Augustus Ralli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1045680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Augustus Ralli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Augustus |
| FAMILY NAME | Ralli |
| SIGNATURE | RALLI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Patras |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3954-2160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Compounding in Modern Lesbian in Relation to Compounding in Standard Modern Greek
In this article, we deal with the word-formation process of compounding in the Modern Greek dialect of the Aegean island of Lesbos, the so-called “Modern Lesbian”, in comparison to relevant information regarding compounding in Standard Modern Greek. In this dialect, compounding is widespread and constitutes a fertile process of the vocabulary expansion, as in the Greek language in general. Numerous compounds are built, belonging to the three majo…
Left-Headedness in Compounds of a Right-Headed Language
This article deals with left-headedness in compounding in some dialectal varieties of Greek, a language which is predominantly right-headed. On the basis of data stored in DComp, a dialectal database of the University of Patras containing 17,019 entries, I claim that left-headedness has resulted from the interplay of endogenous and exogenous factors. Given that left-headed compounds appear in the varieties which have been under a long-lasting Rom…
Zero suffixes in Modern Greek derived adjectival formations with alpha privative
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 semantic properties that cannot be attributed to any overt element of the structure. Following a bottom-up approach, we revisit the question of whether zero morphemes are useful in the realm of derivational morphology. We argue for a zero derivational suffix that accoun…
Greek-Canadian Koiné: The Emergence of a Koiné among Greek-Canadian Immigrants
The present paper is a contribution to the study of a new Modern Greek variety that is spoken in Canada by first-generation immigrants who arrived in this country between 1945 and 1975. This variety displays features originating from: (a) A Common Modern Greek spoken in Greece around the middle of the 20th century, (b) mutually intelligible characteristics of the immigrants' native dialectal varieties, mainly from the Peloponnese, (c) contact wit…
Μorphological Integration of Loan Words in Kaliardá
This article deals with lexical borrowing and the morphological integration of loan words in Kaliardá, a Greek-based antilanguage, spoken in the urban areas of Greece by socially marginalized communities of cross-dressers, transgender people, and gay men. It is shown that the accommodation of most loans follows the general rules of Modern Greek morphology, namely, the stem-based word formation and compulsory inflection. However, for a considerabl…
Contrasting Romance and Turkish as Source Languages: Evidence from Borrowing Verbs in Modern Greek Dialects
In this paper, I deal with verb borrowing in a language-contact situation involving Greek as target and Romance and Turkish as source languages. More particularly, I discuss the reasons and techniques that make verbs of typologically and genetically different languages to be accommodated in a uniform way within the same linguistic system, and verbs of the same donor to be integrated in a different manner within the same recipient. I try to provid…
Revisiting the Borrowability Scale(s) of Free Grammatical Elements: Evidence from Modern Greek Contact induced Varieties
This article aims to test the general validity of borrowability scales by investigating contrastively two contact induced linguistic varieties of Greek. It tries to elucidate the factors that facilitate or inhibit the borrowability of free grammatical elements, which are usually considered as less amenable to transfer. It argues against the formulation of any borrowability scales of a generalized predictive power, even in cases where there is a c…
Matter versus pattern borrowing in compounding: Evidence from the Asia Minor Greek dialectal variety
In Memoriam: Gaberell Drachman (27 June 1925 – 10 September 2014)
Blend formation in Modern Greek
Greek
IE, Hellenic: Modern Greek
Compounding versus derivation
This chapter examines the demarcation of compounds and derivative items. It is argued that the two types of constructions belong to word-formation, and intermingle in such a way that only the same grammatical domain could handle them properly. This domain is considered to be morphology, and claims and proposals are exemplified with data drawn from Standard Modern Greek and its dialects.The following issues are tackled:a. The order of application …
Greek derivational structures: Restrictions and Constraints
Modern Greek V V dvandva compounds: A linguistic innovation in the history of the Indo-European languages
This paper deals with [V V] dvandva compounds, which are frequently used in East and Southeast Asian languages but also in Greek and its dialects: Greek is in this respect uncommon among Indo-European languages. It examines the appearance of this type of compounding in Greek by tracing its development in the late Medieval period, and detects a high rate of productivity in most Modern Greek dialects. It argues that the emergence of the [V V] dvand…
Morphology meets dialectology: Insights from Modern Greek dialects
Headedness in diminutive formation: Evidence from Modern Greek and its dialectal variation
The paper deals with the notion of headedness, as applied to dimutive suffixation. Following evidence from Modern Greek and its dialects, we propose that diminutive suffixes are heads of their constructions on the basis of certain criteria. First, the inflectional paradigms of a number of diminutive formations show irregularities and gaps that are not justified by the inflectional behavior of the base. Second, diminutive suffixes may change a sem…
Syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena in Modern Greek dialects: The state of the art
In this paper I give an overview of several syntactic and morpho-syntactic phenomena applying to a range of Modern Greek dialects. I present a descriptive account of these phenomena, and refer to some possible theoretical analyses put forward by a number of well-known linguists. In certain cases, I offer evidence for the cross-dialectal occurrence of a phenomenon as a contribution to the establishment of syntactic isoglosses, and report some hint…
Morphosyntactic features and paradigmatic uniformity in two dialectal varieties of the island of Lesvos
This paper discusses data from the nominal paradigms of two dialectal varieties of East Lesvos, those of Thermi and Pamfila. It is shown that there is abundant evidence for the key role of the paradigm in the phonological realization of the [noun-clitic] clusters. We argue that the grammars of these dialectal varieties must crucially include constraints that require identity between related surface forms in the [noun-clitic] paradigm. This propos…
The role of morphology in gender determination: Evidence from Modern Greek
This paper deals with gender and the role of morphology in determining the different gender values in a morphologically rich language like Greek. It provides a theoretical account of gender in generative grammar and argues in favor of an organization of grammar where an autonomous morphological module interacts, in several aspects, with syntax, a lexicon, and a feature theory that feeds the other modules. Most claims and proposals are exemplified…
Morphology–phonology interface: Phonological domains in Greek compounds
Les As. examinent un cas d'interaction morphologie-phonologie : l'accent dans la composition grecque. Ils montrent que deux types de mots composes peuvent etre distingues en ce qui concerne la procedure d'accentuation : a) les composes [radical + radical], soumis a l'application de la regle de l'accent antepenultieme, et b) les composes [radical + mot] et [mot + mot], gouvernes par la conservation de l'accent. En se basant sur cette analyse, ils …
A Computational Treatment of Stress in Greek Inflected Forms
This paper deals with the treatment of stress in Greek inflectional morphology. First, a morphological processor is presented which is built on the basis of a linguistic analysis of Greek inflected forms. This is followed by a discussion of how stress applies to words and how stress shift phenomena are taken into account by the morphological processor. In Greek, word stress distribution is important because it represents a major difficulty in eve…
The role of morphology in gender determination: Evidence from Modern Greek
This paper deals with gender and the role of morphology in determining the different gender values in a morphologically rich language like Greek. It provides a theoretical account of gender in generative grammar and argues in favor of an organization of grammar where an autonomous morphological module interacts, in several aspects, with syntax, a lexicon, and a feature theory that feeds the other modules. Most claims and proposals are exemplified…
Morphology meets dialectology: Insights from Modern Greek dialects
Matter versus pattern borrowing in compounding: Evidence from the Asia Minor Greek dialectal variety
Syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena in Modern Greek dialects: The state of the art
In this paper I give an overview of several syntactic and morpho-syntactic phenomena applying to a range of Modern Greek dialects. I present a descriptive account of these phenomena, and refer to some possible theoretical analyses put forward by a number of well-known linguists. In certain cases, I offer evidence for the cross-dialectal occurrence of a phenomenon as a contribution to the establishment of syntactic isoglosses, and report some hint…
Morphosyntactic features and paradigmatic uniformity in two dialectal varieties of the island of Lesvos
This paper discusses data from the nominal paradigms of two dialectal varieties of East Lesvos, those of Thermi and Pamfila. It is shown that there is abundant evidence for the key role of the paradigm in the phonological realization of the [noun-clitic] clusters. We argue that the grammars of these dialectal varieties must crucially include constraints that require identity between related surface forms in the [noun-clitic] paradigm. This propos…
Contrasting Romance and Turkish as Source Languages: Evidence from Borrowing Verbs in Modern Greek Dialects
In this paper, I deal with verb borrowing in a language-contact situation involving Greek as target and Romance and Turkish as source languages. More particularly, I discuss the reasons and techniques that make verbs of typologically and genetically different languages to be accommodated in a uniform way within the same linguistic system, and verbs of the same donor to be integrated in a different manner within the same recipient. I try to provid…
Μorphological Integration of Loan Words in Kaliardá
This article deals with lexical borrowing and the morphological integration of loan words in Kaliardá, a Greek-based antilanguage, spoken in the urban areas of Greece by socially marginalized communities of cross-dressers, transgender people, and gay men. It is shown that the accommodation of most loans follows the general rules of Modern Greek morphology, namely, the stem-based word formation and compulsory inflection. However, for a considerabl…
Greek derivational structures: Restrictions and Constraints
A Computational Treatment of Stress in Greek Inflected Forms
This paper deals with the treatment of stress in Greek inflectional morphology. First, a morphological processor is presented which is built on the basis of a linguistic analysis of Greek inflected forms. This is followed by a discussion of how stress applies to words and how stress shift phenomena are taken into account by the morphological processor. In Greek, word stress distribution is important because it represents a major difficulty in eve…
A Computational Treatment of Stress in Greek Inflected Forms
This paper deals with the treatment of stress in Greek inflectional morphology. First, a morphological processor is presented which is built on the basis of a linguistic analysis of Greek inflected forms. This is followed by a discussion of how stress applies to words and how stress shift phenomena are taken into account by the morphological processor. In Greek, word stress distribution is important because it represents a major difficulty in eve…
Morphology–phonology interface: Phonological domains in Greek compounds
Les As. examinent un cas d'interaction morphologie-phonologie : l'accent dans la composition grecque. Ils montrent que deux types de mots composes peuvent etre distingues en ce qui concerne la procedure d'accentuation : a) les composes [radical + radical], soumis a l'application de la regle de l'accent antepenultieme, et b) les composes [radical + mot] et [mot + mot], gouvernes par la conservation de l'accent. En se basant sur cette analyse, ils …
Morphosyntactic features and paradigmatic uniformity in two dialectal varieties of the island of Lesvos
This paper discusses data from the nominal paradigms of two dialectal varieties of East Lesvos, those of Thermi and Pamfila. It is shown that there is abundant evidence for the key role of the paradigm in the phonological realization of the [noun-clitic] clusters. We argue that the grammars of these dialectal varieties must crucially include constraints that require identity between related surface forms in the [noun-clitic] paradigm. This propos…
The role of morphology in gender determination: Evidence from Modern Greek
This paper deals with gender and the role of morphology in determining the different gender values in a morphologically rich language like Greek. It provides a theoretical account of gender in generative grammar and argues in favor of an organization of grammar where an autonomous morphological module interacts, in several aspects, with syntax, a lexicon, and a feature theory that feeds the other modules. Most claims and proposals are exemplified…
Syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena in Modern Greek dialects: The state of the art
In this paper I give an overview of several syntactic and morpho-syntactic phenomena applying to a range of Modern Greek dialects. I present a descriptive account of these phenomena, and refer to some possible theoretical analyses put forward by a number of well-known linguists. In certain cases, I offer evidence for the cross-dialectal occurrence of a phenomenon as a contribution to the establishment of syntactic isoglosses, and report some hint…
Headedness in diminutive formation: Evidence from Modern Greek and its dialectal variation
The paper deals with the notion of headedness, as applied to dimutive suffixation. Following evidence from Modern Greek and its dialects, we propose that diminutive suffixes are heads of their constructions on the basis of certain criteria. First, the inflectional paradigms of a number of diminutive formations show irregularities and gaps that are not justified by the inflectional behavior of the base. Second, diminutive suffixes may change a sem…
Modern Greek V V dvandva compounds: A linguistic innovation in the history of the Indo-European languages
This paper deals with [V V] dvandva compounds, which are frequently used in East and Southeast Asian languages but also in Greek and its dialects: Greek is in this respect uncommon among Indo-European languages. It examines the appearance of this type of compounding in Greek by tracing its development in the late Medieval period, and detects a high rate of productivity in most Modern Greek dialects. It argues that the emergence of the [V V] dvand…
Morphology meets dialectology: Insights from Modern Greek dialects
Compounding versus derivation
This chapter examines the demarcation of compounds and derivative items. It is argued that the two types of constructions belong to word-formation, and intermingle in such a way that only the same grammatical domain could handle them properly. This domain is considered to be morphology, and claims and proposals are exemplified with data drawn from Standard Modern Greek and its dialects.The following issues are tackled:a. The order of application …
Greek derivational structures: Restrictions and Constraints
IE, Hellenic: Modern Greek
Blend formation in Modern Greek
Greek
In Memoriam: Gaberell Drachman (27 June 1925 – 10 September 2014)
Revisiting the Borrowability Scale(s) of Free Grammatical Elements: Evidence from Modern Greek Contact induced Varieties
This article aims to test the general validity of borrowability scales by investigating contrastively two contact induced linguistic varieties of Greek. It tries to elucidate the factors that facilitate or inhibit the borrowability of free grammatical elements, which are usually considered as less amenable to transfer. It argues against the formulation of any borrowability scales of a generalized predictive power, even in cases where there is a c…
Matter versus pattern borrowing in compounding: Evidence from the Asia Minor Greek dialectal variety
Contrasting Romance and Turkish as Source Languages: Evidence from Borrowing Verbs in Modern Greek Dialects
In this paper, I deal with verb borrowing in a language-contact situation involving Greek as target and Romance and Turkish as source languages. More particularly, I discuss the reasons and techniques that make verbs of typologically and genetically different languages to be accommodated in a uniform way within the same linguistic system, and verbs of the same donor to be integrated in a different manner within the same recipient. I try to provid…
Greek-Canadian Koiné: The Emergence of a Koiné among Greek-Canadian Immigrants
The present paper is a contribution to the study of a new Modern Greek variety that is spoken in Canada by first-generation immigrants who arrived in this country between 1945 and 1975. This variety displays features originating from: (a) A Common Modern Greek spoken in Greece around the middle of the 20th century, (b) mutually intelligible characteristics of the immigrants' native dialectal varieties, mainly from the Peloponnese, (c) contact wit…
Μorphological Integration of Loan Words in Kaliardá
This article deals with lexical borrowing and the morphological integration of loan words in Kaliardá, a Greek-based antilanguage, spoken in the urban areas of Greece by socially marginalized communities of cross-dressers, transgender people, and gay men. It is shown that the accommodation of most loans follows the general rules of Modern Greek morphology, namely, the stem-based word formation and compulsory inflection. However, for a considerabl…
Left-Headedness in Compounds of a Right-Headed Language
This article deals with left-headedness in compounding in some dialectal varieties of Greek, a language which is predominantly right-headed. On the basis of data stored in DComp, a dialectal database of the University of Patras containing 17,019 entries, I claim that left-headedness has resulted from the interplay of endogenous and exogenous factors. Given that left-headed compounds appear in the varieties which have been under a long-lasting Rom…
Zero suffixes in Modern Greek derived adjectival formations with alpha privative
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 semantic properties that cannot be attributed to any overt element of the structure. Following a bottom-up approach, we revisit the question of whether zero morphemes are useful in the realm of derivational morphology. We argue for a zero derivational suffix that accoun…
Compounding in Modern Lesbian in Relation to Compounding in Standard Modern Greek
In this article, we deal with the word-formation process of compounding in the Modern Greek dialect of the Aegean island of Lesbos, the so-called “Modern Lesbian”, in comparison to relevant information regarding compounding in Standard Modern Greek. In this dialect, compounding is widespread and constitutes a fertile process of the vocabulary expansion, as in the Greek language in general. Numerous compounds are built, belonging to the three majo…
Linguistics (18 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · History (16 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 works) · Modern Greek (10 works) · History (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (8 works)