High and Low Arguments in Northern and Pontic Greek

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5901033
AutoresElena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete, autor de correspondencia), Dionysios Mertyris (0000-0001-9431-6361, Independent Researcher, Aigyptou 72, 16562 Athens, Greece), Christina Sevdali (0000-0002-2271-4640, University of Ulster)
Año2022
Volumen7
Número3
Páginas238
Fecha de publicación2022-09-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages7030238
OpenAlexW4296588517
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas23

This paper deals with the distribution of the use of the accusative as an indirect object in two major dialect groups of Modern Greek, namely Northern Greek and Pontic Greek. The loss of the dative in Medieval Greek (c. 10th c. AD) resulted in the use of the genitive as an indirect object in the southern varieties and of the accusative in Northern Greek and Asia Minor Greek. As Standard Modern Greek employs the genitive, little attention has been paid to the distribution of the accusative, and our study was aimed to fill that gap by presenting data collected in Northern Greece from speakers of both dialect groups. According to our findings, the accusative is exclusively used in all syntactic domains inherited from the Ancient Greek dative in both dialect groups, but the two groups are kept apart in terms of the obligatoriness vs. optionality or lack of clitic doubling and availability vs. lack of "high" positions, e.g., for external possessors and ethical dative constructions

Ancient Greek · Clitic · Dative case · Genitive case · Geography · Linguistics · Modern Greek · Object (grammar · Classics · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation