Greek temporal connectives

Lexical entries for the Modern Greek temporal connectives: prin 'before', whose complement is a na-subjunctive, afou 'after' and otan 'when' with indicative complements, and mexri 'until'. Giannakidou takes mexri for Karttunen's durative until and the polarity item para monon, literally 'but only', for the punctual one, so that Greek lexicalizes the two untils apart; Iatridou and Zeijlstra read para monon as an exceptive and note that mexri also takes perfectives. Each classification lives in its paper's study.

References

• [Gia02]
• [Kar74b]
• [IZ21]

def Greek.StandardModern.TemporalConnectives.prin : Tense.Connective

prin (πριν) 'before' takes a na-subjunctive complement, as in efije prin na erthi o Janis 'she left before Janis came'.

Equations

• Greek.StandardModern.TemporalConnectives.prin = { form := "prin", relation := Tense.Connective.Relation.before, mood := some Mood.Grammatical.subjunctive }

def Greek.StandardModern.TemporalConnectives.afou : Tense.Connective

afou (αφού) 'after' takes an indicative complement, as in efije afou irthe o Janis 'she left after Janis came'.

Equations

• Greek.StandardModern.TemporalConnectives.afou = { form := "afou", relation := Tense.Connective.Relation.after, mood := some Mood.Grammatical.indicative }

def Greek.StandardModern.TemporalConnectives.otan : Tense.Connective

otan (όταν) 'when' takes an indicative complement, as in efije otan irthe o Janis 'she left when Janis came'.

Equations

• Greek.StandardModern.TemporalConnectives.otan = { form := "otan", relation := Tense.Connective.Relation.when_, mood := some Mood.Grammatical.indicative }

def Greek.StandardModern.TemporalConnectives.mexri : Tense.Connective

mexri (μέχρι) means 'until', as in i prigipisa kimotane mexri ta mesanixta 'the princess was sleeping until midnight'.

Equations

• Greek.StandardModern.TemporalConnectives.mexri = { form := "mexri", relation := Tense.Connective.Relation.until_ }