Valence Alternations in Modern Greek: an MRS analysis

In other words, the valence alternations in Modern Greek we focus on in this paper are the ones involving direct internal arguments (i.e., objects) and indirect prepositional complements. Such alternation patterns in Modern Greek characterize mainly the behaviour of verbal predicates which participate in the so-called Locative Alternation phenomena. The rest of the paper is structured as follows. In the next section (Section (7.2)) we will give a thorough overview of the behaviour of the relevant classes of verbs in Modern Greek: the so-called spray/load verbs, removal verbs, and the impingement verbs. In Section (7.3) we will present brie¤y previous analyses of valence alternations and we will show why such analyses fail to account for the Modern Greek data that we are interested in. Finally, in the last section (Section (7.4)) we will give a brief overview of Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS; Copestake et al. (1999)), which the analysis of valence alternations in Modern Greek that we are presenting in the same section is based on.