Kiki Nikiforidou Associate Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics, Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Athens Address: Faculty of English, School of Philosophy, University of Athens, Panepistimioupoli, Zografou 15784, Greece e-mail: vnikifor@enl.uoa.gr
Short CV and Publications
Areas of specialization Cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, grammaticalization, lexicography.
Current research interests Construction grammar and discourse, indeterminacy in grammar, grammatical meaning, grammatical polysemy.
Education Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1990 M.A. Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1985 B.A. Classics, University of Athens, 1983
Co-Editor Constructions and Frames (John Benjamins) http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/cf
Peer reviewing work Pragmatics and Cognition, English Text Construction, Journal of Greek Linguistics
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
(2011) (with E. Antonopoulou) “Construction grammar and conventional discourse: A construction-based approach to discoursal incongruity”. Journal of Pragmatics 43: 2594-2609.
(2010) “Viewpoint and construction grammar: The case of past + now”. Language and Literature 19(3): 265-284
(2010) (with R. Torres Cacoullos) “Variably future-marked conditionals in Greek: Integrating discourse and grammar”. Constructions and Frames 2:1. 90-123.
(2010) (with D. Katis) “Indeterminacy in grammar and acquisition: an interdisciplinary approach to relative clauses”. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8(1): 1-18.
(2005) “Conceptual blending and the interpretation of relatives: A case study from Greek”. Cognitive Linguistics 16-1. 169-206.
(2002) (with E. Antonopoulou) “Deictic motion and the adoption of perspective in Greek”. Pragmatics 12-3. 273-295. |