Current trends in Greek linguistics
By: edited by Georgia Fragaki, Thanasis Georgakopoulos and Charalambos Themistocleous
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781443840255
Subjects: Modern Greek language; Grammar
Description: "'Current Trends in Greek Linguistics' is a collection of fifteen papers written by junior researchers of Greek linguistics. Our aim in editing this volume has been to highlight the ongoing linguistic research taking place in Greek. The collected papers attempt to look into issues that have already been discussed in the literature from a fresh perspective and bring to the fore aspects of the Greek language that have not been extensively examined so far. The authors follow both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, as well as a variety of theoretical frameworks, including cognitive linguistics, formal linguistics, corpus linguistics, variational sociolinguistics, critical discourse analyis, etc. Through the application of theoretical concepts and the analysis of empirical data, the papers address a wide range of topics such as lexical temporal expressions and the conceptualisation of time, the subjunctive mood and its semantic features, adjective evaluation, strategies of verbal humour, the role of social phenomena such as prosody, tonal structure and hiatus resolution, aphasic speech, and the teaching of lexical clusters and idioms. It should be noted that the papers were peer-reviewed in several stages and this process contributed significantly to the exchange of ideas and the development of the arguments presented by the authors"--Introduction, p. [1].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Aspects of meaning. --; title: Lexical temporal expressions : cognitive structuring and textual distribution  -- Yannis Kostopoulos -- Conventionality and creativity in the conceptualisation of time : evidence from Modern Greek / -- Anna Piata; title: The modern Greek subjunctive mood and its semantic features  -- Konstantinos Sampanis; title: Textual and sociolinguistic approaches.; title: Devices of evaluation : a corpus-based study of Greek adjectives  -- Georgia Fragaki; title: Learned elements as a strategy of verbal humour : evidence from young speakers of Standard Modern Greek  -- Maria Kamilaki -- Women, language and stereotypes : evidence form a rural community of Greece / -- Nikos Vergis -- A sociolinguistic profile of the generation of 700 Euros / -- Irene Theodoropoulou; title: "Greek December" in political and media discourse : analysing the PM's addresses and newspaper reports  -- George Polymeneas; title: Phonetics and phonology.; title: The acoustics of Cypriot Greek post-lexical gemination : the case of plosives and affricates  -- Spyros Armosti -- The acoustics of prosodic conditioning of vowel hiatus resolution in Modern Greek / -- Evia Kainada -- Meaning and form in tonal representation / -- Charalambos K. Themistocleous; title: Clinical linguistics and language teaching.; title: Clitic production in Greek aphasia : a single case study  -- Michaela Nerantzini; title: Quantitative and error analysis of connected speech : evidence from Greek-speaking patients with aphasia and normal speakers  -- Maria Vasrkanitsa; title: Idiom comprehension in Greek as a second language  -- Georgia Sykara; title: Lexical clusters in Greek and English : a contrastive analysis and its implications for teaching -- Hector Ferlas.