What are the properties of the polarity-sensitive particles in modern Greek?

Modern 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 2007 about ‘even’ and Giannakidou 2006 about ‘only’).

What is the condition that the double cannot be stressed in clitic doubling?

’The condition that the double cannot be stressed in clitic doubling has repercussions oninformation structure, i.e. it must be background information such that it can be deaccented; see (31).

What is the accent used in the Greek tobia?

The bitonal L+H* corresponds to an F0-peak that is preceded by a noticeable dip and aligns with the middle of the accented syllable; this accent is reported for narrow focus contexts (Arvaniti et al. 2006).

What is the common type of nuclear accent in declaratives?

The most frequent type of nuclear accent in declaratives involves a high target associated with the starred syllable (either H* or L+H*; see 34.3.2; see Baltazani 2002 for further options).

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Information Structure in Modern Greek

Stavros Skopeteas

- 28 Jul 2016

TL;DR: The most important currently spoken dialects are Cypriot Greek (in Cyprus), Pontic Greek (originally on the Black Sea coast of Turkey and Georgia), and Grico (in Southern Italy) as mentioned in this paper.

Abstract: Modern Greek is spoken by a population of 11 million speakers in Greece and Cyprus, as well as by smaller communities in further 35 countries. Standard Modern Greek is based on the southern varieties of Greek (spoken in Peloponnese and on the islands of the Ionian sea). The most important currently spoken dialects are Cypriot Greek (in Cyprus), Pontic Greek (originally on the Black Sea coast of Turkey and Georgia), and Grico (in Southern Italy). 2. Information Structure

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1. What are the contributions in this paper?

In this paper, the prosodic and syntactic reflexes of information structure in Modern Greek are discussed.

2. Why are unmarked inflectional categories not given in the glosses?

For the sake of simplicity, unmarked inflectional categories (singular, active, indicative, present) are not given in the glosses.

3. What is the frequent information structural configuration in texts?

Since the most frequent information structural configuration in texts is a topic-comment articulation (Du Bois 1987; Lambrecht 2000), the frequency of SVO in corpora trivially reflects the discourse preference for subjects to be topics (and is not evidence for basic word order).

4. What are the two issues that are particularly relevant for the study of information structure?

Two issues are particularly relevant for the study of information structure: (a) the delimitation of prosodic domains (see Section 34.3.1), and (b) the role of accentual contrasts (Section 34.3.2).34.3.1

Figure 34.1: Canonical configuration vs. clitic doubling

Figure 34.2: Prosodic structure and left-peripheral configurations clitic left dislocation fronting

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