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On the Synchrony and Diachrony of Modern Greek NA*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Brian D. Joseph
Brian D. Joseph*
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The Ohio State University
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The Modern Greek particle ná has two main uses, as a subordinating particle and as a deictic particle. In this first use, it occurs with verbs in a variety of complement structures, as in (1), as well as with some apparent main-clause verbs, as in (2), that have special (i.e. non-declarative) illocutionary force, and may be derivable from underlying abstract complement structures:

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Research Article
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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 7 , 1981 , pp. 139 - 154
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1981

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