What is the ‘Future’ of Greek? Towards a Pragmatic Analysis

Chiou, Michael

dc.contributor.author	Chiou, Michael	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-12-03T07:35:19Z
dc.date.available	2015-12-03T07:35:19Z
dc.date.issued	2015-06-15	en
dc.identifier.issn	1731-7533	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/14925
dc.description.abstract	The paper investigates the problems related to futurity and modality in modern Greek. The discussion of Greek temporal future expressions is conducted with reference to relevant literature from the areas of English linguistics, cognitive studies and pragmatics. The focus is on the status of future-oriented expressions and the question whether they are primarily epistemic in nature, whether they are tense-based, or modality-based. It is argued that the future tense in Greek has a modal semantic base conveying epistemic modality and that the preferred future prospective reading is a pragmatic development of the semantic modal base. The author further suggests that the future reading is a kind of presumptive meaning which follows from the neo-Gricean Principle of Informativeness, known as the I-principle (Levinson 2000) being a generalised interpretation which does not depend on contextual information.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Research in Language;12	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.	en
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dc.subject	pragmatics	en
dc.subject	neo-Gricean pragmatics	en
dc.subject	modality	en
dc.subject	tense	en
dc.subject	Greek	en
dc.title	What is the ‘Future’ of Greek? Towards a Pragmatic Analysis	en
dc.page.number	355-375	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Athens Metropolitan College	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2083-4616
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	mchiou1234@gmail.com	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/rela-2015-0004	en

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