Prosodic filters on syntax: an interface account of second position clitics

Revithiadou, Anthi

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2004.08.017

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“…I propose that this distributional dichotomy can receive a natural explanation only under a hypothesis that exploits the syntax-phonology interface in full. Extending previous work by Bošković (1995Bošković ( , 2001 and Franks (1998Franks ( , 2000, Revithiadou (2006) shows that in 2P dialects such as Cappadocian and Cypriot Greek a language-specific hierarchy of prosodic constraints applies not only to assign prosodic structure to input host plus clitic strings but also to select the copy of the clitic that will be pronounced. Here I take this claim one step further and argue that phonology has a significant effect on the evolution of cliticisation in Greek and, more specifically, on the transition from a 2P to a non-2P system.…”

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A cross-dialectal study of cliticisation in Greek

Revithiadou

2008

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A cross-dialectal study of cliticisation in Greek

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2008

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“…As is well-known, the generalization is that in Standard Greek proclisis (clitic placement in the immediately preverbal position) depends on the finiteness of the verb form, hence gerunds and imperatives trigger enclisis; Cypriot Greek displays clitic-second/ Wackernagel or, alternatively, Tobler-Mussafia effects (Horrocks, 1990;Terzi, 1999;Agouraki, 2001;Condoravdi and Kiparsky, 2002;Pappas, 2004Pappas, , 2014Revithiadou, 2006Revithiadou, , 2008Tsiplakou, 2006;Chatzikyriakidis, 2010Chatzikyriakidis, , 2012Mavrogiorgos, 2010Mavrogiorgos, , 2013Grohmann, 2011;Neokleous, 2015;Grohmann et al, 2017 among others). As with the other variants, while the Cypriot structure, enclisis, was the preferred option, the standard-like strategy of proclisis without a triggering element in C or below, i.e., exceptional clitic placement, was certainly present in that extensive sample of Cypriot Greek oral production.…”

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Imperfect Acquisition of a Related Variety? Residual Clefting and What It Reveals about (Gradient) Bilectalism

Tsiplakou

2017

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This article explores the concept of gradient bilectalism by capitalizing on insights from recent developments in second language acquisition, particularly the suggestion that aspects of the syntax-discourse interface that are not easily accessible to the learner may lead to fossilization, even at end state. I explore the implications of this suggestion for bilectal grammars by examining the ways in which speakers of Cypriot Greek do syntactic focusing in Standard Greek. The phenomenon is structurally different in the two varieties of Greek examined: clefting is the Cypriot syntactic focusing strategy par excellence while in Standard Greek the relevant strategy is movement of the focused item to an immediately preverbal position. Interestingly, this focusing strategy is largely unattested in the acrolectal or standard-like production of bilectal Greek Cypriot speakers; on the contrary, the preferred strategy for syntactic focusing appears to be clefting, as is indicated by data from spontaneous speech. Quantitative data from a questionnaire survey presented in this article confirm that such "residual clefting" persists even at end state, which in turn suggests imperfect acquisition of the relevant structural aspect of Standard Greek, the second variety of these otherwise bilectal speakers. The data invite an approach couched within the Interface Hypothesis, and the argument is put forward that, being a structure at the interface between syntax and other modules or cognitive domains (semantics, pragmatics, and discourse), focusing in the target variety is vulnerable as regards acquisition.

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“…Some phenomena in this variety cannot be generalized across dialects, since it is known that some dialects differ in crucial respects from Standard Modern Greek. For instance, the use of pronominal clitics has different properties in the Eastern dialects (see Revithiadou 2006 on Cypriot Greek and Asia Minor dialects; see Sitaridou and Kaltsa 2014 on Pontic Greek), tonal phenomena in Cypriot Greek show crucial differences from Athenian Modern Greek (Arvaniti 1998;Themistocleous 2011), and Pontic Greek displays a focus particle and a particle accompanying contrastive topics (Sitaridou and Kaltsa 2014).…”

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Information Structure in Modern Greek

Skopeteas¹

2016

The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure

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This chapter deals with the prosodic and syntactic reflexes of information structure in Modern Greek. The relevant properties of this language are: (a) word order flexibility reflecting the information structural domains; (b) flexibility in the placement of the nuclear stress depending on the focus domain; and (c) clitic doubling of DP arguments that have topic or background status. This chapter outlines these classes of phenomena as well as their interaction for the expression of information structural notions. Keywordsword order, left periphery, clitic doubling, nuclear stress, focus, topic Chapter 34. Information structure in Modern Greek Stavros Skopeteas Preliminaries 1The aim of the present chapter is to outline the available knowledge about the reflexes of information structure on Modern Greek syntax and phonology and to attempt a synthesis of the ways in which the syntactic and prosodic levels interact. The goal of this synthesis is to evaluate the observed correlations between discourse-related concepts such as topic and focus and properties of expressions such as word order and prosodic events. The background question is whether the generalizations obtained from the individual levels can be deduced from principles of greater generality if we take into account their mutual dependencies in a stratified view of linguistic structure.Information structure is reflected in several layers of Modern Greek grammar. Word order is influenced by context; in particular, the left periphery of the clause displays syntactic configurations that correlate with topic and focus. At the level of prosodic phonology, the placement and the shape of the nuclear accent are determined by the focus domain: studies on Modern Greek phonology make a distinction between contrastive and non-contrastive nuclear accent. A particular property of Modern Greek is that non-nominative arguments are copied by a co-referent pronoun under conditions that generally relate to topicalization.The present outline restricts its scope to the basic syntactic and prosodic phenomena at the clause level. There are a number of further issues in Modern Greek grammar that involve the role of information structure but are beyond the scope of this chapter: for instance, the use of multiple definite determiners in determiner phrases, which is relevant for the question of Greek also has a set of focus-sensitive particles (i.e. the exclusive particle móno 'only', the additive particle ke 'and/also', and the scalar particle akóma ke 'even'); a particular property of these items in Greek is their sensitivity to polarity (see Giannakidou The apparent generalization of this data is given in (6) and this view is reflected in several accounts on Greek information structure. The relation between clitics and information structure is not 1:1 (as indicated by the correlation symbol). However, these correlations are a relevant starting point for understanding the role of left peripheral configurations in discourse.(6) a. focused XP ~ no clitic b. non-focused XP ~ c...

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Prosodic filters on syntax: an interface account of second position clitics

Cited by 24 publications

References 46 publications

A cross-dialectal study of cliticisation in Greek

A cross-dialectal study of cliticisation in Greek

Imperfect Acquisition of a Related Variety? Residual Clefting and What It Reveals about (Gradient) Bilectalism

Information Structure in Modern Greek

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