Themes in Greek linguistics II Ed. by Brian D. Joseph, Geoffrey C. Horrocks, and Irene Philippaki-Warburton. (review)

BOOK NOTICES 235 about what recent histoncal-comparative linguistics can offer. [Agustinus Gianto, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome.] Themes in Greek linguistics II. Ed. by Brian D. Joseph, Geoffrey C. Horrocks , and Irene Philippaki-Warburton . (Current issues in linguistic theory 159.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998. Pp. x, 335. This nice collection of papers is the result of the International Conference on Greek Linguistics and represents very active research in this area, as can be witnessed by the fact that this book is the second such volume. The papers are ordered according to linguistic fields; conespondingly I will summarize the papers in a paragraph reserved for each ofphonology , morphology, syntax/semantics, and diachrony. Stamatia Pagoni-Tetlow argues that 'Breaking up is (not) hard to do: The case of the Modern Greek ptlkt sequences' (3-21 ) within the framework of government phonology. At the core of the argument lies the proposal that an empty nucleus intervenes between pit and k in these structures which follows from the proposed syllabic structure for two contiguous onsets as in these instances. Within optimality theory, Anthi Revithiadou analyzes 'Lexical marking and dominance in Modern Greek' (23-48) where prosodie faithfulness plays a dominating as well as a dominated role (by prosodie form constraints) constituting lexical marking, here refened to as 'templatic '. (Morphological) 'dominance' denotes specific prosodie organization in the lexicon of prosodically prevalent elements; the proposal is that prosody projects the hierarchical relations between morphemes. Angela Ralli's 'On the morphological status of inflectional features: Evidence from Modern Greek' (51-74) shows that features participating in inflectional processes (i.e. reflecting grammatical properties ) are primarily morphological, thereby dispensing with an explicit partition of inflectional features into inherent/morphological vs. contextual. The role of language-specific vs. universal aspects of morphology is examined and put into perspective with recent views on the structure of the grammar. Imre Szigeti ponders 'On what happens if a "heart-conqueror" meets the Projection Principle' (75-97), arguing for a representational view of this principle, thus solving a number of problems relating it to NPs and compounds . A crucial ingredient of such a (re)-definition ofthe projection principle requires rethinking ofearlier approaches to the topic for which the notion 'minimal syntactic head' is introduced. 'On derived nomináis in Greek' (101-29) by Artemis Alexiadou and Melita Stavrou investigates their verbal-like properties without necessarily distinguishing between 'lexicalist' and 'syntactic' approaches to nominalizations. Complex event nomináis are separated from result nomináis on the basis of adjectival evidence (modal, temporal, and thematic ones for the latter only) and adverb placement . The latter suggests that a verbal domain is part of the structure of derived nomináis. In 'Wh- and direct object clitics revisited' (131-67), Anna Androulakis sets out to analyze w«-phrases that are coreferent with clitics lower in the intenogative structure as topics. She presents evidence against some version of D(iscourse)-linking being involved in these constructions, as exemplified by relative clauses and occunences of who, for example. This approach also compares standard CLLD-approaches, suggesting that such clitics are best seen as doubled clitics. Vassilios Spyropoulos considers 'The structure of small clauses in Modern Greek' (169-96) and suggests that these are structurally an agreement projection containing a predicative XP. Under this approach, predicative structures of the form [DP predicate] form a single constituent. In verb complement small clauses, X is the predicate (such as adjectives ), but the approach is extended to also capture adjunct small clauses. Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli argues for 'Individual and functional readings for focus, Wh- and negative operators: Evidence from Greek' (197-227) and proposes a tighter connection between the syntax and semantics of operators whose semantic nature has direct consequences for syntactic processes. The LF properties of the variety of constructions investigated here suggest two types of operators , an individual operator (focus) and a quantificational one (Wh, NPI). 'Clause structure and word order in Modern Greek' (229-54) is the topic of Dimitra Irini Tzanidaki's contribution in which she proposes a dependency-based account in terms of a 'flat' clause structure. This encompasses the morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties exhibited by the vast word order variation in Modern Greek. A set...