Word order and relative prominence in Greek

Moon-Ryul Jung moon at saint.soongsil.ac.kr
Wed Feb 7 07:53:56 EST 2001


Dear Iver,

thanks for the article. I have read it. Would you please explain
the following statement you wrote?
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At the sentence level the relative prominence of the constituents is not
marked so much by their order as by where they are on the specificity
cline.
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Do you mean, for example, that it does not matter in terms of emphasis
whether a participial clause precedes the finite-verb clause or not?

Also, when we say VSO word order, does it take into account 
adverbial phrases? We usually say that a verb and an adverbial clause
forms a verb phrase (VP). Is V in VSO actually VP? 

Moon
Moon-Ryul Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea




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