Studies in the Morpho-Syntax of Greek

Artemis Alexiadou

Mar 2009 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

About this ebook

The volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative work on Modern Greek morpho-syntax.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I of the book deals with argument alternations, part II with clitics and part III with the syntax and semantics of free relatives.

The book will be interesting for scholars working on Greek but also in theoretical linguistics, as it exemplifies how the study of Greek feeds the development of generative theory.

The issues discussed in the book are currently highly relevant for the develop­ment of a satisfactory theory of comparative syntax as well as the interface between syntax and morphology and syntax and semantics. Thus the analyses put forth here will contribute to the elaboration of such a theory and to our understanding of cross-linguistic variation.

About the author

Artemis Alexiadou is Professor of Theoretical and English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart.

Her special interests are in the interfaces between syntax and morphology and syntax and the lexicon.

Her publications include Adverb Placement (Benjamins 1997), Functional structure in nominals (Benjamins 2001) Noun phrase in the generative perspective (Mout de Gruyter 2007, co-authored with Liliane Haegeman and Melita Stavrou).

She is currently working on a number of projects , including the form and interpretation of nominals, modification and verbal alternations.