Nikolaos Lavidas

Lavidas, Nikolaos 2018 Reorganising voice in the history of Greek: Split complexity and prescriptivism Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants, Dammel, Antje, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck (eds.), pp. 175–208 | Chapter

In this study, I analyse the reorganisation of voice variation in Greek in terms of an increase or decrease in complexity. I support the view of split complexity (E[xternal]- vs. I[nternal]-complexity), and I add the role of parametric routes to the whole picture of grammatical complexity in cases… read more

Lavidas, Nikolaos 2018 Chapter 2. Cognate noun constructions in Early Modern English: The case of Tyndale’s New Testament Explorations in English Historical Syntax, Cuyckens, Hubert, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe (eds.), pp. 51–76 | Chapter

This paper examines cognate noun constructions (CNCs) (e.g. smile a disarming smile) in Early Modern English, particularly in the first complete English translation of the Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew by William Tyndale. Tyndale’s translation is produced during a period of significant… read more

Kulikov, Leonid and Nikolaos Lavidas 2017 Between Passive and Middle: Evidence from Greek and beyond Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, Hellan, Lars, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 297–325 | Chapter

This paper focuses on verbs that can appear with two non-active voice morphologies in Greek. The starting point of the study is a comparison to the Vedic verbs that can also have two different, though formally related, non-active morphologies. In Vedic, these belong to the semantic… read more

Kulikov, Leonid and Nikolaos Lavidas 2015 Reconstructing passive and voice in Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development, Kulikov, Leonid and Nikolaos Lavidas (eds.), pp. 101–124 | Article

This article examines various aspects of the reconstruction of the passive in Proto-Indo-European (PIE), foremost on the basis of evidence from the Indo-Aryan (Early Vedic) and Greek branches. In Proto-Indo-European the fundamental distinction within the verbal system is between the active and… read more

Kulikov, Leonid and Nikolaos Lavidas 2013 Reconstructing passive and voice in Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development, Kulikov, Leonid and Nikolaos Lavidas (eds.), pp. 98–121 | Article

This article examines various aspects of the reconstruction of the passive in Proto-Indo-European (PIE), foremost on the basis of evidence from the Indo-Aryan (Early Vedic) and Greek branches. In Proto-Indo-European the fundamental distinction within the verbal system is between the active and… read more

Lavidas, Nikolaos 2013 Review of Heidinger (2010): French Anticausatives: A diachronic perspective Diachronica 30:2, pp. 287–294 | Review

Lavidas, Nikolaos 2013 Unaccusativity and the diachrony of null and cognate objects in Greek Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, Gelderen, Elly van, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 307–342 | Article

In the present paper, we show that in contrast to the diachronic instability that unergatives and transitives present with regard to null and cognate objects, alternating unaccusative verbs constantly appear to meet more restrictions in null and cognate object constructions than the other verbal… read more

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Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development

Edited by Leonid Kulikov and Nikolaos Lavidas

Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development

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