Michalis Georgiafentis is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Division of Language and Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He studied English Language and Literature (specialisation: Language – Linguistics) at the NKUA, 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 (interfaces), Pedagogical Linguistics, linguistics and grammar teaching. He has published papers in international journals (Lingua, Journal of Greek Linguistics, Didacticae: Journal of Research in Specific Didactics), 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, Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax, Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics) and in conference proceedings. He is one of the authors of the book Grammar: 5th and 6th Grade of the Primary School (Γραμματική Ε’ και Στ’ Δημοτικού), School Book Publishing Organization (OEDV) / CTI ‘DIOPHANTUS’ (2009/2011), and has translated the book: Holton, Mackridge, & Philippaki-Warburton (2004). Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language (Βασική Γραμματική της Σύγχρονης Ελληνικής Γλώσσας), Patakis Publishers (2007). Finally, he has co-edited the following volumes: Reading Working Papers in Linguistics 5 (2001), 6 (2002), 7 (2003), 8 (2005), Current Trends in Greek Linguistics: Essays in Honour of Irene Philippaki-Warburton (Σύγχρονες Τάσεις στην Ελληνική Γλωσσολογία: Μελέτες Αφιερωμένες στην Ειρήνη Φιλιππάκη-Warburton) (2003), Journal of Greek Linguistics 13.2 (2013), special issue ‘Words in Order’, Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax (2020), and Journal of Greek Linguistics 25.1 (2025), special issue ‘Information structure in Greek: Interface and comparative studies’. From 2017 until 2023 he was co-director of the Interdepartmental Research Programme "Linguistics and Grammar Teaching" and since 2023 he has been a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Lab "Linguistics and Grammar Teaching", School of Philosophy, NKUA.