Re(de)fining Jespersen’s Cycle

This paper examines the historical development of the Greek negator system, from Homeric Greek to Standard Modern Greek, in connection to the Jespersen’s cycle phenomenon (Jespersen 1917, since Dahl 1979). Greek maintains a contrast between two negators, NEG1 and NEG2, i

Signaling the unreal in language evolution: locating irrealis syntactic projection in phylogenetic time

This paper discusses the signification of the unreal in human language from an evolutionary perspective with the aid of recent research on language evolution across distinct but interrelated fields. The term ‘unreal’ is used here to refer to situations or entities that are not—yet—true or existing and in linguistic terms it relates to the notion of nonveridicality (Giannakidou 1998, Giannakidou Mari 2021), which is an analysis of the pretheoretical notion of the irrealis. From a biological perspective the role of the lateral prefrontal cortex is here highlighted regarding the signification of the unreal. In particular the function of prefrontal synthesis (PFS), defined in Vyshedskiy (2019) as the ‘conscious, purposeful process of synthesizing novel mental images from two or more objects stored in memory’

Epistemology and Semiotics, Information and Sign: An Introduction

This introduction begins with the expansion of the field of semiotics and continues with the relationship between semiotics and epistemology before presenting the articles that make up this special issue of the journal Syn-Thèses. The content and transmutation of sign and its information through the conversation of the sciences has been a challenge for a number of scholars who have studied it in different research settings and through different semiotic theories, enriching our knowledge as readers and advancing one of the most important issues of our time: the conversation of the sciences and how it can help people and the advancement of science

Comparing treebanks

Sionti M. Comparing treebanks. In: Chatzopoulou K, Ioannidou A, Suwon Y, eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Greek Linguistics. 2009: 596-607

Petrography and provenance of floor sediments from the Loutra Almopias Cave (Pella, Macedonia, Greece)

Thirty seven floor sediment samples of Upper Pleistocene age from the Loutra Almopias Cave were collected from different beds and stratigraphic columns on the basis of their induration grade, grain distribution, and paleontological findings. Channel facies make up the bulk of the clastic sediments found in the cave passages. Slackwater facies compose the final layer of all the stratigraphic sections of the examined cave. The floor sediments are mineralogically immature, since they contain many ferromagnesian minerals, feldspars (especially plagioclase) and quartz. The extensive presence of silicate minerals means that the phyllites, gneisses, schists, ophiolitic rocks and the clastic Mariam Formation of the Almopia Zone are the main detrital load source, along with the flysch of the neighboring Pelagonian Zone. The presence of sand-sized grains, pebbles and cobbles of dolomitic or calcitic composition also designates the carbonate rocks of the Almopia and Pelagonian Zones as primary sources. The dolomite and calcite content of secondary chemical origin in the cave sediments is very limited. Kutnohorite, isomorphous with dolomite, was found for first time in a Greek cave. The provenance of the sediments is mixed; they are composed mainly of the weathering materials of the Alpine metamorphic basement and the carbonate rocks outcropping adjacent to the cave. The sediments were transported and deposited inside the cave, after rapid weathering and erosion of the surrounding rocks, under a tectonically active regime. The mineralogical variation in the stratigraphic columns demonstrates variations in the clastic load, due to the different weathering intensity periods. Most of the sediments are fluvial deposits, and one is considered a glacial deposit. Fossils of Lepus timidus (mountain hare) found within the cave represent the southernmost record of this species in Europe. Its presence signifies a cool phase at the end of the last glacial period before the onset of the warm Holocene Epoch