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Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Volume 1 Versita Discipline: Language, Literature Edited by: Nikolaos Lavidas Thomaï Alexiou Areti-Maria Sougari Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Volume 1 Versita Discipline: Language, Literature Managing Editor: Anna Borowska Language Editor: Edgar Joycey Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 20th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (April 1-3, 2011) / Edited by: Nikolaos Lavidas, Thomaï Alexiou & Areti-Maria Sougari. Published by Versita, Versita Ltd, 78 York Street, London W1H 1DP, Great Britain. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 license, which means that the text may be used for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Copyright © 2013 Selection and editorial matter: Nikolaos Lavidas, ThomaÏ Alexiou, Areti-Maria Sougari; individual contributors, their contributions. ISBN (paperback): 978-83-7656-074-8 ISBN (hardcover): 978-83-7656-075-5 ISBN (for electronic copy): 978-83-7656-076-2 Managing Editor: Anna Borowska Language Editor: Edgar Joycey www.versita.com Cover illustration: © Istockphoto.com/skvoor Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics contains 80 papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics by prominent and young researchers, representing a large variety of topics, dealing with virtually all domains and frameworks of modern Linguistics. These papers were originally presented at the 20th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in April 2011. The first volume is organized into two parts: Invited Papers; Selected Conference Papers: Phonology - Phonetics, Syntax - Morphology - Semantics. Contents Foreword ...............................................................................................................9 Reviewers .......................................................................................................... 15 Part I Invited Papers Joseph Emonds Q: Natural Language’s only Functional Head ....................................................................19 Geoffrey Leech Growth and Decline: How Grammar has Been Changing in Recent English .....47 Sophia Marmaridou Towards a Constructional Account of Indefinite Uses of Proper Names in Modern Greek ..............................................................................................................................67 Amalia Moser Aspect and Aktionsart: A Study on the Nature of Grammatical Categories .......99 Nicos C. Sifakis Asking the Right Questions in “New School” EFL Curriculum Design ...............121 Part II Selected Conference Papers Section 1: Phonology - Phonetics Evia Kainada and Angelos Lengeris The Acquisition of English Intonation by Native Greek Speakers .......................141 Katerina Nicolaidis and Mary Baltazani The Greek Rhotic in /rC/ Sequences: An Acoustic and Electropalatographic Study ...................................................................................................................................................157 Nina Topintzi and Mary Baltazani Where the Glide Meets the Palatals ...................................................................................177 Eleni Tsiartsioni The Production of English Aspirated Stops in Foreign Language Acquisition .......................................................................................................................................197 Section 2: Syntax - Morphology - Semantics Rusudan Asatiani The Proto-Kartvelian and Proto-Indo-European Common Typological Feature: An Active Alignment (?) .............................................................................................................215 Ifigeneia Athanasiadou and Martha Lampropoulou A Conceptual Metonymy Account of Count and Non-Count Nouns: A Study of Modern Greek Nouns from the Domains of Eating and Drinking ........................233 Maria Chondrogianni Basic Illocutions of the Modern Greek Subjunctive ...................................................249 Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou Pride Concepts ...............................................................................................................................273 Konstantinos Kakarikos Case Attraction in Free Relative Clauses of Ancient Greek: A Study of the Syntax–Morphology Interface ................................................................................................289 Φρύνη Κακογιάννη Ντοά Τα διαθεσιακά επιρρήματα: Επιμέρους υποκατηγορία προτασιακών επιρρημάτων της Νέας Ελληνικής .............................................................................................. 305 Haritini Kallergi The Role of Repetition in the Rise of Concessivity .....................................................319 Γεωργία Κατσούδα Τα ρήματα σε -άμαι της Νεοελληνικής Κοινής.................................................... 335 Axiotis Kechagias The Syntax-IS Interface: On the Functional Discrepancies between Clitic Left Dislocation and ‘Bare Left Dislocation’ in Modern Greek ........................................353 Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga Distributivity and Genericity in Greek: The Case of kathe with the Definite Article .................................................................................................................................................369 Elisabeth Mela-Athanasopoulou Adjectival Participles Bearing on Unaccusativity Identification. Evidence from Modern Greek .................................................................................................................................385 Masaki Ohno Stranded Quantifiers, Reconstruction and QR ...............................................................393 Isabel Oltra-Massuet and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez On Scalar Predicative PPs in Spanish ................................................................................401 Theofanis Papoutsis Measuring the Productivity of Noun-Deriving Suffixes across Languages: Greek -tita vs. English -ness ...................................................................................................421 Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers Result Clauses in Modern Greek and Spanish: A Contrastive Study ..................439 Juan Romeu A vs. en in Spanish Locatives ..................................................................................................459 Anna Roussou, Christos Vlachos and Dimitris Papazachariou In Situ, Ex Situ and (Non) Echo Questions........................................................................475 Marietta Sionti, Leonardo Claudino, Yiannis Aloimonos, Carolyn P. Rose and Stella Markantonatou Semantic Clusters Combined with Kinematics: The Case of English and Modern Greek Motion Verbs .....................................................................................................................495 Ekaterina Tarpomanova Dativus Ethicus in the Balkan Languages ........................................................................511 Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 8 Foreword The present edited book is based on papers presented at the 20th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics that took place in Thessaloniki, April 1-3, 2011. From the time we started organizing the Symposium, setting the date and location of the event, until the moment we had the book ready in hands we felt we were involved in a ‘marathon’…of Linguistics. All subfields, all schools, and all frameworks were present at the Symposium. We were honored to receive many high quality submissions (abstracts and articles). More than 150 scholars from 20 countries presented their work and exchanged thoughts, concerns and insights. This book consists of 80 papers organized in three volumes, two parts and seven sections. Part I includes papers presented by plenary speakers, Part II includes selected papers presented at the Symposium. All of the articles focus on contrastive linguistic questions that mainly concern Greek and English by aiming, in parallel, to show a large part of the linguistic research that has been accomplished in Greece. Papers written in Greek continue the long tradition of earlier volumes that were based upon and derived from conferences on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics organized by the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. They present the significant work conducted in Greece and strengthen the contrastive linguistic studies that are available. The invited papers (Part I of volume 1) present the major dimensions of the linguistic study of today. Hence, the main questions that concern modern research, but that can also be considered classical questions, are represented in the first part of the book. These questions pertain to the status of the functional (modifier) categories as being independent of lexical categories and as stemming from the natural language ability to count and/or quantify (Joseph Emonds); the significance of comparable (sub)corpora to observe changes in progress in written English and to compare the rates of change from one genre to another and across regional varieties (Geoffrey Leech); the issue of proper nouns in Modern Greek, which as heads of nominal constructions unify with Foreword 9 Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics determiners and adjectives in the same way that common nouns do, and, on the other hand, activate semantic frames associated with particular categories of entities (Sophia Marmaridou); the
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