Chairetakis Georgios

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Morphology, Language Contact, Historical linguistics, Dialectology, Historical lexicography

STUDIES

2015-2020 University of Patras, Department of Philology, Linguistics Section, PHD. Doctoral dissertation: ‘‘The morphology of the Cretan dialect: inflection and derivation" [in Greek].

2012-2015 University of Patras, Department of Philology, Linguistics Section, MA. Master thesis: ‘‘A cross-dialectal study of the Modern Greek dialectal compounding’’ [in Greek].

2008-2012 University of Patras, Department of Philology, Linguistics Section, BA. Dissertation: ‘‘Lexical borrowing and strategies of word derivation based on loanwords in Cretan’’ [in Greek].

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2023 Innovative actions for the utilization and promotion of the Cultural and Scientific Stock of the Academy of Athens. Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020 (EPAnEK) for the digitalization of cultural and historical monuments.

2018-2022 Digitizing the Cappadocian Dialectal Landscape (DiCaDLand). Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects, Department of Philology, University of Patras.

2016-2018 Immigration and Language in Canada. Greeks and Greek-Canadians. (Immigrec). University of Patras in collaboration with the universities of McGill, York and Simon Fraser.

2015- Documentation, analysis and digitization of the Modern Greek dialectal compounds (DiComp). Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects, Department of Philology, University of Patras.

2014-2016 Retaining Greek in Enclaved Communities: Greek speaking Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus and Turkish Cretans of Cunda Island in Turkey (GRECO). University of Cyprus.

2012-2015 Morphology in Language Contact Situations: Greek in contact with Turkish and Italian (MORILAN). Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects, Department of Philology, University of Patras.

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH EXHIBITIONS

2019 Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects (LMGD) and its contribution to the documentation of Greek linguistic varieties: presentation of research products. 14th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL14). Patras: University of Patras.

2017 Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects: ‘‘Documenting and preserving linguistic heritage’’. 4th Patras IQ for research and innovation. Patras.

PUBLICATIONS

A. ARTICLES

forthcoming: Ralli, Angela and Georgios Chairetakis. Compounding in Cretan across centuries. In D. Holton and I. Manolessou (Eds.), Greek after Antiquity: Achievements and challenges in historical linguistics. BSA/Routledge.

2024: Chairetakis, Georgios. Numerals in Modern Greek dialects [in Greek]. Studies in Greek Linguistics 43. Thessaloniki: Institute of Greek Studies. 645-655.

2024: Chairetakis, Georgios and Angela Ralli. Compounding in Cretan [in Greek]. Studies in Greek Linguistics 43. Thessaloniki: Institute of Greek Studies. 657-667.

2024: Chairetakis, Georgios. Cretan: Medieval/Venetian and Modern Period. In G. Giannakis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Brill.

2024: Chairetakis, Georgios. Paradigm. In G. Giannakis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Brill.

2024: Chairetakis, Georgios. Parisyllabic vs Imparisyllabic Paradigms. In G. Giannakis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Brill.

2024: Blažek, Václav & Georgios Chairetakis. Numerals. In G. Giannakis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Brill.

2023: Tsouknidas, Georgios and Georgios Chairetakis. Compounding in Phthiotic [in Greek]. Lexicographic Bulletin 27-28. Athens: Academy of Athens. 335-353.

2022: Chairetakis, Georgios and Angela Ralli. An electronically-based investigation of left-headed dialectal compounds. In M. Kisilier (Ed.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT9), 33-53.

2021: Chairetakis, Georgios. The nominal inflection of the Cretan dialect from the Late Medieval period onwards [in Greek]. In Markopoulos et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14^th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL14). Patras: University of Patras. 1481-1493.

2020: Angela Ralli, Chairetakis Georgios and Charalambos Tsimpouris. Documenting, analyzing and digitizing Modern Greek dialectal compounds with the use of the DiComp electronic database [in Greek]. Studies in Greek Linguistics 40, 391-403. Thessaloniki: Institute of Greek Studies.

2019: Chairetakis, George. Turkish loanwords and loanblends in Cretan dialect: strategies and patterns. Ιn A. Balas et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Patras International Conference of Graduate students in Linguistics (PICGL5). Patras: University of Patras. 74-91.

2019: Tsimpouris Charalambos, Bompolas Stavros, Papanagiotou Christos, Chairetakis Georgios, Alexelli Vasiliki and Angela Ralli. A data archiving and browsing multimodal system for the language of Greek immigrants in Canada. Patras Working Papers in Linguistics 5 (PWPL5): 193-208.

2019: Tsimpouris Charalambos, Bompolas Stavros, Papanagiotou Christos, Chairetakis Georgios, Alexelli Vasiliki and Angela Ralli. A data archiving and browsing multimodal system for the language of Greek immigrants in Canada [in Greek]. Patras Working Papers in Linguistics 5 (PWPL5): 103-119.

B. BOOKS

2024: Manolessou, Ι., Katsouda, G., Tsolakidis, S., Papanagiotou, Chr. & G. Chairetakis. Historical Dictionary of the Cappadocian Dialects, volume A (a-kaváði). Academy of Athens-Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects-I.L.N.E.