On the complex relationship between deverbal compounds and argument supporting nominals

A Alexiadou - Aspect and valency in nominals, 2017 - degruyter.com
The relationship between deverbal compounds (DCs) and argument supporting nominals
(ASNs) has been controversially discussed in the literature. See eg Ackema and Neeleman …

Morphosyntactic sources for nominal synthetic compounds in English and Greek

G Iordăchioaia, A Alexiadou… - … für Wortbildung/Journal …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract We analyze English and Greek nominal synthetic compounds like truck driver and
truck driving from a syntactic perspective couched within Distributed Morphology. We derive …

Zero suffixes in Modern Greek derived adjectival formations with alpha privative

Ν Koutsoukos, A Ralli - Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2023 - degruyter.com
In this paper, we examine Modern Greek adjectives with the negative prefix α-[a](also called
alpha privative) which are derived from nouns. These formations display formal and …

Proper name compounds: a comparative perspective

A Alexiadou - English Language & Linguistics, 2019 - cambridge.org
The article discusses compound formation involving proper names from a comparative
perspective. While proper names can appear within compounds in English, this is not …

On the morphosyntax of synthetic compounds with proper names: A case study on the diachrony of Greek

A Alexiadou - Word Structure, 2020 - euppublishing.com
This paper discusses the formation of synthetic compounds with proper names. While these
are possible in English, Greek disallows such formations. However, earlier stages of the …

Derivational morphology in Modern Greek: The State of the Art

N Koutsoukos, A Efthymiou - Journal of Greek Linguistics, 2023 - brill.com
Derivational morphology is an umbrella term used for concatenative and non-concatenative
processes for the formation of new lexemes. In Modern Greek, derivational morphology is …

Selecting roots: the view from compounding

D Michelioudakis, N Angelopoulos - The Linguistic Review, 2019 - degruyter.com
We investigate how saturation of different theta-roles by the non-head constituent correlates
with derivational suffixes and, in turn, with the event structures compatible with those …

[PDF][PDF] Deriving Nominals in Greek: four types of Deverbal Nominals

R POUTACHIDOU, A REVITHIADOU… - ikee.lib.auth.gr
The topic of the current thesis is nominalization, which, in the generative literature, has so far
been investigated via early syntactic, transformationalist accounts (Lee, 1960), early …

Preposition-drop in Greek: EPP-driven pseudo-incorporation

E Sifaki - Linguistics, 2020 - degruyter.com
The paper investigates preposition (and determiner) drop in Greek. A close look at the
properties of preposition-drop reveals that despite the lack of a definite determiner, the place …

[PDF][PDF] PP LICENSING AND COMPOUNDING: EVIDENCE FOR PREPOSITIONS AS PROBES

This paper investigates non-core arguments commonly realised as PPs and establishes a
generalisation concerning their ability to show up as non-head constituents of synthetic …