Gegenstand dieser Arbeit sind diejenigen Bewegungsverben im Altgriechischen, die zum Ausdruck einer allgemeinen Fortbewegung angewendet werden. Diese Verben können innerhalb verschiedener Kontexte durch come und go glossiert werden und weisen in vielen Sprachen raumbezogene deiktische Anwendungen auf. Die Analyse erstreckt sich auf zwei Hauptcorpora verschiedener Zeitalter, die Komödie des Aristophanes (5. Jh. vor Chr.) und das Neue Testament (1. Jh. nach Chr.). Um diachrone Veränderungen besser zu illustrieren, sind darüber hinaus quantitative und ggf. qualitative Daten bzw. Beispiele aus anderen früheren und späteren Autoren dargestellt und berücksichtigt worden. Die Arbeit geht von der vorhandenen Typologie über deiktische Bewegungsverben in gesprochenen Sprachen aus und identifiziert diejenigen Kriterien und Kontexte, die auch für die Analyse einer toten Sprache zutreffen. Im Unterschied zu der vorhandenen Typologie und der in der Forschung verbreiteten Herangehensweise bzgl. dieser Verbgruppe, die sich auf die räumliche Domäne der Deixis beschränkt, wird in die vorliegende Arbeit auch die Analyse der zeitlichen Dimension der vom Verb ausgedrückten Fortbewegung integriert. Ausgehend von der hier durchgeführten Analyse ist festzustellen, dass die diachronen Veränderungen in den Anwendungskriterien der Bewegungsverben im Altgriechischen auf das Verhältnis zwischen denjenigen Sprachmitteln zurückzuführen sind, die in diesem Verbsystem um den Ausdruck bzw. Präzisierung der zeitlichen Dimension der Handlung konkurrieren, d.h. Aspekt und Aktionsart. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass die Integration der Domänen Raum und Zeit und die Annahme einer diachronen Perspektive die bisherige Typologie sinnbringend ergänzen und in der Forschung zu anderen Sprachen ebenfalls rezipiert werden sollten. / In this work are regarded those motion verbs in Ancient Greek that are used to express a general motion. Those verbs can be glossified by 'come' and 'go', and within certain contexts, deictic uses of these verbs are evident in many languages. The analysis includes two main corpora of different epochs, the comedy of Aristophanes (5th century B.C.) and the New Testament (1st century A.C.). For a better illustration of diachronic changes, quantitative and partially also qualitative data about further, earlier or later authors are described and regarded. Basing on the existing typology for deictic motion verbs in spoken languages, this study identifies those criteria and contexts that can be applied onto a dead language as well. As a difference to the existing typology and to the prevalent approach on these verbs – which is limited to the spatial dimension of deixis –, in this study also the temporal dimension of the verbally expressed motion is integrated. Based on the analysis presented here, it is to be noted that the diachronic changes in the criteria for the application of motion verbs in Ancient Greek can be traced back to the relation of the verbal categories that concur for the expression or precising of the plot's temporal dimension. i.e. the aspect and the Aktionsart. The results of this work give evidence, that the integration of the domains 'space' and 'time' gives reason for the use of these verbs in ancient Greek within a diachronic perspective, and show that this methodological approach is worth to be applied to the analysis of other languages.

Submitted by Fabricia Fialho Reginato (fabriciar) on 2015-07-04T00:45:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 SilviaFoschiera.pdf: 3755161 bytes, checksum: 0f631548f2054c557658d1a50094a5ac (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-04T00:45:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SilviaFoschiera.pdf: 3755161 bytes, checksum: 0f631548f2054c557658d1a50094a5ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-07-31 / Nenhuma / O objetivo principal desta investigação é verificar em que aspectos a Semântica de Frames (FILLMORE, 1982; 1985) e o modelo denominado Roda das Emoções (SCHERER, 2005) contribuem na relação entre a linguagem e o fenômeno da emoção, considerando os idiomas português e espanhol. A Semântica de Frames, perspectiva teórica vinculada à Linguística Cognitiva, fundamenta a análise semântica e sintática por meio de um estudo exploratório do maquinário da FrameNet (FILLMORE et al., 2003). Com base nesse arcabouço teórico, realizamos um levantamento dos frames e elementos de frame de verbos e adjetivos que descrevem a emoção, associando categorias semânticas e sintáticas. Verificamos, também, a possibilidade de mapear o holder e o tópico de opinião considerando o corpus de sentenças do Twitter. A segunda perspectiva teórica está relacionada à Psicologia Cognitiva, por meio do modelo denominado Roda das Emoções. Considerando os traços semânticos sugeridos nessa ferramenta, observa-se o quanto, levando em conta aplicações computacionais, ela vem enriquecer um estudo de Análise de Sentimento. A Roda das Emoções serve para identificar a polaridade das opiniões constantes por meio dos adjetivos nas sentenças da amostra. Os resultados evidenciam que as duas perspectivas se revelam produtivas para aplicações computacionais em Análise de Sentimento. / The main objective of this research is to ascertain which aspects of Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1982; 1985) and the model called Wheel of Emotions (Scherer, 2005) contribute to the relationship between language and the phenomenon of emotion, in regards to the Portuguese and Spanish languages. Frame Semantics -a theoretical construct linked to cognitive linguistics- underlies the syntactic and semantic analysis by means of an exploratory study of the FrameNet database (Fillmore et al., 2003). Based on this theoretical framework, we conducted a survey of the frames and frame elements that describe emotions, attaching semantic and syntactic categories to them. We also contemplated the possibility of mapping the holder and the subject of opinion in the corpus of sentences from Twitter. The second theoretical perspective is related to cognitive psychology through the Wheel of Emotions. Considering the semantic aspects offered by this tool, it is observed to what extent –including computer applications- it enriches the study of Sentiment Analysis. The Wheel of Emotions helps to identify the polarity of opinions contained in the sample sentences. The results show that the two perspectives prove productive for computer applications in Sentiment Analysis.

[pt] Na descrição do português do Brasil, as expressões adverbiais locativas de origem e de meta, exigidas pela valência de verbos de movimento tetravalentes, apresentam peculiaridades quanto à realização nos enunciados. Neste trabalho, a análise realizada é de caráter qualitativo, com base nas propostas da gramática de valências. Examina a possibilidade de realização de cada argumento citado e as motivações, os efeitos gerados na sua relação com os verbos de que dependem. Os locativos que indicam meta e que complementam o quarto espaço dos verbos de movimento/direção possuem freqüência maior de realização, quando os verbos inferem transferência de lugar. Este trabalho considera o valor das preposições que acompanham os complementos e os advérbios que indicam o espaço dêitico. / [en] In the description of the Brazilian Portuguese, the valency of verbs of movement opens four spaces which are fullfilled by adverbial expressions considered locatives of origen and goal. These expressions present peculiarities regarding the realization in utterances. Based on the proposals of the valency grammar, an analysis of qualitative aspect was provided aiming to examine the possibility of realization of each argument mentioned and the motivations and results generated in their relationship with the verbs on which they depend. The locatives that indicate goal and complement the fourth space of the verbs of movement / direction occur more often when these verbs infer location transferance. This dissertation considers the value of prepositions that accompany the complements and the adverbs that indicate the deitic space.

The subject matter of this diploma thesis is linguistic modality in German with focus on certain problems in translating modal verbs structures from German to Czech. In the theoretical part, the concept of modality as well as the differentiation of modal field is elucidated. Besides the usually used classification of subjective and objective modality, a more precise structure is applied, which is that of epistemic and non-epistemic modality. In addition, in the field of non-epistemic modality, two other sub-types are distinguished according to whether a speaker s evaluation is present or not. The practical part methodologically relies on concrete data such as modal verbs used with perfect infinitive or modal verbs in past perfect tense (Plusquamperfekt) and their translations from German to Czech. Based on selected examples, the aim of this thesis is to emphasize the main differences between Czech and German modality and to underline their essential significance to the translation accuracy.

Este trabalho trata do uso dos verbos modais em manuais de aviação em inglês sob uma perspectiva da lingüística de corpus. O objetivo é gerar subsídios que permitam elaborar materiais didáticos que reflitam as estruturas lingüísticas como aparecem em seu contexto de uso. Parte-se da hipótese de que o uso dos verbos modais no corpus de estudo apresenta peculiaridades com relação à freqüência de ocorrência, estrutura sintática e sentidos. O corpus de estudo é composto de três manuais técnicos da aeronave BOEING 737, sendo dois manuais de operações destinados a pilotos e um manual de manutenção destinado a mecânicos. A pesquisa é realizada em três etapas. Na primeira etapa é realizado um contraste entre o corpus de estudo, um corpus de referência de inglês geral e um corpus de contraste composto de manuais de sistemas operacionais para computadores pessoais. Esse contraste visa a verificar as diferenças de ocorrências entre os verbos modais e as suas estruturas sintáticas. Depois, são realizadas comparações entre os três manuais que compõem o corpus de estudo também com relação às freqüências dos modais e suas estruturas sintáticas. Na terceira etapa são verificadas as colocações principais de cada VM no manual de manutenção e em um dos manuais de operações. Outro objetivo desta investigação é contrastar o manual de manutenção e um livro didático que tem por objetivo ensinar inglês técnico para mecânicos de aeronaves. Nesse sentido, é feita uma análise do livro no que tange os verbos modais e sugeridas algumas modificações. O trabalho reúne referenciais teóricos da Lingüística de Corpus, Lingüística das Linguagens Especializadas e Verbos Modais. Os resultados do trabalho mostram que há diferenças entre a presença dos modais nos três corpora pesquisados e principalmente entre os três manuais que compõe o corpus de estudo. O estudo mostra a importância de realizar pesquisas baseadas em corpus para revelar as peculiaridades de uma linguagem especializada e assim fornecer subsídios para a elaboração de material didático com propósitos específicos mais de acordo com as necessidades do público alvo. / This thesis is about the use of modal verbs in aviation manuals in the light of corpus linguistics. The goal is to gather subsides to enable the creation of classroom material which presents the linguistic structures as they appear in their natural context. The hypothesis is that the use of modal verbs in the corpus has peculiarities in terms of frequency, syntactic patterns, and meanings. The aviation corpus is composed of three manuals from the BOEING 737 aircraft: two operations manuals directed to pilots and one maintenance manual directed to mechanics. The research has been carried out in three stages. In the first stage, the aviation corpus is contrasted to a reference corpus and another specialized corpus composed of personal computer operational systems. Such contrast aims at verifying the differences in the number of modal tokens and their syntactic patterns. In the second stage, the three manuals that make up the aviation corpus are compared in terms of modal frequencies and their syntactic patterns. In the third stage, the main collocations of each modal are checked. This thesis also aims at contrasting the maintenance manual and a course book designed to teach aviation English to mechanics. Thus, an analysis of the modal verbs in the course book is carried out and changes to the book are suggested. This thesis brings together theoretical assumptions from Corpus Linguistics, the Linguistics of Specialized languages and Modal Verbs. The results point out that there are differences in the use of modal verbs in the three investigated corpora and mainly among the three manuals that compose the aviation corpus. This study shows the importance of corpus based research to reveal the peculiarities of a specialized language and, therefore, provide input to produce specific pedagogical material which better meets the needs of the target public.

Bien que typiques et incontournables de la langue anglaise, les phrasal verbs représentent cependant un véritable fléau pour les apprenants non-anglophones. Une étude quantitative s’appuyant sur la comparaison d’un corpus d’interlangue de l’anglais langue étrangère (International Corpus of Learner English, Version 2) et d’un corpus contrôle (Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays) met ainsi en lumière la sous-représentation des phrasal verbs dans les productions écrites d’étudiants non-anglophones. En second lieu, à partir d’une étude qualitative examinant l’usage des phrasal verbs dans les extraits de dissertations d’étudiants non-natifs, nous établissons une typologie des erreurs commises par les apprenants non-anglophones à l’égard des phrasal verbs. Une réflexion sur de nouvelles approches visant un meilleur apprentissage/enseignement des phrasal verbs est également proposée.Pour apporter des éléments de réponse à cette question, notre démarche consiste à observer la genèse de cette construction dans le langage de l’enfant anglophone. En effet, le rôle des constructions formées de plusieurs mots a notamment été mis en évidence dans les théories de l’acquisition de la langue maternelle (Goldberg, 1995 ; Tomasello, 2003). En outre, elles représentent une source de prédication riche et productive que les enfants de la plupart des communautés linguistiques acquièrent à un âge très précoce. Aucune étude dédiée à l’acquisition et l’usage des phrasal verbs chez le jeune enfant anglophone n’a cependant été réalisée à ce jour. Cette thèse se propose d’étudier l’émergence et le développement des constructions verbe-particule dans le langage de l’enfant en analysant les données longitudinales du discours oral spontané de deux enfants uniligues anglophones, Naima et Ella, suivies respectivement entre 0;11 et 3;10 et entre 1;00 et 4;00. Les transcriptions des corpus sont issues de la base de données CHILDES (MacWhinney, 2000a).Enfin, cette thèse s’intéresse également à l’acquisition et à l’usage du placement de la particule adverbiale au sein des verbes à particule transitifs directs dans le discours de l’enfant anglophone. En particulier, une analyse multifactorielle de plusieurs variables linguistiques sera conduite afin de voir si l’enfant reproduit le même schéma linguistique que l’adulte dans ses emplois des constructions verbe-particule transitives directes de type continu V-Prt-O et discontinu V-O-Prt. / Although typical and inevitable in the English language, phrasal verbs, however, represent a real scourge to non-English-speaking students. A quantitative study based on a comparison between an interlanguage corpus of English as a foreign language (International Corpus of Learner English, Version 2) and a control corpus (Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays) thus highlights the underrepresentation of phrasal verbs in non-English-speaking students’ written productions. Secondly, from a qualitative study examining the use of phrasal verbs in excerpts from non-native students’ essays, we draw up a typology of errors made by non-English-speaking learners with regard to phrasal verbs. A discussion on new approaches to a better learning/teaching of phrasal verbs is also proposed.To provide some answers to this question, our approach consists in observing the genesis of this construction in the English-speaking child’s language. Indeed, the role of multiword constructions has particularly been emphasized in theories of first language acquisition (Goldberg, 1995; Tomasello, 2003). Besides, they are a rich and productive source of predication that children from most of the language communities acquire at a very early age. Yet, no studies dedicated to the acquisition and usage of verb-particle constructions in young English-speaking children have been carried out so far. This thesis aims to study the emergence and development of verb-particle constructions in child language by analyzing longitudinal data from the spontaneous oral speech of two monolingual English-speaking children, Naima and Ella, respectively followed between ages 0;11 and 3;10 and between ages 1;00 and 4;00. The corpora transcripts come from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000a).Finally, this thesis also focuses on the acquisition and use of particle placement within direct transitive phrasal verbs in English-speaking children’s speech. In particular, a multifactorial analysis of several linguistic variables will be conducted to see if children reproduce the same linguistic pattern as adults in their productions of both types of direct transitive verb-particle constructions (i.e. continuous configuration V-Prt-O and split configuration V-O-Prt).

本研究，基於分辨非賓存現動詞及瞭解二語學習者如何讓習得此類動詞之需求，旨在分析一個高頻率之非賓格存現動詞 HAPPEN與其三個同義字(OCCUR，APPEAR，與EXIST)和中文同義字「發生」從語言使用者角度作比較。採用了母語語料庫 (英文採用英國國家語料庫 BNC；中文採用十億詞語料庫 GW 2.0)及學習者語料庫(含語言訓練與測驗中心學習者語料庫the LTTC，國際英語學習者語料庫the ICLE，及政治大學外語學習者語料庫the NCCU)作為第一部分的語料庫分析。此外，為了探索二語英文錯誤及母語中文遷移的關係，我們也進行了以語料庫為基礎的心理語言學實驗(兩個關於中英文HAPPEN句子結構的接受度判斷測驗)。 本研究結果發現，其一，就語料庫中的文法形式(Grammatical form)來分析HAPPEN、OCCUR、APPEAR與EXIST，英文母語語料庫中的高頻文法形式(例如：happened或happen)與學習者語料庫中有相同的現象。然而大部份的高頻文法形式都是二語學習者經常誤用之處，且容易與兩個常見非賓動詞錯誤—過度被動化錯誤(Overpassivization)和及物化錯誤(Transitivization)—共現(Collocated)。其二，從語料庫錯誤分析各種錯誤類型得知， HAPPEN與OCCUR較常出現過度被動化錯誤；APPEAR與 EXIST較常有及物化錯誤。此結果顯示每個非賓存現動詞可能會犯不同錯誤，也因此造成其錯誤的原因有所不同。其三，從分析心理語言實驗結果得知，我們發現母語中文文法句型(L1 Chinese grammatical patterns)，例如：「V-了」－「出現了」；抑或是「V+N」－「發生車禍」、「發生戰爭」、「存在缺失」，都影響了二語學習者對英文非賓動詞之文法形式的正確判定。由此揭示了母語中文大多都對二語英文非賓動詞習得有所干擾。 基於所得結果，我們提出「完成體」(Perfectivity)及「及物性」(Transitivity)之不同來探討中英文間存現動詞用法之異同，並試著解釋造成二語非賓動詞學習複雜化的原因。 此研究克服了過去文獻中比較非賓存現動詞之困難也透過語料庫結合心理實驗研究法提供對非賓動詞習得之解釋方法。這些發現可進一步作為詮釋非賓動詞的假說，並將其應用於語言教材設計或被視為未來跨語言分析研究之基石。 / Owing to the necessity to identify unaccusative existence/appearance verbs and realize how they are acquired by L2 learners, this present thesis aims to analyze a highly frequent English unaccusative verb HAPPEN and compare it with its three other synonyms (OCCUR, APPEAR, and EXIST), as well as its Chinese counterpart發生 fāshēn ‘happen.’ Native speaker corpora (the British National Corpus (BNC) for English and Chinese Gigaword 2 Corpus (GW 2.0) for the Chinese), and L2 learner corpora (the Language Training and Testing Learner Corpus (the LTTC), International Corpus of Learner English 2.0 (the ICLE), and the National Chengchi University Foreign Language Learner Corpus (the NCCU)) are utilized to analyze the unaccusative verbs in the first main section. In addition, in order to discover the relationship between L2 English errors and L1 Chinese transfer, psycholinguistic experiments (two acceptability judgments tasks with comparable Chinese and English HAPPEN sentence constructions) based on the corpora data were conducted in this thesis. The results in this thesis showed that, first, the highly frequent grammatical forms of unaccusative verbs (e.g., happened or happen) in the English native speaker corpus share some similarities with those of L2 learner corpora. However, these grammatical forms were usually misused by L2 learners and were frequently collocated with the two common unaccusative errors (overpassivization, e.g., *What is happened? and trasitivization, e.g., *I happen a car accident.). Second, as for the distributions of unaccusative error types, HAPPEN and OCCUR were found to mainly co-occur with overpassivization errors, whereas APPEAR and EXIST were found to mainly co-occur with transitivization errors. This indicates that each unaccusative verb may have different potential for L2 unaccusative errors, and therefore the causes of these errors with different verbs may vary. Third, from the analysis of psycholinguistic experiments, we discover that the L1 Chinese grammatical patterns, such as the V-le grammatical pattern (e.g., 出現了chūxiànle ‘appear-le’) and the V+N grammatical pattern (e.g., 發生車禍fāshēngchēhuò ‘The car accident happened’, 發生戰爭 fāshēngzhànzhēng ‘The war occurred’, and存在缺失 cúnzàiquēshī ‘The pitfalls existed’) may influence L2 learners’ correct judgment as to the grammatical forms of unaccusative verbs. This reveals that generally L1 Chinese might have some interference with L2 unaccusative acquisition. Based on the results, we proposed that the perfectivity and transitivity differences between English and Chinese unaccusative existence/appearance verbs could distinguish the uses among the English HAPPEN and the Chinese發生 fāshēn ‘happen’ with their synonyms. These differences could also provide a possible reason for the cause of the problematic L2 unaccusative acquisition. This thesis overcomes the difficulties of comparing unaccusative existence/appearance verbs in the previous studies and attempts to unravel the enigma of acquiring this verb type from the integrated corpus-based and empirical findings. These findings in turn serve as the suggested assumptions to interpret unaccusative verbs, which can be applied to the design of language teaching materials or can be viewed as the basis of cross-language analysis in the future studies.

This thesis is concerned with adult L1 attrition in the case of highly-educated long-term Polish immigrants in Sweden. The study sheds light on two classical issues pertaining to L1 attrition, namely what happens to a fully developed mature language system in an immigrant context, and why it happens. Specifically we aim to answer the following questions: (1) Are Polish speakers in Sweden different from comparable individuals in Poland with respect to (i) judgement and use of a number of Polish linguistic features (se keywords below), and (ii) hesitation phenomena, i.e. ability to be quick and easy and linguistic insecurity? (2) Is the variation in linguistic results dependent on how often and in what context the Polish language is used and/or which attitudes the individuals have towards it as well as how long they have been living in Sweden? One of the main contributions of the study regards methodology. The data is analysed in three steps: an initial focus on group comparisons shifts to the analysis of individual results in relation to the variation observed in the comparison group, and finally to a holistic view of the attrition effects or their absence. It is suggested that in studies on adult L1 attrition, where the effects are expected to be relatively cosmetic, the range of the linguistic behaviour in the comparison group as a reference point as well as a holistic perspective on individual results gives a more truthful picture of the attrition process. In addition the study shows that attrition effects are present in some individuals (60 %) to a different degree. The most common effect overall is linguistic insecurity followed by the overuse of 1st person pronouns as explicit subjects and to a lesser degree by the overuse of 3rd person pronouns. Surprisingly there is a scanty effect on the other hesitation phenomenon, i.e. the ability to be quick and easy. No or limited effects are observed in other structural areas which basically supports previous findings on L1 adult attrition. Finally, the presence versus absence of the attrition effect can not be straightforwardly related either to language use, attitudes or length of residence, with one exception being linguistic insecurity.

Le dictionnaire LVF (Les Verbes Français) de J. Dubois et F. Dubois-Charlier représente une des ressources lexicales les plus importantes dans la langue française qui est caractérisée par une description sémantique et syntaxique très pertinente. Le LVF a été mis disponible sous un format XML pour rendre l’accès aux informations plus commode pour les applications informatiques telles que les applications de traitement automatique de la langue française. Avec l’émergence du web sémantique et la diffusion rapide de ses technologies et standards tels que XML, RDF/RDFS et OWL, il serait intéressant de représenter LVF en un langage plus formalisé afin de mieux l’exploiter par les applications du traitement automatique de la langue ou du web sémantique. Nous en présentons dans ce mémoire une version ontologique OWL en détaillant le processus de transformation de la version XML à OWL et nous en démontrons son utilisation dans le domaine du traitement automatique de la langue avec une application d’annotation sémantique développée dans GATE. / The LVF dictionary (Les Verbes Français) by J. Dubois and F. Dubois-Charlier is one of the most important lexical resources in the French language, which is characterized by a highly relevant semantic and syntactic description. The LVF has been available in an XML format to make access to information more convenient for computer applications such as NLP applications for French language. With the emergence of the Semantic Web and the rapid diffusion of its technologies and standards such as XML, RDF/RDFS and OWL, it would be interesting to represent LVF in a more formalized format for a better and more sophisticated usage by natural language processing and semantic web applications. We present in this paper an OWL ontology version of LVF by demonstrating the mapping process between the data model elements of the XML version and OWL. We give account about its use in the field of natural language processing by presenting an application of semantic annotation developed in GATE.

Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι να δώσει μια ανάλυση των ρημάτων ψυχικού πάθους της Νέας Ελληνικής βασισμένη σε δύο σημαντικούς παράγοντες: α) την συντακτική πραγμάτωση των ορισμάτων του κατηγορήματος και β) την μορφολογία της φωνής του ρήματος. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, εξετάζω την κατηγορία ρημάτων ψυχικού πάθους που παρουσιάζει την εναλλαγή μεταξύ των δύο συντακτικών δομών Object Experiencer και Subject Experiencer με ταυτόχρονη εναλλαγή στην μορφολογία της φωνής του ρήματος μεταξύ της ενεργητικής και της μεσοπαθητικής. Το βασικό ερώτημα στο οποίο επιχειρώ να απαντήσω είναι εάν οι δομές Subject Experiencer με μεσοπαθητική μορφολογία στο ρήμα αποτελούν παθητικοποιημένες δομές των αντίστοιχων δομών Object Experiencer με ενεργητική μορφολογία στο ρήμα. Αρχικά, στο κεφάλαιο 1 συζητώ το πρόβλημα σύνδεσης των θεματικών ρόλων και των συντακτικών θέσεων που εμφανίζουν τα ρήματα ψυχικού πάθους γενικά, καθώς και τον τρόπο με τον οποίο τα ρήματα ψυχικού πάθους της Νέας Ελληνικής εκδηλώνουν αυτό το πρόβλημα. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό υποστηρίζω ότι ένας σημαντικός παράγοντας που πρέπει να μελετηθεί είναι η μορφολογία της φωνής του ρήματος. Έπειτα, στο κεφάλαιο 2 που αποτελεί το θεωρητικό πλαίσιο, παρουσιάζω α) τις σημαντικότερες συντακτικές αναλύσεις που έχουν προταθεί για την ερμηνεία της συμπεριφοράς των ρημάτων αυτών και, β) τις ιδιότητες και ερμηνείες της μεσοπαθητικής μορφολογίας της φωνής στην Νέα Ελληνική που αποτελεί σημαντικό παράγοντα για την μελέτη των ρημάτων αυτών. Στο κεφάλαιο 3 επεκτείνω την κατηγοριοποίηση που έχει προταθεί για τα ρήματα ψυχικού πάθους, με βάση την συντακτική προβολή των ορισμάτων του κατηγορήματος και την μορφολογία της φωνής στα ρήματα αυτά και συζητώ την συντακτική συμπεριφορά κάθε κατηγορίας. Στο κεφάλαιο 4 εξετάζω σε βάθος μια συγκεκριμένη κατηγορία ρημάτων ψυχικού πάθους της Νέας Ελληνικής η οποία παρουσιάζει την εξής συμπεριφορά: τα ρήματα αυτά μπορούν να εμφανίζουν την εναλλαγή μεταξύ Object Experiencer και Subject Experiencer συντακτικών δομών, η οποία συνοδεύεται από εναλλαγή στην ρηματική μορφολογία της φωνής. Αρχικά, ελέγχω την δυνατότητα συντακτικής παθητικοποίησης των Object Experiencer ρημάτων κι έπειτα, εξετάζω την ερμηνεία των δομών Subject Experiencer με ρήμα μεσοπαθητικής μορφολογίας. Καταλήγω στο συμπέρασμα ότι μια Subject Experiencer δομή με ρήμα μεσοπαθητικής μορφολογίας μπορεί να έχει α) την παθητική δομή και ερμηνεία, και σε αυτή την περίπτωση παράγεται από την αντίστοιχη Object Experiencer ενεργητική δομή, β) την μέση δομή και ερμηνεία, όταν το ποιητικό αίτιο παραλείπεται και, γ) την αυτοπαθή δομή και ερμηνεία όταν η προθετική φράση που εμφανίζεται σε αυτή δηλώνει την αιτία. Αυτό εξαρτάται από την θέση στην όποια παράγεται το μεσοπαθητικό μόρφημα στην βαθεία δομή, στην παρουσία η όχι προσαρτήματος και στο είδος του προσαρτήματος αυτού. Στο κεφάλαιο 5 κάνω μια ανασκόπηση όλης της εργασίας και συνοψίζω τα συμπεράσματα που προέκυψαν από την ανάλυση που έγινε στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο. / The purpose of the present study is to provide an analysis of the psych verbs in Modern Greek which is based on two significant factors: a) the syntactic realization of the arguments of the predicate and b) the voice morphology of the verb. More specifically, I am examining a particular category of the Greek psych verbs: the category that involves at the same time an alternation between two syntactic structures, the Object Experiencer and the Subject Experiencer structures and an alternation between the active and the mediopassive voice morphology. The basic question which I will try to answer is whether the Subject Experiencer structures with the mediopassive voice morphology on the verb are the passivized forms of the corresponding Object Experiencer structures with the active voice morphology on the verb. First of all, in the first chapter I am discussing the linking problem between thematic roles and syntactic positions that the psych verbs generally pose, as well as the way in which this problem is manifested by the Greek psych verbs in particular. In this context, I claim that a very important factor that has to be investigated is the voice morphology of the verb. Moreover, in chapter 2, that is the theoretical background of the present study, I am presenting a) the most important syntactic analyses that have been proposed for the explanation of the behavior of these verbs and b) the properties and interpretations of the mediopassive voice morphology of the verb in Modern Greek that is a very significant factor for the study of these verbs. In chapter 3 I am expanding the categorization of the psych verbs that has been proposed, on the basis of the syntactic projection of the arguments of the predicate and the voice morphology of these verbs and I am discussing the syntactic behavior of each category. In chapter 4 I am examining in deep a specific category of psych verbs in Modern Greek which presents the following behavior: these verbs can involve the alternation between the Object Experiencer and the Subject Experiencer syntactic structures, which is combined with an alternation in the voice morphology of the verb. To begin with, I am examining the possibility of syntactic passivization of Object Experiencer verbs and then, I am investigating the interpretation of Subject Experiencer structures with a verb that has the mediopassive morphology. The conclusion to which I am reaching is that a Subject Experiencer structure with a verb that has the mediopassive morphology can have a) the passive structure and interpretation, and in this case the structure is derived by the corresponding Object Experiencer active structure, b) the middle structure and interpretation, when the agent is omitted and, c) the reflexive structure and interpretation when the prepositional phrase that is present in it expresses the cause. The aforementioned depends on the position in which the mediopassive morpheme is derived in the Deep Structure, on the presence or not of an adjunct and on the nature of this adjunct. In chapter 5 I am summarizing the whole study and providing a synopsis of the main conclusions of the analysis that was depicted in the fourth chapter.