Proceedings, 6th International Symposium on the Description and/or Comparison of English and Greek, April 15-17, 1992
Publisher: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Thessaloniki
Language: eng; gre
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: English language; Comparative Grammar; Greek; Greek language; English; Analogy (Linguistics)
Other titles: Proceedings, Sixth International Symposium on the Description and/or Comparison of English and Greek, April 15-17, 1992; Description and/or comparison of English and Greek; Description/comparison of English and Greek; Proceedings, Sixth International Symposium on the Description and/or Comparison of English and Greek.; Description/comparison of English and Greek.; Description and/or comparison of English and Greek.
Notes: At head of title: School of English, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.

On spine: Description/comparison of English and Greek.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: English papers. Why synonymy is rare: an evolutionary explanation / James R. Hurford; title: Conflation / Athanasios Kakouriotis; title: Classics in a cold climate: tradition, changes, continuity / John Ellis Jones; title: Discourse motivations for the use of the perfect in modern Greek / Angeliki Psaltou-Joycey; title: Greek and English readers' accuracy and confidence when inferencing meanings of unknown words / Penelope Kambakis-Vougiouklis; title: Periphrastic verbs in modern Greek as a means of functional sentence perspective / Theodoros Skenderis; title: Texture in translation: cohesive and thematic aspects of English and Greek texts / Dionysis Goutsos; title: Advertising and nature conservation through grammar, genre and social context / Jenny Stefanou; title: Pragmalinguistic failure in letters of application / Carl James, Phil Scholfield and George Ypsiladis; title: The historical present in Greek personal experience narratives: a discourse-pragmatic approach / Alexandra Georgakopoulou; title: The ausbau sociolinguistics of Greek as a minority and majority language / Peter Trudgill; title: Discursive practices of consumerism / Norman Fairclough; title: Laughter as an official conversational activity / Marianthi Makri-Tsilipakou, Polyxeni Malli and Sofia Agoritsa; title: The phonetics and phonology of stress clashes in Greek / Amalia Arvaniti; title: Anomalous left capture of English / John C. Wells