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Introduction: Birmingham Colloquium on Modern Greek Linguistics The three papers that follow were presented at a Colloquium on Modern Greek Linguistics held at the University of Birmingham on 6 June 1992. In organizing the event, the Center for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies wished to dedicate to students of Modern Greek a day that would provide a forum for meeting, exchanging ideas, getting feedback from established researchers, and presenting a wide range of work in linguistics with emphasis on new insights into problems of the Greek language. The objective was to give a profile of current research—with all its possible inadequacies. Emphasizing the heterogeneity of branches of investigation, the colloquium focused on less wellresearched areas of Greek such as the prosodie and cognitive aspects of speech production, the textual and pragmatic parameters of discourse, the construction mechanisms and cohesion devices in narrative and non-narrative texts, along with the metaphorical uses of language. In the papers published here, Dionysis Goutsos addresses the issue of discourse explanations of Modern Greek word order by focusing on conditions governing the use of adjuncts in Greek texts. Villy Rouchota examines the semantics and pragmatics of no-main clauses in the light of Relevance Theory. Finally, Alexandra Georgakopoulou broadens the discussion by treating the situational and cultural constraints on formal devices in Modern Greek oral storytelling. The high quality of both the presentations and die ensuing discussion testifies to the vigor of Greek linguistics. Since the research interests of these young scholars involve new approaches to the analysis of the Greek language, we see the Birmingham Colloquium as a prelude to exciting prospects in the field. DiMITRIS TZiOVAS (convener) dionysis goutsos (organizer) ...

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