[b-greek] Re: Word order and relative prominence in Greek

From: Moon-Ryul Jung (moon@saint.soongsil.ac.kr)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 07:53:56 EST


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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