Pseudo-coordinate constructions with pijeno ‘go’ in Greek: A feature-based account

Gerasimos Georgopoulos
University of Vienna

Abstract. The paper discusses verbal pseudo-coordinate constructions in Greek (GPCs) which involve the motion verb pijeno ‘go’ as the initial verb. In contrast to similar constructions in other languages, GPCs seem to resemble a biclausal syntactic structure with respect to the distribution of overt inflectional material. In this paper, I argue based on a series of syntactic and semantic tests that: (i) GPCs are analyzed as instances of syntactic subordination (ii) GPCs are mapped into a monoclausal syntactic structure. Finally, I propose a feature-based analysis within the framework of Distributed Morphology in order to account for the morphological idiosyncrasies of these constructions.

Keywords: pseudo-coordination, motion verbs, Distributed Morphology, feature valuation, monoclausality, Greek

For citation: Georgopoulos G. Pseudo-coordinate constructions with pijeno ‘go’ in Greek: A feature-based account. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2021. Vol. 4, iss. 1. Pp. 30–52.