Faculty Member, English Studies
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
About
He read Philology (majoring in Linguistics) at the University of Athens (1995) and graduated with an MA in Linguistics from UCL in 1997. In 2000 he was awarded a PhD in Linguistics for his thesis “Pronominals and empty noun heads: ‘pronominality’ and licensing in Syntax” by the University of Essex, published as a monograph in 2002 by John Benjamins.
From 2000 to 2002 he taught Developmental Linguistics and Psycholinguistics in Middlesex University and Birkbeck College (University of London), as well as English Linguistics for the Open University. In 2002 he moved to Cyprus and worked as Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Humanities at Cyprus College – of which he served as Chair between 2005 and 2007. In 2006 he organised the 'Edges in Syntax' conference, part one of the Cyprus Syntaxfest. In 2007 he joined the Department of English Studies at the University of Cyprus as Assistant Professor of Linguistics.
He has presented over seventy papers and talks and has published extensively in journals (Linguistic Inquiry, Lingua, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Studia Linguistica, Journal of Linguistics) and jointly authored volumes. He has written on issues in language and Linguistics in Greek language newspapers since 2006.
He is the editor of 'Complementizer Phase: subjects and operators', to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press.
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