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.

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