Stavros Skopeteas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stavros Skopeteas is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 9. Within language variation in V-final projections: Objects and goals in Tush (Tsova-Tush, Batsbi) Theoretical Issues in the Languages of the Caucasus, Atlamaz, Ümit, Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk (eds.), pp. 282–311 | Chapter
OV languages exhibit variation in the contextual conditions under which they permit postverbal constituents. In some OV languages, such as Turkish, postverbal constituents cannot be focused, while in other OV languages, such as Georgian, postverbal foci are possible. Moreover, variation exists… read more
2018 Chapter 2. Prosodic separation of postverbal material in Georgian: A corpus study on syntax-phonology interface Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 17–50 | Chapter
A striking property of Georgian intonation is that focused postverbal material is prosodically separated from the core clause. The challenge of the present study is to assess the external validity of this experimental result by means of a corpus study. Corpus data is known to contain immense… read more
2010 Focus types and argument asymmetries: A cross-linguistic study in language production Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure, Breul, Carsten and Edward Göbbel (eds.), pp. 169–198 | Article
The effects of focus on syntax differ across languages: some languages encode focus in situ, while in other languages focus induces an array of constructions that deviate from the canonical configuration, such as non-canonical orders or clefts. This article presents semi-spontaneously produced data… read more