Arhonto Terzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 821072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arhonto Terzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arhonto |
| FAMILY NAME | Terzi |
| SIGNATURE | TERZI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Patras |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-6171-6865 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Animation in Speech, Language, and Communication Assessment of Children: A Scoping Review
Animation has been used to assess speech, language, and communication skills in children. We aimed to map and synthesize relevant research addressing how and when animation is used for assessment purposes in speech–language pathology practice. Four databases were searched, yielding 18 studies that met the inclusion criteria. Data was extracted on study design, objectives, participant characteristics, results, assessment areas, purposes of animati…
A web-based application for eliciting narrative discourse from Greek-speaking people with and without language impairments
In this paper we present a web-based data collection method designed to elicit narrative discourse from adults with and without language impairments, both in an in-person set up and remotely. We describe the design, methodological considerations and technical requirements regarding the application development, the elicitation tasks, materials and guidelines, as well as the implementation of the assessment procedure. To investigate the efficacy of…
Exploring syntactically encoded evidentiality
The most recent studies on the acquisition of evidentiality, be it morphologically or syntactically encoded, have argued that the comprehension lag detected is due to factors having to do with others’ authority or mental perspective, where “others” stands for other individuals involved in the experiment in various manners (e.g., the experimenter or someone in the props). However, these studies have yet to detect the age at which children eventual…
Development and validation of a task battery for verbal and non-verbal first- and second-order theory of mind
This paper presents a new toolkit for assessing Theory of Mind (ToM) via performance in first and second-order false belief (FB) tasks. The toolkit includes verbal and non-verbal versions of first and second-order FB tasks; the verbal version is currently available in Greek and German. Scenarios in the toolkit are balanced for factors that may influence performance, like the reason for the FB (deception, change-of-location, unexpected content). T…
Locality and Intervention in the Acquisition of Greek Relative Clauses
According to the most recent formulation of Relativized Minimality, grammatical features are distinguished between those that are syntactically active and those that are not. Under this view, only the first play a role in the computation of locality. Furthermore, whether a certain feature is +/− syntactically active is determined by language-specific factors. Gender is one of the grammatical features that has been argued to have different values …
Greek and English passives, and the role of by -phrases
This paper proposes an analysis in which passive by-phrases are merged as the arguments of the active with the corresponding theta roles (Hasegawa 1988; D’Hulst 1992; Mahajan 1994; Goodall 1997; 1999; Caha 2009; Collins 2018a; Roberts 2019; Karlík 2020 and Hallman 2020). The analysis finds support in new data from Greek and English showing that, just like the DP arguments of the active, by-phrases bear the same range of theta roles and can bind a…
Complex Spatial Expressions
This chapter highlights the main approaches to the syntactic structure of spatial expressions, from the days when they were not distinguished from other prepositions (Ps) until today. It provides a brief overview of Jackendoff's insights on rejecting the status of various Ps as case featu•res of nouns and of van Riemsdijk's work, which set the foundations for articulating a detailed structure of Ps (sometimes classified into motion Ps and others)…
Licensing silent structure: The spatial prepositions of Shupamem
Greek and Hebrew locative prepositional phrases: A unified Case-driven account
The acquisition of control crosslinguistically: Structural and lexical factors in learning to licence PRO
Rules for interpreting empty category (EC) subjects of complement clauses vary crosslinguistically across structural and lexical dimensions. In adult Greek, a distinction is made between the verbs meaning WANT and TRY, the former but not the latter permitting the EC subject of its subjunctive complement to refer outside the sentence. The EC is pro for WANT and PRO for TRY. In adult Spanish, both the verbs meaning WANT and TRY require the EC subje…
Clitic Combinations, Their Hosts and Their Ordering
PRO and null Case in finite clauses
A study of Greek subjunctive complements reveals that in a number of instances their null subject is PRO rather than an empty pronominal. We demonstrate that the same holds true for subjunctive clauses in subject position, which manifest the PRO-gating facts associated with English gerunds. Greek subjunctives are introduced by the subjunctive marker, an inflectional particle typical of the Balkan language group. In a framework that dispenses with…
Imperatives, V-movement and logical mood
Imperative Vs with distinctive morphology either have a distinctive syntax (Modern Greek, Spanish), or distribute like others Vs (Serbo-Croatian, Ancient Greek). The contrast follows from properties of the root C. The first type has a strong Imperative V-feature in C, and under Chomsky's Greed Principle, Imperative Vs raise overtly to check this feature. The second type is the Wackernagel language, whose C hosts no features, but V-features are in…
Imperatives, V-movement and logical mood
Imperative Vs with distinctive morphology either have a distinctive syntax (Modern Greek, Spanish), or distribute like others Vs (Serbo-Croatian, Ancient Greek). The contrast follows from properties of the root C. The first type has a strong Imperative V-feature in C, and under Chomsky's Greed Principle, Imperative Vs raise overtly to check this feature. The second type is the Wackernagel language, whose C hosts no features, but V-features are in…
Clitic Combinations, Their Hosts and Their Ordering
Licensing silent structure: The spatial prepositions of Shupamem
Greek and Hebrew locative prepositional phrases: A unified Case-driven account
Imperatives, V-movement and logical mood
Imperative Vs with distinctive morphology either have a distinctive syntax (Modern Greek, Spanish), or distribute like others Vs (Serbo-Croatian, Ancient Greek). The contrast follows from properties of the root C. The first type has a strong Imperative V-feature in C, and under Chomsky's Greed Principle, Imperative Vs raise overtly to check this feature. The second type is the Wackernagel language, whose C hosts no features, but V-features are in…
PRO and null Case in finite clauses
A study of Greek subjunctive complements reveals that in a number of instances their null subject is PRO rather than an empty pronominal. We demonstrate that the same holds true for subjunctive clauses in subject position, which manifest the PRO-gating facts associated with English gerunds. Greek subjunctives are introduced by the subjunctive marker, an inflectional particle typical of the Balkan language group. In a framework that dispenses with…
Clitic Combinations, Their Hosts and Their Ordering
The acquisition of control crosslinguistically: Structural and lexical factors in learning to licence PRO
Rules for interpreting empty category (EC) subjects of complement clauses vary crosslinguistically across structural and lexical dimensions. In adult Greek, a distinction is made between the verbs meaning WANT and TRY, the former but not the latter permitting the EC subject of its subjunctive complement to refer outside the sentence. The EC is pro for WANT and PRO for TRY. In adult Spanish, both the verbs meaning WANT and TRY require the EC subje…
Greek and Hebrew locative prepositional phrases: A unified Case-driven account
Licensing silent structure: The spatial prepositions of Shupamem
Complex Spatial Expressions
This chapter highlights the main approaches to the syntactic structure of spatial expressions, from the days when they were not distinguished from other prepositions (Ps) until today. It provides a brief overview of Jackendoff's insights on rejecting the status of various Ps as case featu•res of nouns and of van Riemsdijk's work, which set the foundations for articulating a detailed structure of Ps (sometimes classified into motion Ps and others)…
Greek and English passives, and the role of by -phrases
This paper proposes an analysis in which passive by-phrases are merged as the arguments of the active with the corresponding theta roles (Hasegawa 1988; D’Hulst 1992; Mahajan 1994; Goodall 1997; 1999; Caha 2009; Collins 2018a; Roberts 2019; Karlík 2020 and Hallman 2020). The analysis finds support in new data from Greek and English showing that, just like the DP arguments of the active, by-phrases bear the same range of theta roles and can bind a…
Locality and Intervention in the Acquisition of Greek Relative Clauses
According to the most recent formulation of Relativized Minimality, grammatical features are distinguished between those that are syntactically active and those that are not. Under this view, only the first play a role in the computation of locality. Furthermore, whether a certain feature is +/− syntactically active is determined by language-specific factors. Gender is one of the grammatical features that has been argued to have different values …
A web-based application for eliciting narrative discourse from Greek-speaking people with and without language impairments
In this paper we present a web-based data collection method designed to elicit narrative discourse from adults with and without language impairments, both in an in-person set up and remotely. We describe the design, methodological considerations and technical requirements regarding the application development, the elicitation tasks, materials and guidelines, as well as the implementation of the assessment procedure. To investigate the efficacy of…
Exploring syntactically encoded evidentiality
The most recent studies on the acquisition of evidentiality, be it morphologically or syntactically encoded, have argued that the comprehension lag detected is due to factors having to do with others’ authority or mental perspective, where “others” stands for other individuals involved in the experiment in various manners (e.g., the experimenter or someone in the props). However, these studies have yet to detect the age at which children eventual…
Development and validation of a task battery for verbal and non-verbal first- and second-order theory of mind
This paper presents a new toolkit for assessing Theory of Mind (ToM) via performance in first and second-order false belief (FB) tasks. The toolkit includes verbal and non-verbal versions of first and second-order FB tasks; the verbal version is currently available in Greek and German. Scenarios in the toolkit are balanced for factors that may influence performance, like the reason for the FB (deception, change-of-location, unexpected content). T…
Animation in Speech, Language, and Communication Assessment of Children: A Scoping Review
Animation has been used to assess speech, language, and communication skills in children. We aimed to map and synthesize relevant research addressing how and when animation is used for assessment purposes in speech–language pathology practice. Four databases were searched, yielding 18 studies that met the inclusion criteria. Data was extracted on study design, objectives, participant characteristics, results, assessment areas, purposes of animati…
Linguistics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Language Development and Disorders (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Sentence (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Locative case (3 works)