Background

Date of birth

9 June 1966

Place of birth

Athens, Greece

Nationality

Greek

Marital status

Married

Qualifications

1984-1988: BA in Greek Literature
University of Athens, Class: First
Studentship: State Scholarships Foundation, Greece

1988-1989: MA in Linguistics
University College London, Mark: Distinction
Studentship: British Academy One Year Studentship

1989-1994: PhD in Linguistics
University College London
Title: The Semantics and Pragmatics of the Subjunctive in Modern Greek
Studentships: (a) British Academy Major Studentship (1989-1990); (b) Greek State Scholarships Foundation (1990-1994)

1999 Diploma in Translation, Institute of Linguists

Previous employment

1994-1997: British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT

1992-1994: Part-time lecturer in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at University College London.

1989-1992: Various teaching assistantships in the Departments of Linguistics at University College London and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London)

Publications

Books

1994

The Semantics and Pragmatics of the Subjunctive in Modern Greek. PhD thesis, University College London.

1998

Current Issues in Relevance Theory. Book co-edited with A. Jucker for the Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, John Benjamins.

Articles

1990

"But: Contradiction and Relevance". In J. Harris (ed) UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 2: 65-81.

1991

"The Interpretation of Na-clauses in Modern Greek: A Relevance-Theoretic Approach". In J. van de Koot (ed) UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 3: 255-277.

1992

"On the Referential-Attributive Distinction". Lingua 87: 137-167.

1993

"Relevance Theory and Na-Interrogatives in Modern Greek". In J.Harris (ed) UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 5: 249-276.

1994a

"The Subjunctive in Modern Greek: Dividing the Labour between Semantics and Pragmatics". Journal of Modern Greek Studies 12: 185-201.

1994b

"On Indefinite Descriptions". Journal of Linguistics 30/2: 441-475.

1994c

"Na-Interrogatives in Modern Greek: Their Interpretation and Relevance". In Philippaki-Warburton, I. et al (eds) Themes in Greek Linguistics. John Benjamins.

1996

"Discourse Connectives: what do they link?" In Harris, J (ed) UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 8.

1998

"Connectives, coherence and relevance". In Rouchota, V. and Jucker, A. (eds) Current Issues in Relevance Theory. John Benjamins.

1998

"Procedural meaning and parenthetical discourse markers". In Jucker, A. and Ziv, Y. (eds) Discourse Markers. John Benjamins.