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THE SYNTAX OF TOPIC ORGANISATION IN ENGLISH AND GREEK* Philip King: University of Birmingham * This paper is based on a presentation originally made at the Fourth International Symposium on the Description/Comparison of English and Greek, held by the English Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in April 1990. Abstract: Although formal comparisons between the grammar and syntax of English and Greek are relatively readily available, there has been less work done with a functional focus at the discourse level. However, dissertation drafts produced in English by Greek students show errors in topic signalling which can be traced back to a conflict between the permissible patterns of English academic writing and those of Greek. The present study considers and compares two features in particular: how the sentence-initial topic is incorporated into the syntax of the sentence, and the function of the -ing clause, comparing the latter with the function of -?ντα? clauses in Greek. Illustrative data are taken from academic and technical sources for both English and Greek, while examples to highlight mismatches are taken from samples of student writing. It is shown that, although similarly structured patterns occur in both languages, there may be functional or conventional discourse restrictions on their occurrence in English in particular which make the establishment of equivalence complex, and account at least in part for the errors made in producing English academic discourse. 1. BACKGROUND: The motivation for this paper arises out of my work at the University of Birmingham, where I am one of a small group of lecturers constituting the English for Overseas Students Unit, which as one of its principal duties provides English language and study skills support to such students. It was in the course of working with a Greek student on the English of his PhD that I became aware that, while at the larger rhetorical discourse level (Connor Kaplan 19