Clause Intertwining and Word Order in Ancient Greek

Diachronic Trends in Word Order Freedom and Dependency Length in Dependency-Annotated Corpora of Latin and Ancient Greek

One easily observable aspect of language variation is the order of words. In human and machine natural language processing, it is often claimed that parsing freeorder languages is more difficult than parsing fixed-order languages. In this study on Latin and Ancient Greek, two wellknown and well-documented free-order languages, we propose syntactic correlates of word order freedom. We apply our ...

Word Order, Clause Union, and the Formal Machinery of Syntax

Perception of focus and word order variability in Greek

This is an experimental study of prosodic focus and syntactic word order interactions with reference to agent/recipient semantic relations in Greek. In accordance with one perception experiment, the results in morphology neutral context indicate: (1) listeners do not perceive agent and recipient semantic distinctions and (2) prosody and focus applications do not thus have any perception effect ...

Prosodic emphasis versus word order in Greek instructive texts

In Greek instructive texts, the production of clear and precise instructions is achieved by both prosodic modelling (Alexandris, Fotinea & Efthimiou, 2005) and morphosyntactic strategies (Alexandris, 2005). In the set of experiments performed in the present study, we attempt to determine whether prosodic modelling or whether morphosyntactic strategies, namely word order, constitutes the most cr...

Space, agency and word order: Evidence from Greek

We examined the role of spatial representations and word order on thematic role assignment in Greek. Previous studies suggest that spatial representations influence thematic role assignment; agent is typically depicted on the left, and patient on the right. Here, we address this issue using a language with flexible word order which allows us to manipulate sentence structure (SVO–OVS) orthogonal...