The Grammar of Space
Soteria Svorou
[Typological Studies in Language, 25] 1994. xiv, 290 pp.
Soteria Svorou
List of John Benjamins publications for which Soteria Svorou plays a role.
Title
Subjects Functional linguistics | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Typology
Articles
2018 Constructional pressures on ‘sit’ in Modern Greek Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. 17–58 | Chapter
This study argues for a constructional account of the non-postural senses of Modern Greek verb kaθοme ‘I sit’. Corpus data provide a detailed account of the constructional pressures on kaθοme as V1 in conjunctive coordination of verbs (V1 and V2) and show that the non-postural senses emerge in… read more
2002 Semantic constraints in the grammaticalization of locative constructions New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 121–142 | Article