scholarly journals PERFECTIVE AND IMPERFECTIVE ASPECT: A CASE STYDY OF L2 SERBIAN STUDENTS OF MODERN GREEK

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Vojkan B. Stojičić ◽  
Martha P. Lampropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Greek Language ◽  
Verbal Aspect ◽  
Imperfective Aspect ◽  
Sample Group ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Written Production ◽  
Written Performance ◽  
The Way

This paper attempts to highlight common errors made by Serbian learners of L2 Modern Greek in relation to verbal aspect. It begins by exploring terms such as aspect and perfectivity in the Modern Greek language and then presents an analysis based on the written performance of our sample group. This analysis is crucial since it examines the way in which the written production of the participants evolved over the four years of their academic studies, something that deepens our understanding of the way this grammatical area is acquired by Serbian learners.

The Light of the Flame

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Bintsi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents a study of light, in particular light produced by flame, by investigating the most representative lighting devices used in preindustrial Greece. The symbolism of lighting devices in traditional Greek society, used either out of necessity or in ritual ceremonies and customs as well as in representations in art and in social discourse, is examined to reveal aspects of that society, its common beliefs, and its social differentiation. The oral literature, the myths and sayings still in use in Greek language, are studied as cognitive instruments, as forms of thought, to understand the way people interpret the world and act within it. Finally, the oil lamp, and its ceremonial use in Modern Greek society, which is closely connected to the Orthodox Christian rituals, is interpreted as a symbol that represents national and cultural identities.

scholarly journals Diglossic past and present lexicographical practices

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assimakis Tseronis
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
Language Question ◽  
The Way

The publication of a dictionary is a means to describe, codify and ultimately standardise a language. This process is complicated by the lexicographer’s own attitude towards the language and the public’s sensitivity on language matters. The recent publication of the two most authoritative dictionaries of Modern Greek and their respective lexical coverage reveals the continuing survival of the underlying ideologies of the two sponsoring institutions concerning the history of the Greek language, as well as their opposing standpoints on the language question over the past decades, some 25 years after the constitutional resolution of the Greek diglossia, affecting the way they describe the synchronic state of language. The two dictionaries proceed from opposing starting points in attempting to influence and set a pace for the standardisation of Modern Greek by presenting two different aspects of the synchronic state of Greek, one of which focuses on the long history of the language and thus takes the present state to be only a link in an uninterrupted chain dating from antiquity, and the other of which focuses on the present state of Greek and thus takes this fully developed autonomous code to be the outcome of past linguistic processes and socio-cultural changes in response to the linguistic community’s present needs. The absence of a sufficiently representative corpus has restrained the descriptive capacity of the two dictionaries and has given space for ideology to come into play, despite the fact that both dictionaries have made concessions in order to account for the present-day Greek language.

scholarly journals THE FUNCTION OF THE SET AND FROZEN EXPRESSIONS IN THE MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE IN NEWS, ADVERTISING AND MEDIA: A CORPUS BASED APPROACH.

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
George Alexandropoulos
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Fixed Expressions ◽  
The Way

This paper studies the function of the set and frozen fixed expressions in Modern Greek in news, media and advertising. Its purpose is to describe, through the building of a digital corpus the way that newspapers, magazines, TV programs and advertisements use these expressions and understand the reason for their stabilization and change into types.

scholarly journals Discriminating the registers and styles in the modern Greek language

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Tambouratzis ◽  
Stella Markantonatou ◽  
Nikolaos Hairetakis ◽  
Marina Vassiliou ◽  
Dimitrios Tambouratzis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greek Language ◽  
Modern Greek

scholarly journals Once more on the verbal aspect and linguistic politeness in the Slavonic imperative: A parallel with Greek

2013 ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Rosanna Benacchio
Keyword(s):  
Second Person ◽  
Verbal Aspect ◽  
Perfective Aspect ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Linguistic Politeness ◽  
Slavonic Language

In the present paper the results from previous research on aspect in the imperative, done first for Russian and subsequently for the remaining Slavonic languages, are applied to another, non Slavonic language that also expresses the category of verbal aspect with morphological means, ie. modern Greek. It is confirmed that in imperative forms the verbal aspect may have pragmatical implications as regards preserving or cancelling distance and, more generally speaking, as regards (im-) politeness. That is, in Greek, similar to what was observed in some Slavonic languages (i.e. Serbian and Czech, but not in Russian) requests for actions that are expressed with the perfective aspect (ie. with aorist stem) are more neutral, ?correct?, formal, while those expressed with the imperfective (ie. with the present stem) are more informal, direct and therefore potentially impolite. The latter can be used at most in informal contexts in which the imperative, directed at a person, is expressed by means of the allocutive pronoun of the second person singular.

scholarly journals METHODS OF USING IMMERSION TEACHING MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE IN A HIGHER EDUCATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalya Voyevutko ◽  
Olena Kuligina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Modern Greek

The Influence of Katharevousa on the Phonology of Modern Greek

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 84-109
Author(s):  
Margaret Kofod
Keyword(s):  
Greek Language ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
The People

Much has been written on Greek diglossia and the language struggle (between katharevousa and dhimotiki). Defenders of katharevousa have emphasized the importance of the language’s roots in ancient Greek, opponents of katharevousa have emphasized the idea that the Greek language should be first and foremost ‘the language of the people’.

scholarly journals The Modern Greek Language on the Social Web: A Survey of Data Sets and Mining Applications

Data ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Maria Nefeli Nikiforos ◽  
Yorghos Voutos ◽  
Anthi Drougani ◽  
Phivos Mylonas ◽  
Katia Lida Kermanidis
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
The Social

Mining social web text has been at the heart of the Natural Language Processing and Data Mining research community in the last 15 years. Though most of the reported work is on widely spoken languages, such as English, the significance of approaches that deal with less commonly spoken languages, such as Greek, is evident for reasons of preserving and documenting minority languages, cultural and ethnic diversity, and identifying intercultural similarities and differences. The present work aims at identifying, documenting and comparing social text data sets, as well as mining techniques and applications on social web text that target Modern Greek, focusing on the arising challenges and the potential for future research in the specific less widely spoken language.

Adjectives and Event Structure

2019 ◽  
pp. 367-392
Author(s):  
Rebekah Baglini ◽  
Christopher Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Structural Properties ◽  
Event Structure ◽  
Scale Structure ◽  
Verbal Aspect ◽  
Verb Phrase ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Scalar Properties ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter investigates the relationship between adjectives and event structure by looking at properties of deverbal adjectives and deadjectival verbs. Although simple adjectives are not eventive, they nevertheless play an important role in matters of event structure, both in the way that they influence the eventive properties of verbs that they are derivationally related to, and in the way that an understanding of the scalar properties of adjectival meaning informs theorizing about eventive meanings. Although often considered in isolation, we show that adjectival gradability and verbal aspect are intimately related scalar phenomena. The structural properties of an adjectival scale determine the aspectual class of a derived event predicate. Similarly, the aspectual structure of a verb phrase constrains the scale structure of an adjectival participle. Our discussion focuses primarily on degree-based approaches to these phenomena, but we also consider alternative approaches based in a more articulated ontology for states.

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