Profile
Assoc. Prof. of Biolinguistics (Theory, Development, Grammar), University of Cyprus (since 2009)
Asst. Prof. of Theoretical Linguistics, University of Cyprus (2004-2009)
Visiting Lecturer (fall)/Asst. Prof. (spring), University of Cyprus (2003-2004)
post-doc and visiting positions in Germany: Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Cologne (2001-2003)
PhD Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park (2000)
BA Linguistics (First Class Honours), University College of North Wales, Bangor (1996)
Research Interests
biolinguistics (generative grammar)
architecture of the grammar (interfaces)
theoretical syntax (minimalism)
comparative syntax (esp. Germanic, Romance, Slavic/Balkan)
(Cypriot) Greek morpho-syntax
(first and second) language acquisition
language impairments (and breakdown)
Selected Publications
BOOKS & VOLUMES
InterPhases: Phase-Theoretic Investigations of Linguistic Interfaces (ed.), Oxford University Press (2009)
Explorations of Phase Theory: Features and Arguments (ed.), Mouton de Gruyter (2009)
Explorations of Phase Theory: Interpretation at the Interfaces (ed.), Mouton de Gruyter (2009)
Selected Papers from the 2006 Cyprus Syntaxfest (ed. with Phoevos Panagiotidis), Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2009)
Understanding Minimalism (with Norbert Hornstein & Jairo Nunes), Cambridge University Press (2005)
Prolific Domains: On the Anti-Locality of Movement Dependencies, John Benjamins (2003)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
'The Biolinguistics Manifesto’ (with Cedric Boeckx), Biolinguistics 1: 1-8 (2007)
'Putting Phases in Perspective’ (with Cedric Boeckx), Syntax 10.2: 204-222 (2007)
'Transfer vs. Spell-Out and the Road to PF’, Linguistic Analysis 33.1-2: 176-194 (2007)
BOOK CHAPTERS
'On the Post-Finite Misagreement Phenomenon: PFM in Late Middle English’ (with Richard Ingham), in: English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume I: Syntax & Morphology (ed. by M. Gotti, M. Dossena & R. Dury), John Benjamins (2008)
'Temporal and Aspectual Variation in ARIs’ (with Ricardo Etxepare), in: Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality (ed. by L. de Saussure, J. Moeschler & G. Puskás), Mouton de Gruyter (2007)
'Top Issues in Questions: Topics — Topicalization — Topicalizability’, in: Wh-Movement: Moving On (ed. by L.L.-S. Cheng & N. Corver), MIT Press (2006)
'On the Expression of Pejorative Mood’ (with Andrew Ira Nevins), in: Linguistic Variation Yearbook 4 (ed. by P. Pica with J. Rooryck & J. van Craenenbroeck), John Benjamins (2005) Personal Website: http://kleanthes.biolinguistics.eu Click here to download CV |