Agrammatism in Greek: aspects of production and comprehension

The present paper addresses the question of whether the deficient production and comprehension patterns exhibited by Broca’s aphasics is an indication of competence or performance limitations, an issue that has recently become a central focus of cross-linguistic studies of agrammatism. The study presented in this paper investigates the language production of one agrammatic patient involving a range of linguistic impairments co-occurring with a less extended comprehension deficit. With respect to the performance/competence dilemma set from the beginning of this paper, the evidence suggests that the deficit in agrammatism cannot be described in terms of a structural account but rather by means of difficulties in the implementation of grammatical knowledge