Compounding in Modern Greek

Ralli, Angela

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“…While each member of a compound has its own primary stress in isolation, it is claimed that in combination the pattern is crucially different from that of English, with the first member losing its original stress as part of the compound formation process. The entire string then exhibits a single stress (e.g., Nespor and Vogel 1986;Nespor and Ralli 1996;Ralli, 2013). Since the presence of a main (lexical) stress is considered to be a property of the Phonological Word constituent, a structure that exhibits only a single stress is thus considered to constitute a single PW.…”

Section: Compound Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Compounds in Modern Greek

Athanasopoulou¹,

Vogel²

2015

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

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In the present study, the acoustic properties associated with stress in compounds in Modern Greek are investigated. Specifically, the claim that Greek compounds consist of a single Phonological Word is tested since it has been argued, based on impressionistic observations, that compounds only contain a single stressed syllable. This claim about Greek is in contrast with the pattern observed in many other languages, including English, where compounds consist of multiple Phonological Words each of which retains its own word stress. Data from 6 native speakers producing 10 adjective-noun phrases and corresponding novel compounds are examined. The analysis focuses on F0 properties given that a recent study of prominence patterns in Greek has demonstrated that F0 is the main property of stress; however, data on duration, intensity and vowel centralization, the other properties commonly associated with stress are also presented. The results provide systematic confirmation of the impressionistic claims about Greek compounds having only a single stress in that the acoustic properties of the stressed vowel of the first word of compounds found to be reduced compared to the corresponding word of phrases. The second word in both constructions was similar in all measurements.

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Section: Compound Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Compounds in Modern Greek

Athanasopoulou¹,

Vogel²

2015

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

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“…These languages contradict the claim that linking morpheme exists only in recursive compounds, as Mukai (2008) 'lime-pulp-making' (Bisetto, 2010) What is interesting and different from compounding in Germanic languages is that there is a linking morpheme after each constituent, whilst in Germanic languages, there is a linking morpheme after embedded compounds, not each constituent. Also, where the noun-noun pattern is productive and the two constituents host a linking vowel between them, addition of new constituents is not allowed on the head side but only on the non-head one (Ralli 2013). According to Agathopoulou (personal communication), for Greek native speakers, multistemmed compounds like the above in which the two initial constituents are in a hierarchical relation are relatively rare in the language.…”

Section: Iteration With a Linking Morphemementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Summarizing the definitions by a number of linguists, such as Chomsky (1965), Ralli (2013), Bisetto (2010), Corballis (2011), and many others, recursion can be defined as follows: it is a phenomenon of embedding structures within structures in cyclic fashion to create sentences, as complex and long as we like. Here, complex means embedding of phrases within phrases of the same kind.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recursive Compounds and Linking Morpheme

Mukai

2013

IJEL

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This paper shows that the existence of a linking morpheme is not related to recursion of compounds in the given language, but a linking morpheme does play a role in some ways or the other of recursion. Recursion of compounding is defined as embedding at the edge or in the center of an action or object of an instance of the same type. On the other hand, iteration, is simply unembedded repetition of an action or object (Bisetto 2010). Based on these definitions, it is argued that there are languages with a linking morpheme overtly realized in recursive languages. Second, there are also languages which have genitive compounds with a linking morpheme, although recursive compounds do not have a linking morpheme. On the other hand, there are languages with a genitive compounds and recursive compounds of coordinate VNN or nominal coordinate compounds. In these languages, recursive compounds are not so productive. Finally, Turkish and Greek show that the existence of a linking morpheme is not related to recursion of compounds. They have a linking morpheme in iterated compounds, but not in recursive compounds.

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“…For instance, in (certain types of) compounds, underlying stress of both roots is removed, and replaced by stress on the antepenultimate syllable Ralli, 1994, 1996;Ralli, 1997;Revithiadou, 1997;Nikolou, 2005): (6) a. kuzinomáxero 'kitchen knife' (from kuzína 'kitchen' and maxéri 'knife') b. lemonó +asos 'lemon tree forest' (from lemó ni 'lemon tree' and +ásos 'forest')…”

Section: The Phonology Of Nominal Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stress as a proclitic in Modern Greek

Oostendorp

2012

Lingua

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Virtually all past tense forms of the Greek verb are characterised by antepenultimate stress. This fact is problematic for standard views of the prosody--morphology interface in Greek, for which it is usually assumed that inflectional categories cannot uniquely determine the stress pattern of a word. Furthermore, antepenultimate stress is not otherwise known as an effect of affixal morphology. It is proposed that we can understand the behaviour of past tense if we assume that past tense is a proclitic consisting of a segmentally empty foot only. It is shown how this analysis fits in with our current morphosyntactic and phonological knowledge of the structure of the Greek verb.

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Compounding in Modern Greek

Cited by 114 publications

References 96 publications

Compounds in Modern Greek

Compounds in Modern Greek

Recursive Compounds and Linking Morpheme

Stress as a proclitic in Modern Greek

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