Stavros Skopetea
Biographic Data
| ID | 822414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stavros Skopetea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stavros |
| FAMILY NAME | Skopetea |
| SIGNATURE | SKOPETEA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2827-0518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resuming topics and foci: Anyi, Baule and microvariation in Kwa languages
Left peripheral topics and foci often differ with respect to resumption: in languages such as Italian, Tzotzil Maya, and Warlpiri, while fronted topics may be co-indexed with a pronominal form in the corresponding argument position, fronted foci correspond to a gap. However, this contrast does not universally apply. In languages such as Anyi and Baule, two Kwa languages of Côte d’Ivoire, subjects and animate objects must be resumed by a pronoun w…
La variación del maya yucateco en la percepción de hablantes nativos
En este artículo se explora el efecto de proximidad en la identificación de los espacios geográficos en donde se habla diferente desde la percepción de los hablantes nativos de la lengua maya de la península de Yucatán. Los rasgos más salientes que los hablantes identifican entre una variedad y otra se encuentran en la entonación, la velocidad de la elocución, así como en el léxico. Los datos obtenidos son de un total de 73 personas entrevistadas…
On the Impact of Case and Prosody on Thematic Role Disambiguation: An Eye-Tracking Study on Hungarian
Thematic-role assignment is influenced by several classes of cues during sentence comprehension, ranging from morphological exponents of syntactic relation such as case and agreement to probabilistic cues such as prosody. The effect of these cues cross-linguistically varies, presumably reflecting their language-specific robustness in signaling thematic roles. However, language-specific frequencies are not mapped onto the cue strength in a one-to-…
Discontinuous noun phrases in Yucatec Maya
Languages differ in whether or not they allow discontinuous noun phrases. If they do, they further vary in the ways the nominal projections interact with the available syntactic operations. Yucatec Maya has two left-peripheral configurations that differ syntactically: a preverbal position for foci or wh -elements that is filled in by movement, and the possibility to adjoin topics at the highest clausal layer. These two structural options are refl…
Special issue on formal pragmatics
Licensing Focus Constructions In Yucatec Maya
An important challenge in the study of focus constructions is teasing out the properties of the layers of linguistic structure that are involved, in particular identifying which interpretational properties are associated with the syntactic operation at issue, which properties arise through inferential processes, and which properties can be deduced on the basis of the prosodic structure. This article undertakes this challenge in a language with a …
Focus and the exclusion of alternatives: On the interaction of syntactic structure with pragmatic inference
Projective vs. interpretational properties of nuclear accents and the phonology of contrastive focus in Greek
Nuclear accents have two interesting properties. First, they have a projective property, i.e. they may refer to a focus domain that encompasses a higher syntactic projection. Second, at least for some languages, nuclear accents may have an interpretational property, i.e., they may have alternative realizations that reveal particular interpretations, such as contrast, correction, surprise, etc. The present article examines the interaction between …
Focus in Georgian and the expression of contrast
The discourse function of inverse voice: An experimental study in Teribe (Chibchan)
The interaction between topicalization and structural constraints: Evidence from Yucatec Maya
This article deals with the syntactic and pragmatic properties of left dislocated constituents in Yucatec Maya. It has been argued that these constituents are topics, which implies that a particular structural configuration, namely left dislocation displays a 1:1 correspondence to a particular discourse function. We present evidence that the discourse properties of left dislocation are not uniform: only a subset of the left dislocated constituent…
Word order and intonation in Georgian
Licensing Focus Constructions In Yucatec Maya
An important challenge in the study of focus constructions is teasing out the properties of the layers of linguistic structure that are involved, in particular identifying which interpretational properties are associated with the syntactic operation at issue, which properties arise through inferential processes, and which properties can be deduced on the basis of the prosodic structure. This article undertakes this challenge in a language with a …
Focus in Georgian and the expression of contrast
Focus and the exclusion of alternatives: On the interaction of syntactic structure with pragmatic inference
Word order and intonation in Georgian
Discontinuous noun phrases in Yucatec Maya
Languages differ in whether or not they allow discontinuous noun phrases. If they do, they further vary in the ways the nominal projections interact with the available syntactic operations. Yucatec Maya has two left-peripheral configurations that differ syntactically: a preverbal position for foci or wh -elements that is filled in by movement, and the possibility to adjoin topics at the highest clausal layer. These two structural options are refl…
The discourse function of inverse voice: An experimental study in Teribe (Chibchan)
The interaction between topicalization and structural constraints: Evidence from Yucatec Maya
This article deals with the syntactic and pragmatic properties of left dislocated constituents in Yucatec Maya. It has been argued that these constituents are topics, which implies that a particular structural configuration, namely left dislocation displays a 1:1 correspondence to a particular discourse function. We present evidence that the discourse properties of left dislocation are not uniform: only a subset of the left dislocated constituent…
Word order and intonation in Georgian
Projective vs. interpretational properties of nuclear accents and the phonology of contrastive focus in Greek
Nuclear accents have two interesting properties. First, they have a projective property, i.e. they may refer to a focus domain that encompasses a higher syntactic projection. Second, at least for some languages, nuclear accents may have an interpretational property, i.e., they may have alternative realizations that reveal particular interpretations, such as contrast, correction, surprise, etc. The present article examines the interaction between …
Focus in Georgian and the expression of contrast
The discourse function of inverse voice: An experimental study in Teribe (Chibchan)
Focus and the exclusion of alternatives: On the interaction of syntactic structure with pragmatic inference
Licensing Focus Constructions In Yucatec Maya
An important challenge in the study of focus constructions is teasing out the properties of the layers of linguistic structure that are involved, in particular identifying which interpretational properties are associated with the syntactic operation at issue, which properties arise through inferential processes, and which properties can be deduced on the basis of the prosodic structure. This article undertakes this challenge in a language with a …
Special issue on formal pragmatics
Discontinuous noun phrases in Yucatec Maya
Languages differ in whether or not they allow discontinuous noun phrases. If they do, they further vary in the ways the nominal projections interact with the available syntactic operations. Yucatec Maya has two left-peripheral configurations that differ syntactically: a preverbal position for foci or wh -elements that is filled in by movement, and the possibility to adjoin topics at the highest clausal layer. These two structural options are refl…
On the Impact of Case and Prosody on Thematic Role Disambiguation: An Eye-Tracking Study on Hungarian
Thematic-role assignment is influenced by several classes of cues during sentence comprehension, ranging from morphological exponents of syntactic relation such as case and agreement to probabilistic cues such as prosody. The effect of these cues cross-linguistically varies, presumably reflecting their language-specific robustness in signaling thematic roles. However, language-specific frequencies are not mapped onto the cue strength in a one-to-…
La variación del maya yucateco en la percepción de hablantes nativos
En este artículo se explora el efecto de proximidad en la identificación de los espacios geográficos en donde se habla diferente desde la percepción de los hablantes nativos de la lengua maya de la península de Yucatán. Los rasgos más salientes que los hablantes identifican entre una variedad y otra se encuentran en la entonación, la velocidad de la elocución, así como en el léxico. Los datos obtenidos son de un total de 73 personas entrevistadas…
Resuming topics and foci: Anyi, Baule and microvariation in Kwa languages
Left peripheral topics and foci often differ with respect to resumption: in languages such as Italian, Tzotzil Maya, and Warlpiri, while fronted topics may be co-indexed with a pronominal form in the corresponding argument position, fronted foci correspond to a gap. However, this contrast does not universally apply. In languages such as Anyi and Baule, two Kwa languages of Côte d’Ivoire, subjects and animate objects must be resumed by a pronoun w…
Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (10 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Focus (optics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Physics (5 works)