Eleni Valma
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eleni Valma plays a role.
Articles
2016 Modern Greek -tos (τος) and -menos (μενος): Two truly aspectual suffixes* Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues, Guentchéva, Zlatka (ed.), pp. 505–524 | Article
In this paper, a detailed semantic classification of Modern Greek verbal adjectives ending in -tos and -menos are attempted. The semantic properties of the two adjectival forms show their contrast. According to our analysis, they express at least two different values of the aspectual notion “state”. read more
2010 Coordination and subordination: Áma in Bulgarian dialectal Greek Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and pragmatics, Bril, Isabelle (ed.), pp. 603–618 | Article
This article studies the relator áma in dialectal Greek as spoken in Bulgaria. The relator is polysemous and marks temporality and hypotheses, it is also polyfunctional and serves as a subordinator and a coordinator. Our goal in this study is to isolate its syntactic and semantic properties so as… read more