Artemis Alexiadou
Biographic Data
| ID | 733564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Artemis Alexiadou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Artemis |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexiadou |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXIADOU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6790-232X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 97 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 321 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 85 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 12 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Comparing comparatives: Appropriateness ratings of synthetic, analytic and double comparatives in American and British English
English employs a variety of comparative formation strategies. Theoretical and corpus-based research has established that their distribution depends on a variety of factors. In this article, we take an experimental approach to test analytic, synthetic and double comparative forms in relation to register in American and British English. We report on a rating study investigating the appropriateness and interpretation in terms of evaluativity of the…
Genitive alternation in possessives and beyond: Morphological or structural variation
This paper examines the phenomenon of the genitive alternation in Standard Modern Greek, focusing on the interaction between inflectional genitives and prepositional phrases introduced by apo (‘of, from’). While this alternation could be considered a variation in the realizational component, our findings suggest that the two constructions are not interchangeable and arise from distinct syntactic mechanisms. By analyzing this alternation in the co…
What do children do with do ? Superfluous do in child English
In English, superfluous do is phonologically unstressed, non-emphatic, and occurs in positive assertions. We propose that superfluous do has two different flavours in child English. First, auxiliary do is used by children to express Tense in a one-to-one relation with form. Second, children use do as a light verb to overtly express the concept of action, which is ‘compressed’ in the verbal structure and left silent in standard adult English. We r…
When morphology is not enough: The acquisition of voice in monolingual Greek children and bilingual children with Greek as a heritage language
The acquisition of voice in Greek remains understudied, especially in heritage populations. Voice in Greek poses a challenging acquisition task for children due to its syncretism, marking various verb classes as well as passives. The present study explores the acquisition of anticausatives, reflexives, and passives in 6-to-8-year-old monolingual Greek and Greek-German bilingual children with Greek as their heritage language. This age coincides wi…
Demonstratives in heritage Greek, Russian, and Turkish in Germany and the United States
Aims and Objectives: This study investigates the use of definite noun phrases involving demonstratives in adolescent and adult monolingually raised and heritage speakers of Greek, Russian, and Turkish with the following research questions: (1) Do heritage speakers of Greek, Russian, and Turkish align with monolingually raised speakers regarding the production of demonstratives? and (2) Do mode and register affect the use of demonstratives? Method…
Verbal fluency in Greek: Performance differences between L1Greek-L2English late bilingual and Greek monolingual speakers
Verbal fluency data for semantic (animals, fruit and vegetables and objects) and formal fluency ( X [Chi], Σ [Sigma] Α [Alpha]) were collected from 32 L1Greek-L2English late bilingual speakers and 32 Greek monolinguals. The verbal fluency task has been used in both language attrition and bilingualism studies. Language attrition studies, which mostly employ only the semantic task, show that bilinguals perform worse than monolinguals. In bilinguali…
Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations
Samoan deverbal nominalizations show a crosslinguistically rare tripartite-inactive alignment where unaccusative, unergative, and transitive subjects are distinguished by inalienable genitive, alienable genitive, and ergative case, respectively, with objects being marked like unaccusative subjects (Mosel 1992). In addition, subject clitics exhibit a marked unergative alignment, where only unergative subject clitics are distinctly marked by aliena…
Errors of multiple exponence in child English: A Study of Past Tense Formation
It is well known that children produce non-adult-like forms during language acquisition. Among these are errors where in the fashion of multiple exponence the child overtly marks an underlying feature or category more than once. In addition, children also produce errors where features that are marked fusionally with one form in the target language are marked separately with more than one form by the child. This paper is concerned with such errors…
Double plural marking and the building blocks of nominals
In this paper, I will discuss double plural marking found in various language mixing pairs such as Ewe English, Hiaki Spanish, Bantu English, Bantu French and Greek Turkish. I will contrast this double marking, a case of multiple exponence, to better studied cases of double marking of plurality in languages such as Amharic and Breton. I will argue that double marking can be treated uniformly as an instance of split plurality and offer an analysis…
Feature-exponence mapping in language contact
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The Plural is Unmarked: Evidence from Turkish, Hungarian and German
Quantity distinctions are morphologically indicated in the majority of languages.However, the marking of these distinctions exhibits a high degree of cross-linguistic variation with respect to the number of quantity categories, their agreement properties, and the morphemes themselves. Furthermore, number marking on numerically quantified nouns varies across languages: for instance, while German and English use plural number marking with numerals …
On the source of proportionality in nominal measurement: Evidence from Greek
A large array of nominal measurement structures can give rise to proportional readings, i.e., readings which specify the proportional relation of two measurements. Two key questions in the analysis of such readings is (a) whether nominal measurement structures are (or can be) in some sense inherently proportional or whether proportionality comes to be part of the meaning of nominal measurement via some external factor, like the manipulation of a …
Synthetic-analytic variation in the formation of Greek comparatives and relative superlatives
Many adjectives in Modern Greek form both synthetic and analytic comparatives and relative superlatives. To our knowledge, this is the first work to examine the triggers of the Synthetic-Analytic (S-A) variation in this language by means of a corpus study. To date, numerous studies have shown that a series of predictors (phonological, lexical, syntactic) appear to influence the S-A variation in English. The present paper focuses on some factors m…
Agreement Asymmetries with Adjectives in Heritage Greek
Research on different populations of heritage speakers (HSs) has demonstrated that these speakers (i) frequently produce fewer adjectives, and (ii) produce more errors in nominal concord than in subject-verb agreement. The first point, (i), has been attributed in the literature to the optionality of adjectives and to the fact that adjectives characterize the literary language and HSs lack familiarity with this register. The second point, (ii), is…
Voice Syncretism Crosslinguistically: The View from Minimalism
Voice syncretism is widely attested crosslinguistically. In this paper, we discuss three different types of Voice syncretism, under which the same morpheme participates in different configurations. We provide an approach under which the same Voice head can convey different interpretations depending on the environment it appears in, thus building on the notion of allosemy. We show that, in all cases under investigation, allosemy is closely associa…
The verbal structure in English synthetic compounds
The question whether synthetic compounds should be analyzed as including a verbal core or as root compounds has issued a long theoretical debate in the linguistic literature since the ‘70s. It is precisely their mixed properties that make this debate so difficult to settle. We investigate compounds headed by suffix-based deverbal nouns and propose that they are ambiguous between true synthetic compounds, which include verbal structure, and root c…
Obligatory subjects and the SVO/SOV debate
Clitic left dislocation and inverse scope: Plain indefinites versus numerals
The syntax of Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) has been widely debated due to its mixed properties, which in some cases indicate movement (e.g. island sensitivity, certain connectivity effects) and in other cases base generation of the CLLD-ed phrase (wide scope, lack of weak crossover). In this paper we discuss scope facts with CLLD in Greek, revealing a contrast depending on the type of quantifier. We present experimental evidence that whereas CL…
A Plural Indefinite Article in Heritage Greek: The Role of Register
This paper investigates the use of kati "some" by Greek Heritage Speakers (HSs) in comparison to monolinguals. While all Greek determiners are marked for gender, case, and number, and agree with their nominal complement, kati is an exception, as it lacks agreement and combines only with plural nouns. Building on the existing literature, we show that its function is to remain vague about the number of individuals/entities denoted. Our hypothesis i…
Zero-Derived Nouns in Greek
In this paper, we investigate zero-derived nouns based on irregular verbs in Greek. This is an under-explored area in Greek morpho-syntax, and in this paper, we will make three main contributions. First, we will discuss the fact that the overwhelming majority of these nouns are feminine, while neuter nouns are considerably less represented and masculine nouns are almost nonexistent. As feminine is taken to be the semantically marked gender in the…
Scalar and Counterfactual Approximatives: Investigating Heritage Greek in the USA and Germany
Approximative constructions present special interest for acquisition due to the counterfactual and scalar inferences they give rise to. In this paper we investigate the acquisition of Greek approximatives by heritage speakers in Germany and the USA. We show that while in English and German there is a single lexical item encoding counterfactuality and scalarity, in Greek there are two lexical items which, as we show, have different interpretations…
Bilingual grammar: Toward an integrated model by Luis López
Quantifier scope and information structure in Greek
In this paper, we investigate the availability of inverse scope interpretation in doubly-quantified sentences in Greek. A rather coarse and, as we show, inaccurate empirical generalization is that languages with relatively free word order do not have inverse scope readings, since movement is always spelled-out. In Greek there is little experimental work testing inverse scope with DP-quantifiers and there is considerable disagreement among linguis…
Nominalization: 50 Years on from Chomsky's Remarks
Partitives, pseudopartitives and the preposition apo in Greek
In this paper we revisit the main properties of the partitive (PC) and the pseudopartitive construction (PPC) in Greek placing our focus on the distribution of the preposition apo ‘of/from’, which introduces the partitive complement in the PC but is absent from the PPC. We propose two distinct analyses for the two constructions, which predict the particular distribution of apo as a meaningful preposition, according to our hypothesis. We further d…
Parametrizing Agr: Word Order, V-Movement and Epp-Checking
The Subject-in-Situ Generalization and the Role of Case in Driving Computations
The article establishes a novel generalization concerning the placement of arguments by Spell-Out. It centers on the principles that force arguments to leave the VP across languages. The empirical domain consists of constructions where subject movement is not required for reasons that have to do with the Extended Projection Principle. In these environments and whenever a sentence contains both a subject and a direct object, one of the arguments m…
The syntactic construction of two non-active Voices: Passive and middle
The paper offers a theoretical characterization of the middle Voice as distinct from the passive Voice, and addresses the cross-linguistic morphological variation in realizing these two non-active Voices in different classes of languages, represented by Hebrew, Greek and English. The two non-active Voices are the morphological realization of two distinct syntactic Voice heads generating middle and passive clauses respectively. The former are cros…
Adjective Syntax and Noun Raising: Word Order Asymmetries in the DP as the Result of Adjective Distribution
The paper investigates the triggers and the motivation for noun raising in combination with the interpretation and placement of adjectives within the DP across languages. I point out that first the nature of noun movement is empirically and conceptually problematic. Second, the post-nominal position of adjectives in languages for which it has been argued to result from noun movement is consistent with an analysis of those that capitalizes on thei…
Opaque and transparent datives, and how they behave in passives
Possessors and (in)definiteness
The argument structure of adjectival participles revisited
Number/aspect interactions in the syntax of nominalizations: A Distributed approach
In this paper we focus on the ability of A rgument S upporting N ominalizations (ASNs) to realize morphological plural. We think that this aspect of their behavior is instrumental in our understanding of their properties and their syntax within one language and across languages. Our factual investigation deals with Romanian, English, German and Spanish, as well as Polish and Bulgarian ASNs. We show that the interplay between the aspectual propert…
Middle Voice and reflexive interpretations: Afto-prefixation in Greek
Code-Switching by Phase
We show that the theoretical construct "phase" underlies a number of restrictions on code-switching, in particular those formalized under the Principle of Functional Restriction (González-Vilbazo 2005) and the Phonetic Form Interface Condition (MacSwan and Colina 2014). The fundamental hypothesis that code-switching should be studied using the same tools that we use for monolingual phenomena is reinforced
A Plural Indefinite Article in Heritage Greek: The Role of Register
This paper investigates the use of kati "some" by Greek Heritage Speakers (HSs) in comparison to monolinguals. While all Greek determiners are marked for gender, case, and number, and agree with their nominal complement, kati is an exception, as it lacks agreement and combines only with plural nouns. Building on the existing literature, we show that its function is to remain vague about the number of individuals/entities denoted. Our hypothesis i…
Gender Agreement Mismatches in Heritage Greek
This paper investigates gender agreement mismatches between nominal expressions and the targets of agreement they control in two groups (adults and adolescents) of Heritage Greek speakers in the USA. On the basis of language production data elicited via a narration task, we show that USA Greek Heritage speakers, unlike monolingual controls, show mismatches in gender agreement. We will show that the mismatches observed differ with respect to the a…
Morphological and semantic markedness revisited: The realization of plurality across languages
The paper investigates two related questions that concern the realization of plural morphology on nouns across languages. The first question is whether markedness in the sense of complexity in form goes hand in hand with complexity in meaning. In other words, since plural nouns are formally more complex than singular nouns, does that mean that they differ in interpretation? On the basis of experimental and theoretical investigations the claim is …
The psych causative alternation
Noncanonical passives revisited: Parameters of nonactive Voice
This article aims at offering a novel account of the similarities and differences between get-passives and their be-counterparts. It is shown that get-passives are ambiguous between a passive and an anticausative interpretation. Next, get-passives are compared to anticausatives and dispositional middles, as they seem to share some properties with these two structures. An analysis is offered, according to which get-passives, as well as anticausati…
The problem with internally caused change-of-state verbs
Internally caused change-of-state verbs have recently been established as alternating verbs in languages such as English and Greek, thus becoming an important component of any analysis of the causative alternation. Generally, this type of alternation qualifies as a labile one, as in both intransitive and transitive uses of such verbs the same form is used. The behavior of internally caused change-of-state verbs in the causative alternation, howev…
Perfects, Resultatives, and Auxiliaries in Earlier English
In this article, we investigate the peculiar distribution of the auxiliaries have and be in Earlier English and its consequences for theories of the perfect and auxiliary selection. We argue on the basis of a large-scale corpus study that the periphrastic construction with be was restricted to a stative resultative interpretation, whereas that with have developed a wider range of uses, crucially including the experiential perfect in addition to r…
Adverbs across frameworks☆
Zero-Derived Nouns in Greek
In this paper, we investigate zero-derived nouns based on irregular verbs in Greek. This is an under-explored area in Greek morpho-syntax, and in this paper, we will make three main contributions. First, we will discuss the fact that the overwhelming majority of these nouns are feminine, while neuter nouns are considerably less represented and masculine nouns are almost nonexistent. As feminine is taken to be the semantically marked gender in the…
Novel Experiencer-Object Verbs and Clitic Doubling
This article discusses novel experiencer-object verbs (NEOs) and proposes to align their syntax as well as the syntax of nonagentive experiencer-object verbs to the syntax of verbs undergoing the causative alternation under similar restrictions. We provide support for the view that (i) volitional agents do not occupy the same structural position as nonvolitional causers; (ii) VoiceP creates a phase, that is, a domain of compositional interpretati…
Nominalizations: A Probe into the Architecture of Grammar Part I: The Nominalization Puzzle
Nominalizations have remained in the center of linguistic discussion at least since 1960, and one might be correct in stating that they are still much of a puzzle. In this paper, I offer a partial historical overview of the literature on nominalizations, beginning with a discussion of Chomsky's Remarks on nominalization, surveying the lexicon vs. syntax debate that characterized the research in this area during the 80s and 90s, and concluding wit…
Errors of multiple exponence in child English: A Study of Past Tense Formation
It is well known that children produce non-adult-like forms during language acquisition. Among these are errors where in the fashion of multiple exponence the child overtly marks an underlying feature or category more than once. In addition, children also produce errors where features that are marked fusionally with one form in the target language are marked separately with more than one form by the child. This paper is concerned with such errors…
Agreement Asymmetries with Adjectives in Heritage Greek
Research on different populations of heritage speakers (HSs) has demonstrated that these speakers (i) frequently produce fewer adjectives, and (ii) produce more errors in nominal concord than in subject-verb agreement. The first point, (i), has been attributed in the literature to the optionality of adjectives and to the fact that adjectives characterize the literary language and HSs lack familiarity with this register. The second point, (ii), is…
Scalar and Counterfactual Approximatives: Investigating Heritage Greek in the USA and Germany
Approximative constructions present special interest for acquisition due to the counterfactual and scalar inferences they give rise to. In this paper we investigate the acquisition of Greek approximatives by heritage speakers in Germany and the USA. We show that while in English and German there is a single lexical item encoding counterfactuality and scalarity, in Greek there are two lexical items which, as we show, have different interpretations…
A comparative study of English and Greek tough -movement constructions
Dans cet article, nous discutons des constructions à mouvement tough en grec, que nous comparons à leurs équivalents anglais. Nous soutenons que les données du grec plaident pour une analyse en termes de ‹génération de base› des constructions de mouvement tough . Nous proposons, en outre, une explication du fait que très peu de prédicats fonctionnent comme des prédicats tough dans cette langue. Enfin, nous abordons la question du changement diach…
Papers on syntax and phonology
FAS Papers in Linguistics 3 contains 5 articles
Papers on syntax and learning
FAS Papers in Linguistics 4 contains 7 articles
SVO and EPP in Null Subject Languages and Germanic
In this paper we will examine SVO/VS(O) alternations across languages (Greek/Spanish, English, Icelandic ) within the framework of the Minimalist Program (cf. Chomsky 1995) that restricts optional operations. We will argue that SVO in Greek/Spanish involves LeftDislocation and that inverted orders lack an expletive unlike English/Icelandic. We will propose that although the above holds, Greek/Spanish are strong EPP languages. Crucially, we will p…
Papers on syntax and semantics
Prefatory NoteOn 1 January 1992, the Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typology und Universalienforschung (= FAS) [Research Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals] was set up as one of seven newly founded research centres for the humanities. In line with the recommendations of the Scientific Council of Germany, the FAS is conceived of as an independent institute of innovative basic research in linguistics havi…
Papers on syntax and morphology
FAS Working Papers in Linguistics 2 contains 9 articles
The syntactic and semantic properties of free relatives in Modern Greek
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On the common formal properties of scrambling and clitic doubling
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Papers on phonetics and phonology
ZASPiL 7 contains 8 articles
Papers on syntax
ZASPiL 5 contains 8 articles
Papers on clitics
ZASPiL 6 contains a preface on page 1 by Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University) and 13 articles
Adverb Placement: A case study in antisymmetric syntax
This monograph investigates a number of central issues in the Syntax of Adverbs with special reference to Greek in the light of Kayne's (1994) Antisymmetry Hypothesis. It examines the conditions on the placement of the various adverb types, their licensing requirements, and their relation to adjectives. The author advances an analysis according to which adverbs are licensed as Specifiers of functional projections in the clausal domain. As such, t…
Crosslinguistic asymmetries in Noun-Movement: A view from Morphology
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Papers on focus and ellipsis
ZASPiL 9 contains 6 articles
Papers on syntax, semantics, phonology and acquisition
ZASPiL 8 contains 9 articles
Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Determiner Phrase
(A)symmetries in DPs and clauses: Evidence from derived nominals
The aim of this paper is to investigate adjectival modification in Greek DPs headed by a derived nominal. In particular, it will examine how many and which types of adjectives may hierarchically modify a derived event noun, in which order(s) they occur, and whether these adjective types have an adverbial counterpart in the clausal projection, thus requiring a richer DP structure in terms of functional projections than non-derived DPs. It will arg…
Papers on syntax of clefts, pseudo-clefts, relative clauses, and the semantics of present perfect
ZASPiL 10 contains 8 articles
Specificational pseudoclefts and the semantics of lists
In this paper we propose a novel account of specificational -nonpredicational- copular sentences building on quite old insights found in Higgins (1979)
Papers of the Conference on 'The word as a phonetic unit': ZAS, Berlin, October 22 - 23, 1997
ZASPiL 11 contains 15 articles. Three notes on the table of contents:1) In the table of contents of the printed volume, Christoph Draxler's article on page 61 is listed under the title “Datenbanksysteme für gesprochene Sprachkorpora”. However, as the article on page 61 is entitled “Introduction to the PhonDat database for spoken German”, this title version has been adopted for the published online version.2) In the table of contents of the printe…
Papers on morphology
ZASPiL 13 contains 8 articles. PrefaceMost of these papers were given at the meeting 'Historische Linguistik und Grammatik-theorien II' which was held on December 12 and 13, 1997, at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. It was the annual meeting of the Project 'Diachronische Adäquatheitstheorien an Grammatiktheorien' which has existed since 1996 under the leadership of Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel of the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprach…
Parametrizing Agr: Word Order, V-Movement and Epp-Checking
Studies in Greek Syntax
Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation
1. Introduction (by Alexiadou, Artemis) 2. Typological Implications of a directionality constraint on projections (by Haider, Hubert) 3. Universal Grammar and the Typology of Ergative Languages (by Mahajan, Anoop K.) 4. Some Properties of Ellipsis in Coordination (by Wilder, Chris) 5. Deriving the Parametrisation of the Mapping Hypothesis (by Adger, David) 6. Syntactic Dependencies and their properties: weak islands (by Manzini, Maria Rita) 7. On…
Some remarks on word order and information structure in Romance and Greek
This paper is a preliminary comparative study of the relation between word order and information structure in three Null Subject Languages ((NSLs) Spanish, Italian and Greek). The aim is twofold: first I seek to examine the differences and the similarities among these languages in this domain of their syntax. Secon, I investigate the possible derivations of the various patterns and attempt to localize the differences among these languages in diff…
Functional Structure in Nominals: Nominalization and ergativity
This monograph offers an in depth investigation of nominalization processes across languages e.g. Greek, Germanic, Romance, Hebrew, Slavic. Adopting and extending the view that category formation does not involve any lexical operation (recently put forth within the framework of Distributed Morphology), it shows how the behavior of nominals as opposed to that of verbs follows from general processes operating in specific syntactic structures, and i…
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