High and Low Arguments in Northern and Pontic Greek

This paper deals with the distribution of use accusative as an indirect object in two major dialect groups Modern Greek, namely Northern Greek and Pontic Greek. The loss dative Medieval (c. 10th c. AD) resulted genitive southern varieties Asia Minor As Standard employs genitive, little attention has been paid to accusative, our study was aimed fill that gap by presenting data collected Greece from speakers both groups. According findings, is exclusively used all syntactic domains inherited Ancient groups, but are kept apart terms obligatoriness vs. optionality or lack clitic doubling availability “high” positions, e.g., for external possessors ethical constructions.