Word Formation: Syntax or Morphology?

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the internal constituent structure of the verbal forms in Modern Greek. The evidence presented shows that word formation is a complex process involving the obligatory interaction of syntactic as well as morphological structural levels, contra Rivero (1990) and Joseph and Smirniotopoulos (1993). It is argued that both syntax and morphology set constraints that must be satisfied in order for the derived forms to be grammatical.