Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Department of English and American Studies

1986-1990

Philology, specialization in Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece.

1990-1991

MA, Linguistics, University of Reading, UK.

08/92-12/94

Ph.D. student at the Center for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals ('Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung' (ZAS)) Berlin.

12/1994

Ph.D., Linguistics, Universität Potsdam.

1/95-3/99

Research associate at ZAS.

4/99-9/99

Research associate, Dept. of Theoretical Linguistics, Unversity of  Tübingen.

07/1999

Habilitation (Linguistics), Universität Potsdam.

10/99-3/00

Managing Director of ZAS.

04/00-06/00

Research associate at the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Potsdam.

7/00-12/00

Heisenberg Fellow (University of Potsdam, MIT and Princeton University).

1/01-09/01

Replacement of the Dept. Chair at the Institute of English Linguistics, Universität Stuttgart.

10/01-09/02

Heisenberg Fellow (University of Pennsylvania, University of Potsdam).

10/02-09/15

Professor of Theoretical and English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart.

07/2007

Visiting Professor, Stanford University, USA, LSA Summer School.

10/15-

2016-

Professor of English Linguistics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Vice Director, Leibniz-ZAS.

1998-2000

Greek Ministry of Development, special research grant for Greek scientists abroad 

2000- 2002

DFG Heisenberg Fellowship. Research Project: Facets of Unaccusativity

1/03-3/06

Director of the Graduate Program (GRK 609) Linguistic Representations and their Interpretation, Universität Stuttgart.

2004-2007

DFG grant AL 554/3-1 Basis and boundaries of unaccusativity.

2006

DFG AL 554/4-1 GLOW Summer School.

2007

DFG (GZ 4851-339-07) Conference on nominalizations across languages.

7/06-09/15

Director of the collaborative research center Incremental Specification in Context (SFB 732), Universität Stuttgart.

2006-2010

C1 The syntax of nominal modification and its interaction with nominal structure. SFB 732.

2006-3.2016

B1 The form and interpretation of nominals, SFB 732.

2010-2015

B6  Underspecification  in  Voice  systems  and  the  syntax-morphology  interface SFB 732.

2010-2013

DFG  DO  536/10-1  Prosodische Phrasierung  in der auditorischen und visuellen Satzverarbeitung 'Prosodic phrasing in auditory and visual sentence processing' (with Dogil & Kotchoubey).

2010-2011

DAAD ID-50726640 Nominalizations: explorations at the syntax-lexicon and the syntax-semantics interface (Collaboration Stuttgart/Tromsø;).

2011-2012

DAAD ID-50740971 Nominalizations: explorations at the syntax-lexicon and the syntax-semantics interface (Collaboration Stuttgart/Paris).

2013-2020

2014-2015

2014-2021

AL 554/7-1, 7-2 The Acquisition of Voice alternations by Greek-German bilingual children.

DAAD  ID  57067847  Die  Syntax-Morphologie  Schnittstelle:  Evidenz von  Multilingualism (Collaboration Stuttgart/Trondheim).

AL 554/8-1 (Leibniz Prize)

2014-2017

2018-2021

2018-2021

2020-2023

2021-2026

2021-2024

AL 554/10-1 Neue Wege in der Kontrolletheorie (with  Dr. Silke Firscher).

AL 554/12-1 DP Border (with Appl.Prof. Uli Sauerland)

AL 554/13-1 Nominal morphosyntax and word order in Heritage Greek

across majority languages (RUEG 2537)

Co-PI Project B1: Register and the development of Periphrasis in the history of English (with Tom McFadden), SFB 1412

Vice-Speaker of the SFB 1412 Register

ERC Synergy Grant LeibnizDream (with Uli Sauerland, ZAS & Maria Teresa Guasti, Milan)

AL554/15-1: Dynamics of verbal aspect and (pro)nominal refernece in language contact (with Natalia Gagarina and Luka Szucsich)

2020-2023: 

2019-:

2019-:

2016- :

2015- :

Member of the DFG Review Board 104 Sprachwissenschaften

Member of the Advisory Board of the University of Crete Research Center (UCRC) for the Humanities, the Social and Education Sciences

Member for the Elsa-Neumann Stipend Committee of the Federal State of Berlin,

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of AcqVA, now an Aurora center

Member of the Scientific Board of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld.

2013- 2020:

Member of the Advisory Board of Language Science Press.

2012- :

Member of the Network Language, Variation, and Migration, Universität Potsdam.

6/11-10/11:

Member of the Evaluation Panel of Nordic Centers of Excellence (Norwegian Research Council).

2010- :

Series Editor Brill Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory.

2010- :

Member of Academia Net, http://www.academia-net.de/.

2006-2010:

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of NORMS  (Nordic Center of Excellence in Micro-comparative syntax).

2002-2006:

Member of the Center of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld.

2000- :

Series Editor at Mouton de Gruyter: Interface Explorations (with Tracy A. Hall).

1999-2009:

Member of the Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Board (positions held: Newsletter editor 1999-2002; Secretary 2002-2005, Chairperson 2005-2009).

2003-2004:

Member  of  the  Board  of  the  Deutsche  Gesellschaft  für  Sprachwissenshaft  ‘German Linguistic Society’ (Treasurer).

2002-2003:

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenshaft.

currently member of the editorial board of Glossa, English Language and Linguistics, Linguistic Analysis, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Syntax.