Polysynthetic Tendencies in Modern Greek

• Main Author: Charitonidis, Chariton
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English; Spanish; French; Italian
• Published: Bern Open Publishing 2008
• Subjects: Computational linguistics. Natural language processing; P98-98.5; Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar; P101-410; Will Point; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/6c5927ad2a1042f384cf9ae9ff136f55

The aim of this paper is to provide a more accurate typological classification of Modern Greek. The verb in MG shows many polysynthetic traits, such as noun and adverb incorporation into the verbal complex, a large inventory of bound morphemes, pronominal marking of objects, many potential slots bef...