A Greek Proverb in Modern Irish

Word in Modern Greek

A Non-Bleeding Rule in Modern Greek*

Sakellariades 1985 (Glotta 63) proposes two synchronic phonological rules for northern Modern Greek dialects, Glide Formation (GF) and High Vowel Deletion (HVD), and suggests GF as "a characteristic case of a bleeding rule". Closer examination, however, shows that S's formulation of HVD is flawed, and that the rule's environment must refer to the need for consonants adjacent to the vowel. Evide...

Verbal Dvandvas in Modern Greek

While Greek is rich in compounds, one familiar type from Indo-European, namely dvandva compounds meaning 'X and Y', is essentially nonexistent in Ancient Greek. However, such compounds start occurring in post-Classical Greek and are fairly productive by early Modern Greek. The innovative dvandvas involve nouns, a type well attested elsewhere in Indo-European, but also verbs, such as aniγo-klino...

Aspectual composition in modern Greek

The rich aspectual system in Modern Greek involves both morphologically expressed grammatical aspect and eventuality types. Particular emphasis is paid to the interaction between grammatical aspect and eventuality types, since it is due to this interaction that the verbal predicate acquires distinct meanings. The main aim of this paper is to explain potential changes in the meaning of the event...

Modern Greek Corpus Taxonomy

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