He is the author of the monograph Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns; he has also published a number of articles in international journals (Lingua, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry and Syntax) and has contributed book chapters to a number of volumes. He has given numerous talks and presentations on topics ranging from the architecture of Grammar, grammatical features and the nominal phrase to language acquisition, dialectology, and the politics of language.

• The cross-linguistics distribution and feature make-up of functional categories
• The nature and (non-)universality of grammatical categories.
• Mixed categories (gerunds, nominalisations etc.).
• The structure of nominal phrases, pronouns and pronominal clitics.
• Theoretical issues in language acquisition and change.
• The grammar of Greek and the Balkan Sprachbund.

BOOK:

2002 'Pronouns, clitics and empty nouns'. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

PAPERS IN JOURNALS AND VOLUMES:

2000. 'Demonstrative determiners and operators: the case of Greek'. Lingua 110, 717-742

2002. 'Pronominal Nouns'. In Wiese, Heike & Horst, Simon (Eds.) Pronouns: Grammar and Representation. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 183-203

2003. 'Empty Nouns'. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 21, 381-432

2003. 'One, Empty Nouns And Theta Assignment'. Linguistic Inquiry 34, 281-292

2005. 'Against category-less roots in syntax and word learning: objections to Barner and Bale (2002)'. Lingua 115, 1181-1194

2005. 'Determiner heads as arguments and the Pronominal Argument (macro)parameter'. In Stavrou, Melita & Terzi, Arhonto (Eds.) Advances in Greek Generative Syntax. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 41-60

2006. (with S. Tsiplakou) 'An A-binding asymmetry and its significance for Universal Grammar'. Linguistic Inquiry 37, 167-177

2008. 'Diachronic stability and feature interpretability' In Biberauer, Theresa (ed.) The limits of syntactic variation. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 441-456

2009. (with K. K. Grohmann) 'Mixed Projections: Categorial Switches and Prolific Domains'. Linguistic Analysis 35: 141-161.

2010. 'Non-argumental mixed projections'. Syntax 13

2011. (with Theodore Marinis) 'Determiner Spreading as DP-predication'. Studia Linguistica 65.


EDITOR OF

with Kleanthes Grohmann. 2009. 'Selected Papers from the 2006 Cyprus Syntaxfest'. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.

with Kleanthes Grohmann. 2009. (2005) Linguistic Analysis – Special Issue on Phase Edge Investigations 35

'The Complementiser Phase: subjects and operators'. [Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 30]. 2010. Oxford: OUP.

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