Melita Stavrou

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | AUTH · Department of Linguistics

  The paper discusses the complex behavior of a subgroup of relational demominal adjectives, namely ethnic adjectives. These adjectives exhibit a hybrid nature, sharing properties of both nouns and adjectives. The paper proposes that these adjectives have a nominal source visible at the level of interpretation. This nominal ‘base’ explains basic as...

We identify different functions of cognate objects cross-linguistically, and analyse cognate object constructions as 'lexicalized' light verb constructions. In Greek etc. these involve no shift of aspectual character vis-à-vis the simple verb. But COCs in English etc. provide terminative equivalents to nonterminative unergatives (the relevant VPs d...

In this paper, we identify a paradigm of metalinguistic comparatives in Greek headed by the preposition para. Para clauses are lexically distinct from other comparatives clauses in Greek (headed by apo, apoti). Building on earlier intuitions, we propose a semantics of metalinguistic MORE as a contrast between two propositions in terms of how approp...

In many languages, including English, sentences with agentive manner-of-motion verbs (e.g. Bill swam (for hours)) may come to denote telic eventualities through the addition of PP complements marking goals or sometimes result-locations (e.g. Bill swam to the island (in five minutes), John ran in the house (at noon)). We show that the absence of suc...

The goal of this book is twofold. On the one hand we want to offer a discussion of some of the more important properties of the nominal projection, on the other hand we want to provide the reader with tools for syntactic analysis which apply to the structure of DP but which are also relevant for other domains of syntax. In order to achieve this dua...

The goal of this book is twofold. On the one hand we want to offer a discussion of some of the more important properties of the nominal projection, on the other hand we want to provide the reader with tools for syntactic analysis which apply to the structure of DP but which are also relevant for other domains of syntax.In order to achieve this dual...

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The recent growth of interest in the syntactic relationship between adjectives and nouns within DPs is due to the extended research in the structure of both the DP and the clause in terms of functional categories and their interaction. The history of this approach goes back to the ‘split’ of the NP in one functional (D) and one lexical (N) domain,...

I would like to express my gratitude to Geoffrey Horrocks, who read several drafts of the manuscript proposing improvements on both form and meaning. I am also indebted to lanthi Tsimpli, Dhimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou and two anonymous JL referees for their useful comments on what constitutes the basic claims of this article. Last, though not lea...

It is a standard assumption of government-binding theory that the relationship between a constituent displaced by the transformational rule schema Move α and its trace is subject to the locality condition known as subjacency, the central principle of the subtheory of universal grammar known as bounding theory (Chomsky, 1981, 1982, 1986). Subjacency...