Valence alternations in Modern Greek

An MRS analysis

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide a semantic account of valence alternations in Modern Greek of the following general form:

            (1) NP_k V NP_i [P NP_j] —> NP_k V NP_j [P NP_i]

In other words, the valence alternations in Modern Greek we focus on in this paper are the ones involving direct internal arguments (i.e., objects) and indirect prepositional complements. Such alternation patterns in Modern Greek characterize mainly the behaviour of verbal predicates which participate in the so-called Locative Alternation phenomena.