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Interview with Theofanis Stavrou
No full textClarke A. Chambers interviews Theofanis Stavrou, a professor associated with the Department of History and the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies.Stavrou, Theofanis; Chambers, Clarke A.. (1998). Interview with Theofanis Stavrou. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/50685
Greek dialects in Southern Italy: nominal syntax between Greek and Romance?
No full textThe present work expands the empirical base of Guardiano & Stavrou 2014 (henceforth G&S) and discusses the problems that arise
Yet, up to our current knowledge, no significant dissimilarity has emerged2 so far with respect to the properties explored here.
from the newly collected data concerning patterns of adjectival modification in the nominal structure of the minority variety of Greek
The empirical information was collected from on-purpose interviews with native speakers, and
spoken in Southern Calabria (henceforth Bovese), which we compare to the other Greek variety (henceforth Grico), some Romance integrated, when needed, with evidence provided in the literature.
dialects spoken in Southern Italy and Standard Greek
The Greek dialects in Southern Italy. Effects of language contact on nominal syntax.
No full textBackground. According to some recent analyses (Guardiano 2006, Alexiadou, Haegeman, Stavrou 2007) of the Greek Determiner Phrase, adnominal adjectives are unexceptionally prenominal, despite some apparent evidence to the contrary ((a) postnominal adjectives in definite DPs with their own definite article and (b) unarticulated postnominal adjectives in indefinite DPs). It has been shown that articulated adjectives, constituting the phenomenon called polydefiniteness or determiner spread (to pedi to kalo), and also postnominal adjectives in indefinite DPs have a number of properties setting them apart from ordinary modification of nouns by prenominal adjectives ((to) kalo pedi) (Alexiadou&Wilder 1998, Kolliakou 2004, Campos&Stavrou 2004). One more relevant claim is that the so-called polydefinite construction corresponds to postnominal adjectives in Italian primarily in terms of interpretation (Alexiadou et al 2007).Topic. Against this background, the present study aims at investigating this particular subdomain in the two minority varieties of Greek spoken in Salento (henceforth Grico) and in Southern Calabria (henceforth Bovese). Both varieties show certain peculiarities in the syntax of adjectives that, once compared to that of other Romance dialects spoken in the same area, suggest non-trivial phenomena of contact-induced change
The role of fidelity in goal-oriented semantic communication: A rate distortion approach
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Indirect NRDF for partially observable Gauss-Markov processes with MSE distortion: Characterizations and optimal solutions
No full textAdjective-noun combination in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy. Polydefiniteness revisited
No full textThis study investigates aspects of adjectival modification in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy. All the dialects examined (Greek and Romance) display strong constraints on prenominal adjectives. In the Romance dialects, such constraints are stronger than in Italian: actually, the phenomenon sets apart Southern Italy from the rest of the Romance-speaking world. As for Italiot Greek, prenominal adjectives obey restrictions that do not exist in (Standard) Greek (where all types of adjectives are allowed in prenominal position): this sets a crucial syntactic distinction between the two. As far as postnominal adjectives are concerned, in Romance all adjectives can be postnominal, with no constraints operating on them, and Southern Italy is coherent with this picture. In Greek, instead, the picture is more complicated: in the textual tradition of Calabria Greek, postnominal adjectives are articulated in definite DPs, like in Modern Greek, while in Salento Greek and in currently spoken Calabria Greek they are never articulated, like in Romance. The paper explores all such patterns, with particular attention to postnominal modification
Risk-aware resource allocation for semantic communications: A cumulative prospect theory approach
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