Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1163/15699846-01502007
Christopher Brown
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1163/15699846-01501009
A. Katsika, Darya Kavitskaya
Several accounts of the typologically unusual compensatory lengthening through the loss of the onset r in Samothraki Greek exist in the literature. However, none of these accounts take into consideration the precise phonetic detail of r-deletion and vowel lengthening in the language. This paper addresses this shortcoming by providing a phonetic analysis of Samothraki Greek compensatory lengthening through r-deletion. Our data show that vowels resulting from r-deletion are categorically longer than vowels not involving r-deletion. Moreover, there is no trace of r in the formant structure of vowels from compensatory lengthening. Finally, in contexts that do not allow for r-deletion, the majority of r productions are taps, most of which are accompanied by a vocoid. A new account of r-deletion in Samothraki Greek is proposed that takes into consideration the articulatory makeup of the r. The implications of this proposal for existing phonological accounts are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1163/15699846-01502004
N. Topintzi, Stefano Versace
Dekapentasyllavo ( DPS ), the dominant poetic meter in the Modern Greek poetic tradition since several centuries, has barely received any attention by modern linguistic theories. Basing our discussion on the analysis of several dimotika tragoudia (folk songs), we seek to understand the structure underlying the meter. Our investigation reveals which patterns are frequently attested, which are less frequent and those which are (virtually) inexistent. DPS verifies the oft-cited L - R asymmetry in verselines (cf. Ryan 2013), which renders L -edges looser than the stricter R -edges. It also tolerates stress lapses much more than stress clashes. Our ensuing account captures this distribution by referring to, primarily, the relation of phonological phrasing to counting of metrical positions and, secondarily, to rhythm. These components are then integrated within a formal analysis along the lines of the Bracketed Grid Theory (Fabb & Halle 2008). We conclude by outlining how DPS poses a challenge for theories of poetic meter and by contemplating its contribution to the field.
作为几个世纪以来现代希腊诗歌传统中占主导地位的诗歌格律,DPS几乎没有受到现代语言学理论的关注。通过对几首民歌的分析,我们试图理解其音律背后的结构。我们的调查揭示了哪些模式经常被证实,哪些不那么频繁,哪些(实际上)不存在。DPS验证了常被引用的横向线中的L - R不对称(cf. Ryan 2013),这使得L边比严格的R边更松散。与压力冲突相比,它更能容忍压力失效。我们接下来的叙述主要是通过参考音韵短语与韵律位置计数的关系,其次是与节奏的关系来捕捉这种分布。然后沿着括号网格理论(Fabb & Halle 2008)的路线将这些组件整合到正式分析中。最后,我们概述了DPS如何对诗歌韵律理论提出挑战,并考虑了它对该领域的贡献。
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1163/15699846-01501007
G. Giannakis
{"title":"Book Review: The Greek Verb. Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting on Greek Linguistics. Agrigento, October 1–3, 2009, edited by Annamaria Bartolotta","authors":"G. Giannakis","doi":"10.1163/15699846-01501007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01501007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"15 1","pages":"171-178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15699846-01501007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65156999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Griko Dialect of Salento: Balkan Features and Linguistic Contact (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2013)","authors":"V. Baldissera","doi":"10.1163/15699846-01502005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01502005","url":null,"abstract":"In this contribution, I offer a summary of my 2013 Ph.D. dissertation from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on Griko dialect.","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"15 1","pages":"271-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15699846-01502005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65157516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1163/15699846-01501001
J. Stolk
Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the patient of the predicate. When the event expressed by the predicate is patient-affecting, the possessor is indirectly also affected. Hence the semantic role of this affected alienable possessor might be interpreted as a benefactive or malefactive in genitive possession constructions. By semantic extension the meaning of the genitive case in this position is extended into goal-oriented roles, such as addressee and recipient, which are commonly denoted by the dative case in Ancient Greek. The semantic similarity of the genitive and dative cases in these constructions might have provided the basis for the merger of the cases in the Greek language.
{"title":"Dative by Genitive Replacement in the Greek Language of the Papyri: A Diachronic Account of Case Semantics","authors":"J. Stolk","doi":"10.1163/15699846-01501001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01501001","url":null,"abstract":"Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the patient of the predicate. When the event expressed by the predicate is patient-affecting, the possessor is indirectly also affected. Hence the semantic role of this affected alienable possessor might be interpreted as a benefactive or malefactive in genitive possession constructions. By semantic extension the meaning of the genitive case in this position is extended into goal-oriented roles, such as addressee and recipient, which are commonly denoted by the dative case in Ancient Greek. The semantic similarity of the genitive and dative cases in these constructions might have provided the basis for the merger of the cases in the Greek language.","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"15 1","pages":"91-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15699846-01501001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65156584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1163/15699846-01501002
U. Stephany, M. Voeikova
Requests are among the three basic human communicative motives which emerge earliest in ontogeny. The imperative constitutes the prototypical linguistic verb form category for expressing direct requests. In both Modern Greek and Russian, this category is differentiated from other verb forms and most verbs distinguish between perfective and imperfective imperative forms. In the present paper, the perfective and imperfective imperative verb forms occurring in the early speech of a Greek and a Russian child and their mothers’ child-directed speech are studied with regard to their frequencies and functions. It will be shown that the perfective/imperfective contrast of imperative forms does not function alike in the two languages. The differences of imperative usage between the two mother-child dyads and the similarities within each of them may be taken as evidence that the children construct the grammatical distinctions of their language on the basis of usage.
{"title":"Requests, Their Meanings and Aspectual Forms in Early Greek and Russian Child Language","authors":"U. Stephany, M. Voeikova","doi":"10.1163/15699846-01501002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01501002","url":null,"abstract":"Requests are among the three basic human communicative motives which emerge earliest in ontogeny. The imperative constitutes the prototypical linguistic verb form category for expressing direct requests. In both Modern Greek and Russian, this category is differentiated from other verb forms and most verbs distinguish between perfective and imperfective imperative forms. In the present paper, the perfective and imperfective imperative verb forms occurring in the early speech of a Greek and a Russian child and their mothers’ child-directed speech are studied with regard to their frequencies and functions. It will be shown that the perfective/imperfective contrast of imperative forms does not function alike in the two languages. The differences of imperative usage between the two mother-child dyads and the similarities within each of them may be taken as evidence that the children construct the grammatical distinctions of their language on the basis of usage.","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"15 1","pages":"66-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15699846-01501002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65156703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1163/15699846-01501008
Dionysios Mertyris
This summary presents the main findings of my 2014 Ph.D. dissertation (La Trobe University) on the diachrony of the genitive case and its dialectal evolution in Greek.
{"title":"The Loss of the Genitive in Greek: A Diachronic and Dialectological Analysis (La Trobe University, 2014)","authors":"Dionysios Mertyris","doi":"10.1163/15699846-01501008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01501008","url":null,"abstract":"This summary presents the main findings of my 2014 Ph.D. dissertation (La Trobe University) on the diachrony of the genitive case and its dialectal evolution in Greek.","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"15 1","pages":"159-169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15699846-01501008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65157067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.1163/15699846-01402007
B. Joseph
{"title":"Colvin, Stephen, 2014. A Brief History of Ancient Greek. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.","authors":"B. Joseph","doi":"10.1163/15699846-01402007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01402007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"14 1","pages":"273-276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15699846-01402007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65156371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.1163/15699846-01401006
V. Leppänen
{"title":"Geoffrey Horrocks,Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers (2nd edn.). Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, 2010. Pp. xx + 505.","authors":"V. Leppänen","doi":"10.1163/15699846-01401006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01401006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"14 1","pages":"127-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15699846-01401006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65156253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}