to Fasold 341
54. Discourse marking in Australian Greek 349
55. Towards a formal analysis of the Greek-French Code-switching in Paris 357
56. Lexical Borrowing in immigrant varieties of Greek 365
57. Morphological variation of the passive imperfect in modern Greek 373
58. Semantic-intonation units on One word Yes/no questions 381
59. A case of whistled speech from Greece 389
60. Language change under way? The case of the definite article in modern Greek 397
61. Infinitival constructions and case assignment 405
62. Problems in diachronic syntax 413
63. Ancient greek dialects in northern Greece 421
64. Spatial expressions in Byzantine vernecular Greek 427
65. Son of Wackernagel 435
66. The semantic adaptation of Turkish Loan-words in the greek Cypriotic dialect 443
67. The history of Cypriot Greek mirrors the history of the island 449
68. Ethnic Greek group of Tsalka and tetritskaro(Georgia) 457
69. Modern Greek in the Romanian principalities 463
70. VI. Language and computers
71. The commission’s SYSTRAN English-Greek Machine translational systems 471
72. A computational model for the morphological analysis of the modern greek noun category 483
73. Greek terminology within the multilingual environment of EURODICAUTOM 491
74. Modern Greek on the microcomputer 499
75. A corpus-based approach to modern Greek language research and teaching 507
76. Support-nouns 515
77. Index of authors 521
78. Index of topics and languages 529