Modern Greek And American English In Contact (janua Linguarum. Series Practica)

additional research grant for unusual dissertation expenses was received from Indiana University through the office of J. W. Ashton, vice-president and graduate dean. To all of these, I am deeply grateful. For the knowledge of standard Greek which has been so useful in this present investigation, I am especially indebted to Kostas Kazazis and Miss Irene Philippaki. My wife and I also benefitted greatly from the friendship and sociolinguistic guidance of Mrs. Aphrodite Philippaki and Mr. and Mrs. Athanasios Katranides in Athens, Greece. In Bloomington, Mr. and Mrs. Basil Kafiris have given freely of their time and advice. Aristotle and Margaret Katranides offered many helpful suggestions at every stage of the study. Miss Maria Marini helped me check the page proofs. Philip Costas of Bloomington first introduced me to members of the Chicago Greek community. Demetrius Georgacas offered valuable practical advice concerning approach and methodology. Kostis Argoe, Xenophon Payne, and Constantine Michalakis, all of Chicago, helped me to secure Greek-American mailing lists and to locate eligible families who were willing to cooperate in this study. Aris Angelopoulos, editor of the Greek Star -Greek Press in Chicago, gave permission to reproduce the four front pages included in Appendix A. I am deeply indebted to these and many other helpful individuals for their invaluable assistance. I only hope that each person who assisted in any way will find his interest and efforts justified in the pages that follow.

In this study, the author describes the linguistic expression of space in Caac, an endangered and under-documented Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia, from both a descriptive and theoretical perspective. Part I provides a concise description of Caac grammar, presenting a first formal portrait of this language to the reader. Part II describes the formal and semantic features of the linguistic resources available in Caac to encode spatial relationships. Part III presents the theoretical framework based on and exploring further the vector analysis developed by Bohnemeyer (2012) and Bohnemeyer & O'Meara (2012).

In particular, the author proposes an additional sub-category of vectors (Head-unspecified Vectors) which accounts for the uses of centrifugal forms in Caac. The resulting framework provides a systematic account of expressions of orientation as well as location and motion, and to combine the Frames of Reference typology (Pederson et al. 1998; Levinson, 1996, 2003; Bohnemeyer & Levinson, not dated) with an analysis of deictic expressions within a single framework. Special attention, moreover, is given to the use of Caac absolute and deictic directionals in spatial constructions involving Fictive Motion. The analysis of Caac data leads us to introduce an additional category of Fictive Motion beyond those previously recognised in the literature, labelled here "Anticipated Paths", which in turn shed new light on the nature of vectors and the relationship between location, motion and orientation.

Intro ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES 0. INTRODUCTION 1. THE SOCIO-CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF THE MODERN-GREEK/AMERICAN-ENGLISH CONTACT 2. THE MODERN-GREEK/AMERICAN-ENGLISH CONTACT ON THE PHONOLOGICAL LEVEL OF GREEK 3. THE MODERN-GREEK/AMERICAN-ENGLISH CONTACT ON THE MORPHO-SYNTACTIC LEVEL OF GREEK 5. FINAL REMARKS BIBLIOGRAPHY NAME INDEX.