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Skordos, Dimitrios; Papafragou, Anna – Developmental Psychology, 2014
We report a study that explored the mechanisms used in hypothesizing meanings for novel motion predicates (verbs and prepositions) cross-linguistically. Motion stimuli were presented to English- and Greek-speaking adults and preschoolers accompanied by (a) a novel intransitive verb, (b) a novel transitive verb, (c) a novel transitive preposition,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Language Acquisition, Verbs
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Kambanaros, Maria – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
This study reports on the pattern of performance on spoken and written naming, spelling to dictation, and oral reading of single verbs and nouns in a bilingual speaker with aphasia in two first languages that differ in morphological complexity, orthographic transparency, and script: Greek (L1a) and English (L1b). The results reveal no verb/noun…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Aphasia, Bilingualism
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Papafragou, Anna; Selimis, Stathis – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
It is well known that languages differ in how they encode motion. Languages such as English use verbs that communicate the manner of motion (e.g., "slide", "skip"), while languages such as Greek regularly encode motion paths in verbs (e.g., "enter", "ascend"). Here we ask how such cross-linguistic encoding…
Descriptors: Verbs, Linguistics, Motion, English
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Efstathiadi, Lia – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2010
The paper investigates the semantic area of Epistemic Modality in Modern Greek, by means of a corpus-based research. A comparative, quantitative study was performed between written corpora (informal letter-writing) of non-native informants with various language backgrounds and Greek native speakers. A number of epistemic markers were selected for…
Descriptors: Semantics, Greek, Statistical Analysis, Letters (Correspondence)