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1 Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 20 th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (April 1-3, 2011) / Edited by: Nikolaos Lavidas, Thomaï Alexiou & Areti-Maria Sougari. Published by Versita, Versita Ltd, 78 York Street, London W1H 1DP, Great Britain. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 license, which means that the text may be used for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Copyright 2013 Selection and editorial matter: Nikolaos Lavidas, ThomaÏ Alexiou, Areti-Maria Sougari; individual contributors, their contributions. ISBN (paperback): ISBN (hardcover): ISBN (for electronic copy): Managing Editor: Anna Borowska Language Editor: Edgar Joycey Cover illustration: Istockphoto.com/skvoor

2 Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics contains 80 papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics by prominent and young researchers, representing a large variety of topics, dealing with virtually all domains and frameworks of modern Linguistics. These papers were originally presented at the 20 th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in April The first volume is organized into two parts: Invited Papers; Selected Conference Papers: Phonology - Phonetics, Syntax - Morphology - Semantics.

3 Contents Foreword...9 Reviewers Part I Invited Papers Joseph Emonds Q: Natural Language s only Functional Head...19 Geoffrey Leech Growth and Decline: How Grammar has Been Changing in Recent English...47 Sophia Marmaridou Towards a Constructional Account of Indefinite Uses of Proper Names in Modern Greek...67 Amalia Moser Aspect and Aktionsart: A Study on the Nature of Grammatical Categories...99 Nicos C. Sifakis Asking the Right Questions in New School EFL Curriculum Design Part II Selected Conference Papers Section 1: Phonology - Phonetics Evia Kainada and Angelos Lengeris The Acquisition of English Intonation by Native Greek Speakers...141

4 Katerina Nicolaidis and Mary Baltazani The Greek Rhotic in /rc/ Sequences: An Acoustic and Electropalatographic Study Nina Topintzi and Mary Baltazani Where the Glide Meets the Palatals Eleni Tsiartsioni The Production of English Aspirated Stops in Foreign Language Acquisition Section 2: Syntax - Morphology - Semantics Rusudan Asatiani The Proto-Kartvelian and Proto-Indo-European Common Typological Feature: An Active Alignment (?) Ifigeneia Athanasiadou and Martha Lampropoulou A Conceptual Metonymy Account of Count and Non-Count Nouns: A Study of Modern Greek Nouns from the Domains of Eating and Drinking Maria Chondrogianni Basic Illocutions of the Modern Greek Subjunctive Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou Pride Concepts Konstantinos Kakarikos Case Attraction in Free Relative Clauses of Ancient Greek: A Study of the Syntax Morphology Interface Φρύνη Κακογιάννη Ντοά Τα διαθεσιακά επιρρήματα: Επιμέρους υποκατηγορία προτασιακών επιρρημάτων της Νέας Ελληνικής Haritini Kallergi The Role of Repetition in the Rise of Concessivity Γεωργία Κατσούδα Τα ρήματα σε -άμαι της Νεοελληνικής Κοινής

5 Axiotis Kechagias The Syntax-IS Interface: On the Functional Discrepancies between Clitic Left Dislocation and Bare Left Dislocation in Modern Greek Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga Distributivity and Genericity in Greek: The Case of kathe with the Definite Article Elisabeth Mela-Athanasopoulou Adjectival Participles Bearing on Unaccusativity Identification. Evidence from Modern Greek Masaki Ohno Stranded Quantifiers, Reconstruction and QR Isabel Oltra-Massuet and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez On Scalar Predicative PPs in Spanish Theofanis Papoutsis Measuring the Productivity of Noun-Deriving Suffixes Across Languages: Greek -tita vs. English -ness Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers Result Clauses in Modern Greek and Spanish: A Contrastive Study Juan Romeu A vs. en in Spanish Locatives Anna Roussou, Christos Vlachos and Dimitris Papazachariou In Situ, Ex Situ and (Non) Echo Questions Marietta Sionti, Leonardo Claudino, Yiannis Aloimonos, Carolyn P. Rose and Stella Markantonatou Semantic Clusters Combined with Kinematics: The Case of English and Modern Greek Motion Verbs Ekaterina Tarpomanova Dativus Ethicus in the Balkan Languages...511

6 Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 20 th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (April 1-3, 2011) / Edited by: Nikolaos Lavidas, Thomaï Alexiou & Areti-Maria Sougari. Published by Versita, Versita Ltd, 78 York Street, London W1H 1DP, Great Britain. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 license, which means that the text may be used for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Copyright 2013 Selection and editorial matter: Nikolaos Lavidas, ThomaÏ Alexiou, Areti-Maria Sougari; individual contributors, their contributions. ISBN (paperback): ISBN (hardcover): ISBN (for electronic copy): Managing Editor: Anna Borowska Language Editor: Edgar Joycey Cover illustration: Istockphoto.com/skvoor

7 Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics contains 80 papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics by prominent and young researchers, representing a large variety of topics, dealing with virtually all domains and frameworks of modern Linguistics. These papers were originally presented at the 20 th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in April The second volume is organized into three main sections: Discourse Analysis Gender Lexicography; Language Acquisition; Language Disorders.

8 Contents Part II Selected Conference Papers Section 3: Discourse Analysis - Gender - Lexicography Maria Christodoulidou The Meaning of Discourse Markers in Classroom Interaction...11 Angeliki Efthymiou, Zoe Gavriilidou and Eleni Papadopoulou Labeling of Derogatory Words in Modern Greek Dictionaries...27 Zoe Gavriilidou Users Abilities and Performance in Dictionary Look Up...41 Μαριάνθη Μακρή-Τσιλιπάκου Σεξουαλικός προσανατολισμός και γλώσσα...53 Δημήτρης Ντανόπουλος Αναλύοντας τις διαδρομές των κειμένων: Εθνογραφική μελέτη παραγωγής ειδήσεων σε μια τοπική εφημερίδα...69 Andreas Papapavlou and Melanie Satraki Dialect and Foreign Language Features in Greek-Cypriot Advertising: Investigating Factors Influencing Recipients Attitudes...85 Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou and Angeliki Alvanoudi Grammatical Gender and Cognition...109

9 Angelina Sophiadi The Song Remains the Same or Not? A Pragmatic Approach to the Lyrics of Rock Music Alexandros Tantos Verbs and Events in Discourse: A Synergy Efthymia Tsaroucha Do We Always Speak of What We Mean? (Non)Referring Expressions in Discourse Section 4: Language Acquisition Eleni Agathopoulou Automatically Arises the Question Whether : A Corpus Study of Postverbal Subjects in L2 English Fotini Anastassiou and Georgia Andreou Multilingualism in Greece: A Study of Speech Production of Trilingual Children Evangelia K. Asproudi Non-Target Long-Distance Wh-Questions: Crosslinguistic Typological Distinctions in Early L1 Production Styliani S. Kalligiannaki and Marina Tzakosta Common Characteristics in Compound Formation: Evidence from Bilingual Acquisition and L2 Language Learning Maria Kaltsa The Production of Aspect by L1 Learners of Greek Νικόλαος Καρατσιώλης και Πηνελόπη Καμπάκη-Βουγιουκλή Η ασαφής περιοχή της επίγνωσης της διαγλωσσικής παρεμβολής μεταξύ ιταλικής και ισπανικής από Έλληνες Sviatlana Karpava and Kleanthes K. Grohmann Greek Embedded Aspect in Child and Adult L2/L3 Acquisition Maria Kotroni The Acquisition of Motion Verbs in Greek: Evidence from Comprehension...289

10 Monique Monville-Burston and Maria Kounouni Advanced Learner Competence and Relative Clauses in Oral Narratives Theoni Neokleous and Teresa Parodi Clitic Placement in Early Grammars: The Case of Cypriot Greek Elena Papadopoulou and Natalia Pavlou Specificities of Syntactic Movement in Early Speech Alexandra Prentza Pronominal Subjects in English L2 Acquisition and in L1 Greek: Issues of Interpretation, Use and L1 Transfer Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, Maria Papakonstantinou and Ageliki Nicolopoulou Linguistic Structure and Narrative Quality in Child L1 Production Section 5: Language Disorders Maria Kambanaros Modality-Specific Noun Verb Dissociations in L1 but No Effect in L2: Evidence from Bilingual Aphasia Maria Kambanaros, Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Eleni Theodorou and Michalis Michaelides Can Vocabulary Size Predict Narrative Abilities in Children with SLI? Michaela Nerantzini, Despina Papadopoulou and Spyridoula Varlokosta Testing the Relativized Minimality Approach. Evidence from Wh-Question Production and Comprehension in Greek Aphasia Eleni Peristeri and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli Linguistic Processing and Executive Control: Evidence for Inhibition in Broca s Aphasia...455

11 Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 20 th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (April 1-3, 2011) / Edited by: Nikolaos Lavidas, Thomaï Alexiou & Areti-Maria Sougari. Published by Versita, Versita Ltd, 78 York Street, London W1H 1DP, Great Britain. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 license, which means that the text may be used for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Copyright 2013 Selection and editorial matter: Nikolaos Lavidas, ThomaÏ Alexiou, Areti-Maria Sougari; individual contributors, their contributions. ISBN (paperback): ISBN (hardcover): ISBN (for electronic copy): Managing Editor: Anna Borowska Language Editor: Edgar Joycey Cover illustration: Istockphoto.com/skvoor

12 Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics contains 80 papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics by prominent and young researchers, representing a large variety of topics, dealing with virtually all domains and frameworks of modern Linguistics. These papers were originally presented at the 20 th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in April The third volume includes the section Language Teaching/ Learning Education.

13 Contents Part II Selected Conference Papers Section 6: Language Learning/Teaching - Education Alexandra Anastasiadou The Impact of the Application of a Process Writing Component on the Students Writing Output in English as a Foreign Language...11 Alejandro García Aragón An Etymo-Cognitive Approach to Modern Greek Vocabulary Learning...33 Βασιλική Γιαννακού Η λαϊκή, η ταβέρνα, τα Χριστούγεννα και ο Σεφέρης ή η θεματολογία των κειμένων στα εγχειρίδια διδασκαλίας της Νέας Ελληνικής ως ξένης γλώσσας...51 Carol J. Everhard Is Autonomy in Language Learning Attainable through Assessment?...77 Athina Geladari and Konstantinos Mastrothanasis The Employment of Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies in Bilingual Pupils Creative Writing...97 Konstantina Iliopoulou and Areti-Maria Sougari Motivation-Related Issues to Learn Different Languages in an Intercultural School Μαρία Καρακύργιου, Βικτωρία Παναγιωτίδου και Νιόβη Αντωνοπούλου Τα νέα επίπεδα και η νέα δομή του πιστοποιητικού ελληνομάθειας του Κέντρου Ελληνικής Γλώσσας

14 Eirene C. Katsarou Grasping the Nettle of L2 Idiomaticity Puzzle: The Case of Idiom Identification and Comprehension during L2 Reading by Greek Learners of English Άννα Κοκκινίδου, Βασιλική Μάρκου, Θωμαή Ρουσουλιώτη και Νιόβη Αντωνοπούλου Η συμβολή του Κοινού Ευρωπαϊκού Πλαισίου Αναφοράς για τις Γλώσσες στη διδασκαλία και στην αξιολόγηση Stergiani Kostopoulou Analysing the Lexical Demands of Subject Textbooks Used in Irish Post-Primary Education to Facilitate Immigrant Students Curriculum Access Maria Kotsiomyti Teacher Observation and Greek State Teachers of English: Current Practices and Suggestions for Improvement Marina Mattheoudakis, Thomai Alexiou and Chryssa Laskaridou To CLIL or Not to CLIL? The Case of the 3rd Experimental Primary School in Evosmos Elena Meletiadou and Dina Tsagari An Exploration of the Reliability and Validity of Peer Assessment of Writing in Secondary Education Evangelia Michail Raising Pragmatic Awareness through Teacher Illocutionary Acts Σπυριδούλα Μπέλλα Καθάρισε αμέσως την κουζίνα παρακαλώ!: Αιτήματα μαθητών της Ελληνικής ως ξένης γλώσσας Ελισσάβετ Νουχουτίδου Δείκτες εισαγωγής συμπληρωματικών προτάσεων στη Νέα Ελληνική ως Γ2: Πειραματική προσέγγιση με ρωσόφωνους μαθητές Liliana Piasecka The Effects of Working on Multi-Word Expressions on the Development of Lexical Competence: A Case of 25 Students Enrolled in One Course Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel Proximal Predictors of L2 Willingness to Communicate in Polish Adolescents...315

15 Evangelia V. Soulioti Implementing CLIL in a Tertiary Setting: Research on Learners Attitudes and Perceptions Maria Stathopoulou The Linguistic Characteristics of KPG Written Mediation Tasks across Proficiency Levels Δημήτριος Τζιμώκας και Μαρίνα Ματθαιουδάκη Δείκτες αναγνωσιμότητας: Ζητήματα εφαρμογής και αξιοπιστίας Dina Tsagari Contact Sessions in Distance Education: Students Perspective Athina Vrettou Language Learning Strategy Use by Elementary School Students of English in Greece George J. Xydopoulos, Anastasios Tsangalidis and Athena Prountzou Linguistics Textbooks in Greek: Publication Practices in the Last Three Decades Thomas Zapounidis Breadth of Vocabulary, and Frequency and Recycling of Vocabulary Items in Primary Schools English Course Books...455