Verbalternationen und Verbspaltung im Neugriechischen

Abstract

This paper deals with a group of five alternations for the Modern Greek verb in the syntactic frame NPi__NP for the active form and NP__ for the corresponding active or passive form. The alternations causative/auto, causative/reflexive, causative/reciprocal, causative/control, and passive participle are presented. It is shown how the interpretation of some of these alternations is influenced by the context. The second part deals with the splitting of the verbs kapnízo and potízo into homophonous lexical units and explains why the alternations component must be favoured in comparison to the conceptual structures and semantic fields component. The proposed model incorporates a version of Ray Jackendoff's conceptual structures.

Verb Derivation in Modern Greek: Alternation Classes, Conceptual Structures, Semantic Fields

“…In other words, the AC marks the content of the verb base additionally, i.e. the content of the base of kapnízo1 is not simply [smoke] but [smoke] + 1*a/b_*9 (→emission/endogenous product) and the content of the base of kapnízo2 is not simply [smoke], but [smoke] + 2a/b_8a/b_9 (→covering) etc., so that the precise determination of the verb base can be achieved co-operatively (see Charitonidis , 2006. To go back to Jackendoff 's example, the corresponding ACs for the verb unit in (2) must be similarly elaborated in order to test the validity of the associated lexical rules, and esp.…”