Description: Contents : General profile of verb derivation in Modern Greek - The causative/inchoative alternation - Five alternations for the Modern Greek verb - The causative/auto and the causative/control alternations - Opaque alternations - Morphological subclasses - Old and new derivation - Synchronically related and synchronically unrelated verbs - Exclusion criteria in the analysis of the -zo verbs - Conceptual structures in -zo derivation - Jackendoff's theory and minimal lexical decomposition - Extension of semantic fields into situational fields - Argument Fusion - Ambiguous conceptual structures - The theme as material or immaterial entity - Boundedness of the theme - The nature of semantic fields and their co-operation with conceptual structures - The Semantic Field's Inventory Hypothesis - Semantic fields as memory schemas and inference frames - Semantic fields and conceptual structures of the alternating -zo verbs - The -zo derivatives in the alternation classes - Semantic fields and conceptual structures as coherence factors - Split verbs - The senses of the verb kapnzo 'smoke' inside three scenes - Non-alternating verbs in -zo.

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