[b-greek] RE: emphatic expressions [to Larsen]

From: Moon-Ryul Jung (moon@saint.soongsil.ac.kr)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 10:12:47 EST


Dear Iver,
many thanks for your useful tutorial on emphasis in Greek.

You wrote:
I don't find the usual (in discourse theory) dichotomistic distinction
between
focus and comment useful for Greek discourse. Rather, I find it useful to
talk
about three different kinds of emphasis:
1) Positional (and relative) emphasis
2) Lexical emphasis
3) Redundancy emphasis


The notion of focus and comment is independent of syntax.
Different languages implement the notion of focus and comment
differently. So, I do not understand your statement above.

Also, is there any evidence that the basic word order in GREEK
is VSO?

Moon
Moon-Ryul Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea
  

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