UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Faculty of English Studies

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Michalis Georgiafentis is a Lecturer (407/80) in Linguistics at the Department of Language %26 Linguistics, Faculty of English Studies, University of Athens. He has studied English Language %26 Literature (specialisation: Language – Linguistics) at the University of Athens, and Linguistics (MA and PhD) at the University of Reading. His research interests include Theoretical Linguistics, English and Greek Syntax, word order variation, focusing phenomena and information structure (Syntax – Phonology – Pragmatics – Semantics interface). He has published papers in international journals, in edited volumes (Reading Working Papers in Linguistics, Current Trends in Greek Linguistics: Essays in Honour of Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Converging Trends for the 21st Century, Syntax in the Teaching and Learning of Greek as a Foreign Language) and in conference proceedings. He is one of the authors of the bookΓραμματική Ε’ %26 Στ’ Δημοτικού. Athens: Pedagogical Institute and Patakis Publishers (in prep.), and has translated the book: Holton, D., Mackridge, P. %26 Philippaki-Warburton, I. (2004). Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language (Βασική Γραμματική της Σύγχρονης Ελληνικής Γλώσσας). Athens: Patakis Publishers, (in press). Finally, he has co-edited the following volumes: Reading Working Papers in Linguistics 5 (2001), 6 (2002), 7 (2003), 8 (2005) University of Reading, and Σύγχρονες Τάσεις στην Ελληνική Γλωσσολογία: Μελέτες Αφιερωμένες στην Ειρήνη Φιλιππάκη-Warburton (Current Trends in Greek Linguistics: Essays in Honour of Irene Philippaki-Warburton). Athens: Patakis Publishers, (2003).

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