Michalis Georgiafentis

Michalis Georgiafentis is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Language and Linguistics, Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has studied English Language and Literature (specialisation: Language – Linguistics) at the University of Athens, and Linguistics (MA and PhD) at the University of Reading, UK. His research interests include Theoretical Linguistics, English and Greek Syntax, word order variation, focusing phenomena and information structure (Syntax – Phonology – Pragmatics – Semantics interface), and grammar teaching. 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 21^st 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 book Grammar: 5^th and 6^th Grade of the Primary School (Γραμματική Ε’ και Στ’ Δημοτικού), Athens: OEDV (2009), and has translated the book: Holton, D., Mackridge, P. & Philippaki-Warburton, I. (2004). Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language (Βασική Γραμματική της Σύγχρονης Ελληνικής Γλώσσας), Athens: Patakis Publishers (2007). Finally, he has co-edited the following volumes: Reading Working Papers in Linguistics 5 (2001), 6 (2002), 7 (2003), 8 (2005) University of Reading, Current Trends in Greek Linguistics: Essays in Honour of Irene Philippaki-Warburton (Σύγχρονες Τάσεις στην Ελληνική Γλωσσολογία: Μελέτες Αφιερωμένες στην Ειρήνη Φιλιππάκη-Warburton), Athens: Patakis Publishers (2003), Journal of Greek Linguistics 13.2, special issue ‘Words in Order’, Leiden: Brill (2013), and Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax, London: Bloomsbury (2020). From 2017 onwards, he has been the co-director of the Interdepartmental Research Programme "Linguistics and Grammar Teaching".