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Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993 (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory ... IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
Themes in Greek Linguistics Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics Reading September 1993 - Amsterdam Studies in the Theory ... IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Author:Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis, Maria Sifianou This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this conference. The aim was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should provide the linguistic community with a work presenting ... more »the state-of-the-art in Greek linguistics, and covering a wide multidisciplinary spectrum of current research. The papers are organized into six sections. Section 1 contains the papers of the four invited speakers. George Babiniotis discusses the contribution of linguistic theory to the teaching of Greek, Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou and Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman each present an overview of the relevance of, respectively, syntactic and phonological theories to Greek, and Brian D. Joseph explores a specific theoretical issue, the pro-drop parameter. Section 2 brings together papers on syntax, semantics and pragmatics which examine theoretical and descriptive issues within current models such as "Principles and Paramaters", HPSG, "Relevance Theory" and others. Section 3 covers phonology and phonetics and also presents research on theoretical issues such as government phonology, the phonology-morphology interface, as well as descriptive issues including the instrumental investigation of selected phonetic phenomena. Section 3 covers discourse and style and deals with spoken and written discourse including miscommunication, metaphor and issues on politeness. Section 5 on variations and extensions consists of papers on Ancient and Modern Greek dialects such as Macedonian, Cypriot, and Pontic, as well as issues on social and geographical varieties, diglossia and language acquisition. Section 6 presents papers relating to the use of computers for the analysis, translation and teaching of Greek.« less