Christofidou Anastasia

 

Current Position

2013-     Acting Director and Director of Research in the Research Centre for Scientific Terms and Neologisms

2003-     Teaching postgraduate linguistic Courses in Pedagogical Department, University of Athens

 

Education

1991       PhD in Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria

1985       University Degree in Classics, School of Philosophy, University of Athens.

 

Previous Positions

2007-12 Head of the Research Centre for Scientific Terms and Neologisms and Director of Research

2005-07  Senior researcher at the Research Centre for Scientific Terms and Neologisms, Academy of Athens.

2003-      Teaching Linguistics in Pedagogical Department, University of Athens.

1996-      Researcher at the Research Centre for Scientific Terms and Neologisms, Academy of Athens.

1994-      Greek Expert in the International Pre-and Protomorphology Project of Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna (co-ordinator Prof. W.U. Dressler).

1993-96   Adjunct Assistant Professor in Linguistics (graduate and postgraduate classes), University of Grete.

1992-93   Post-doctoral researcher in ILSP (Institute of Language and Speech Processing), Athens.

 

Teaching/Supervisions:

Courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the following Universities:

University of Crete, Department of Philology (1993-96), University of Athens, Department of German Language (1994) and Pedagogical Department (2003-)

Courses in Marasleio Didaskaleion (2003-06) and in training programmes for the in-service primary school teachers, organized by the University of Athens (2003-05).

Main supervisor of numerous undergraduate and graduate theses // Co-supervisor of doctorate students (member of PhD candidates’ supervisory committees)

 

Research interests / Teaching:

Morphology (word formation, neology, language acquisition), Textlinguistics, Textlinguistics/Morphology interface, Terminology, Corpus linguistics

 

Reviewer for:

Journal of Greek Linguistics

Journal of Child Language

Glossologia

International Linguistic Volumes: de Gruyter, Benjamins etc.

 

Long time Collaborations:

Pedagogical Department, University of Athens (2003-)

University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences (1994-)

Austrian Academy of Sciences (in bilateral agreement with Academy of Athens), 2008-10

 

 

International Research projects (EE funded):

International Pre-Protomorphology Project, Univ. of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1994-

 Erasmus (Univ. of Crete/ Univ. of Münster: Corpora and e-lexicography), 1994-96

Lingua project (Univ. of Crete/ University of Amsterdam/ Univ. of Basque Country: Greek as foreign language), 1993-95

Stride project (ILSP: Design of a Greek corpus-Text classification), 1992-93

               

Grants:

1992-93 ILSP, Athens (post-doctoral research)

1986-89  S. Saripolou Foundation scholarship, Athens

1989-91  Afroasiatisches Institut scholarship, Vienna

1989  Linguistic Society of America scholarship (Summer school classes)

 

Selected publications:

 

A. Books/Monographs

1992      Okkasionalismen in Poetischen Texten. Tuebingen: G. Narr.

2001       O poiitikos Neologismos ke oi Leitourgies tou (The Functions of Poetic Neologisms) Athens: Gutenberg.

2008       The Acquisition of Greek Case, Number, and Gender: A Usage-Based Approach. Arbeitspapiere 55. University of Cologne <Stephany U. & A. Christofidou>

2009       (ed.) Deltio Epistimonikis Orologias ke Neologismon, vol. 9-10 (Bulletin of Scientific Terminology and Neologisms) Athens: Academy of Athens.

2012       (ed.) Deltio Epistimonikis Orologias ke Neologismon, vol. 11 (Bulletin of Scientific Terminology and Neologisms) Athens: Academy of Athens.

2013       (ed.) Dhimiourghia ke morfi sti ghlossa. Deltio Epistimonikis Orologias ke Neologismon, vol. 12 (Bulletin of Scientific Terminology and Neologisms) Athens: Academy of Athens.

2015       (ed.) Deltio Epistimonikis Orologias ke Neologismon, vol. 13 (Bulletin of Scientific Terminology and Neologisms) Athens: Academy of Athens.

In print Deltio Epistimonikis Orologias ke Neologismon, vol. 14. (Bulletin of Scientific Terminology and Neologisms) Athens: Academy of Athens.

 

B.  Selected Articles and volume contributions

1990       “Wortbildung und Text” in Monica Berretta et al. (eds), Parallela 4, 147-155. Tuebingen: Gunter Narr.

1993       “Paradigm, Polysemy/Synonymy and Productivity in Word Formation” in L. Tonelli / W.U. Dressler (eds), Natural Morphology. Perspectives for the nineties. 99-108. Padova: Unipress.

1994       “Agreement via Derivational Morphology in Greek” in Glossologia 9, 69-79. <A. Christofidou/ U. Doleschal / W. U. Dressler>

1996       “Keimenikoi Deiktes. Thesi-Chrisi-Simasia” (Discourse particles. Position-Usage-Meaning) In G. Katsimali / F. Kavoukopoulos (eds), Zitimata Neo-Ellinikis Glossas. Rethymno: Crete University. 133-149.

1997       “Α textlinguistic approach to the phenomenon of multi-word compounds in Greek” in G. Drachman et al. (eds), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Greek Linguistics, (Salzburg). 67-75. Graz: Neugebauer Verlag.

1997       “Τhe Early Development of Case Forms in the Speech of a Greek Boy” in Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics (PSiCL), vol. 33. 127-139. <A. Christofidou / U. Stephany>

1997       “On the demarcation of phases in early morphology acquisition in four languages” in Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics (PSiCL), vol. 33. 15-32. <M. Kilani-Schoch, A. de Marco, A. Christofidou, M. Vassilakou, R.Vollmann, W. U. Dressler>

1998       “Case or number first? Evidence from Modern Greek”, in Á. Aksu - Koç et al. (ed.), Perspectives on Language Acquisition. Selected Papers from the 7^th International Congress for the Study of Child Language Acquisition. 46-59. Istanbul: Boğazii University.

2002       “Gender and noun declension in Greek. A natural approach” in C. Clairis (ed.), Recherches en Linguistique grecque I, 143-146. Paris: L’Harmattan.

2003       “Early Phases in the Development of Greek Verb Ιnflection” in D. Bittner /W.U.Dressler / M. Kilani-Schoch (eds), Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition. 89-129. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. <A.Christofidou/ U. Stephany>

2004      “Genos ke klisi tou ellinikou onomatos. Μia fisiki proseggisi” (Gender and Greek noun declension. A natural approach” in A. Anastasiadi -Simeonidi /A. Ralli / D. Chila-Markopoulou (eds), To genos (Gender). 100-131. Athens: Patakis.

2007       “Strongly inflecting languages: Russian-Croatian-Greek” in Laaha, S. & Gillis, S. (eds) Typological perspectives on the acquisition of noun and verb morphology (= Antwerp Papers in Linguistics). Antwerp: University of Antwerp <For Greek: U. Stephany & A. Christofidou>

2008       “Synochikes Leitourgies Neologismon ke Keimenikes katigories” (Cohesive Functions of Neologisms and Text classification) in A. Moser/ Bakakou-Orfanou / Ch. Charalambakis / D. Chila-Markopoulou (eds) Glossis Charin. 475-486. Athens: Ellinika Grammata.

2009       The emergence of nominal inflection in Greek. In Ursula Stephany & Maria D. Voeikova (eds), Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition: A Cross-LinguisticPerspective, 217-264. (Studies on Language Acquisition 30). Berlin/NewYork: Mouton de Gruyter. <Stephany, Ursula & Anastasia Christofidou>

2011       “On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection”. First Language, 31 (4), σελ. 461 - 479, <A.Xanthos et al.> (http://fla.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/06/18/0142723711409976)

2016       “Genus und Deklination im Deutschen und Griechischen im System und im Erstspracherwerb: eine kontrastive Untersuchung“ in A. Bittner & C. Spiess (eds) Formen und Funktionen. Morphosemantik und grammatische Konstruktion, Festschrift für Prof. Κ. - Μ. Köpcke. Berlin:de Gruyter.61-84 < W. U. Dressler, K. Korecky-Kröll, A. Christofidou, K. Mörth >

(in print)  “Soma epopteias neologismon tis Neas Ellinikis. Schediasmos ke keimeniki taksinomisi” (The Monitor Corpus of Modern Greek Neologisms: Design and Genre Classification) in A. Christofidou (ed.) Aspects of Corpus Linguistics: Principles, implementations, challenges. Deltio Epistimonikis Orologias ke Neologismon, vol. 14 (Bulletin of Scientific Terminology and Neologisms), Athens: Academy of Athens. < V. Afentoulidou & A. Christofidou).

(submitted and accepted)  “Nonce formations in Greek children’s literature. Contrastive analysis and language teaching”. The child and the book (International Conference in Αthens, 10-12 of April, 2014) <Α. Christofidou & I. Dimitropoulou>

(submitted and accepted) “From defining to semi-automated detecting (AN) two-word compounds. A plan to enrich a database of neologisms”. Multi word expressions in Greek. Deltio Epistimonikis Orologias ke Neologismon, vol. 15  in S. Markantonatou and A. Christofidou (eds), Athens: Academy of Athens <A. Christofidou, V. Afentoulidou, A. Karasimos, R. Vassiliadou>