Timeline for What is the position of the subject in a Greek sentence, whose word order is VSO?
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| Jun 10, 2020 at 6:47 | comment | added | Tim Osborne | The traditional exocentric division S --> NP VP is long outdated. Modern approaches to syntax view either the finite verb as the head, in which case the head is νομίζεις, or an empty C (complementizer) as the head, the interrogative phrase Σε ποιόν φίλο then being in the specifier position of CP. | |
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| May 11, 2020 at 5:05 | answer | added | Tim Osborne | timeline score: -2 | |
| S May 10, 2020 at 19:46 | history | suggested | Tsutsu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
I corrected a typoo. She wrote "In the Greek sentence above, the subject is positioned to the left of the subject", she meant the "verb" is positioned not the "subject".
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| May 10, 2020 at 11:32 | answer | added | Tsutsu | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 10, 2020 at 10:35 | comment | added | Atamiri | The construction is exocentric so there should be no primed category. In the case of a phrase that includes a finite verb and (some of) its arguments S is commonly used, so here you’d have [S V NP] (though the verb is finite so in Greek it’s actually an I but this doesn’t affect the structure). | |
| May 10, 2020 at 9:57 | comment | added | V.Lydia | @Atamiri So, there is a V' that consists of the V(speaks) and the NP(the man) ? | |
| May 10, 2020 at 8:25 | comment | added | Atamiri | This is a non-configurational context so yes, the subject NP is a sister to the verb which are both (categorially) headed exocentrically. Note that in some languages there may be endocentric VSO structures but Greek doesn’t seem to be the case. | |
| May 10, 2020 at 8:00 | history | asked | V.Lydia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |