Syntactic variation across Greek dialects

Guardiano, Cristina; Michelioudakis, Dimitris

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“…The order to kalo to pedi (14) has been described as a consequence of a fronting movement of the complex [art+AP] to the left of D-either to SpecDP or to the specifier of a dedicated projection above DP (Horrocks & Stavrou 1987, Stavrou & Horrocks 1989, Campos & Stavrou 2004, Guardiano & Stavrou 2014, Guardiano & Michelioudakis 2019. This movement is triggered by the feature [+contrast] (or [+focus], or both) with which the articulated adjective is endowed.…”

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Adjective-Noun combinations in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy

Guardiano

Stavrou²

2019

J. Greek Linguist.

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This paper investigates aspects of adjectival modification in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy. In Italiot Greek, prenominal adjectives obey restrictions that do not exist in Standard Modern Greek, where all types of adjectives are allowed in prenominal position. As far as postnominal adjectives are concerned, in the textual tradition of Calabria Greek there is evidence of postnominal adjectives systematically articulated in definite nominal structures (henceforth DP s), in a structure similar to the so-called polydefinite construction that is typical of Standard Modern Greek (and of Greek in general since ancient times). Some residual evidence of such a construction is also found in Salento. Yet, in the varieties currently spoken in the two areas, postnominal adjectives are never articulated. The paper explores these patterns, with particular attention to the mechanisms potentially responsible for the loss of polydefiniteness.

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“…Here we do not want to get into such details, which do not affect the main point of analysis. For an analysis of the position of demonstratives in the nominal phrase in Greek and their relation to PredP see also Guardiano & Michelioudakis (2019).…”

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Adjective-Noun combinations in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy

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Stavrou²

2019

J. Greek Linguist.

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“…In Greek, the [Art A] cluster can be fronted DP-initially (usually generating informationally marked DPs), thus giving rise to [Art A Art N] sequences; similarly, Dem can be fronted from the postnominal position, generating [Dem Art N] sequences, which are often associated to deictic interpretation (Manolessou and Panagiotidis 1999). Additionally, in some non-standard Greek dialects, it is often the case that, under certain phonological conditions (Guardiano and Michelioudakis 2019), the (fronted) demonstrative and the definite article are fused into a single item. In Italiot Greek, this process was generalized, to the point that the demonstrative and the article, when fused, were no more perceived as two separate elements, and [Dem-art N] sequences were reanalysed as [Dem N].…”

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“…Stavrou (2012Stavrou ( , 2013, Guardiano and Stavrou (2014, 2019a, 2019b. Horrocks and Stavrou (1987); Stavrou and Horrocks (1989); Guardiano (2012Guardiano ( , 2014b; Guardiano and Michelioudakis (2019); . Guardiano (2011); Guardiano and Longobardi (2018); ; .…”

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Modeling Syntactic Change under Contact: The Case of Italiot Greek

Guardiano

Stavrou

2021

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In this paper, we investigate patterns of persistence and change affecting the syntax of nominal structures in Italiot Greek in comparison to Modern (and Ancient) Greek, and we explore the role of Southern Italo-Romance as a potential source of interference. Our aim is to highlight the dynamics that favor syntactic contact in this domain: we provide an overview of the social context where these dynamics have taken place and of the linguistic structures involved.

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“…With the exception of explorations of the DP-internal syntax of indexical elements (see, among others, Guardiano and Stavrou 2021;Guardiano and Michelioudakis 2019), the behaviour of indexicality itself in contact, that is: how many deictic contrasts are attested within a given demonstrative system and whether these undergo a change in contact, has not been the object of systematic investigation to date. Nonetheless, the general understanding is that the encoding of indexicality in various contact settings is remarkably stable (see, a.o., Heine and Kuteva 2005;Friedman 2006;Matras 2009;Polinsky 2018), supporting the latter view.…”

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Demonstrative Systems Are Not Affected by Contact: Evidence from Heritage Southern Italo-Romance

Terenghi

2022

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Deictic information is present in every language; yet, there are significant differences as to how exactly such information is encoded, yielding different indexical systems across languages. The availability of cross-linguistic variation in indexical systems provides a window into the role of contact in shaping grammars: this work contributes to the discussion by investigating whether contact plays any role in determining the grammar of indexicality in heritage varieties. This study has a two-fold aim. Empirically, it investigates ternary demonstrative systems in heritage southern Italo-Romance varieties: on the basis of comprehension and production data, these systems are shown to be in the process of undergoing change. Theoretically, it underscores the insights that the combined microcontact and diachronic perspective provides for the understanding of variation and change in heritage languages: while, at face value, the elicited heritage data seem to indicate that demonstratives are affected by contact, pairwise comparisons across heritage varieties and diachronic observations lead to rejecting a plain contact-induced explanation and to conclude, instead, that deictic elements are largely unaffected by contact and that their change in heritage varieties is, rather, endogenous.

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Syntactic variation across Greek dialects

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Adjective-Noun combinations in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy

Adjective-Noun combinations in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy

Modeling Syntactic Change under Contact: The Case of Italiot Greek

Demonstrative Systems Are Not Affected by Contact: Evidence from Heritage Southern Italo-Romance

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