Artemis Alexiadou

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Artemis Alexiadou, 2016

Artemis Alexiadou ( Greek Άρτεμις Αλεξιάδου , born February 13, 1969 in Volos ) is a Greek linguist who works in Germany.

Career

Alexiadou started her linguistics studies at the age of 17 at the University of Athens . After graduating there in 1990, Alexiadou continued her education first at the University of Reading and then at the Center for General Linguistics in Berlin . In 1994 Alexiadou completed his doctorate at the University of Potsdam and completed his habilitation in the same position in 1999. After completing his habilitation, Alexiadou did research as a Heisenberg fellow at MIT , Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania and was a visiting professor in Tübingen and Potsdam. From 2002 to 2015, Alexiadou was Professor of Theoretical and English Linguistics and Head of the Institute for Linguistics: English Studies at the University of Stuttgart and the Collaborative Research Center 732 there. Since 2015 Alexiadou has been Professor of English Linguistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Deputy Director of Center for General Linguistics .

Alexiadou is an important representative of generative linguistics in Europe and was president of the association "Generative Linguistics in the Old World" from 2005 to 2009. It has achieved important results on a wide variety of topics in syntax . In particular, Alexiadou is an expert on the syntactic structure of noun phrases .

For 2014 she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . In 2014 she was elected to the Leopoldina . In 2016, the Norwegian University of Technology and Sciences awarded Alexiadou an honorary doctorate .

Works (selection)

  • Alexiadou, Artemis: Adverb placement: a case study in antisymmetric syntax. Amsterdam, 1997: John Benjamin. ISBN 978-1-55619-902-8
  • Alexiadou, Artemis & T. Alan Hall (Eds.): Studies in Universal Grammar and Typological Variation . Amsterdam, 1997: John Benjamin. ISBN 978-1-55619-232-6
  • Alexiadou, Artemis & Chris Wilder (Eds.): Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the DP. Amsterdam, 1998: John Benjamin. ISBN 978-90-272-2743-0
  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Geoffrey Horrocks & Melita Stavrou (eds.): Studies in Greek Syntax. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Series. Dordrecht, 1999: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Paul Law, André Ansichter & Chris Wilder (Eds.): The Syntax of Relative Clauses. Amsterdam, 2000: John Benjamin. ISBN 978-1-55619-916-5
  • Alexiadou, Artemis: Functional Structure in Nominals: Nominalization, and Ergativity. Amsterdam, 2001: John Benjamin. ISBN 978-1588110558
  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers & Hans-Martin Gärtner (Eds.): Dimensions of Movement: from Features to Remnants. Amsterdam, 2002: John Benjamin. ISBN 978-1-58811-185-2
  • Alexiadou, Artemis (Ed.): Theoretical Approaches to Universals. Amsterdam, 2002: John Benjamin. ISBN 978-1-58811-191-3
  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Monika Rathert & Arnim von Stechow (eds.): Perfect Explorations. Berlin, 2003: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-017229-4
  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou & Martin Everaert (eds.): The Unaccusativity Puzzle. Oxford, 2004: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-925765-2
  • Alexiadou, Artemis (Ed.): Studies in the Morpho-syntax of Greek. Cambridge, 2007: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84718-384-2
  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Liliane Haegeman & Melita Stavrou: Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective. Berlin, 2007: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-017685-8
  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Jorge Hankamer, Justin Nugger, Thomas McFadden & Florian Schäfer: Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax. Amsterdam 2009: John Benjamin. ISBN 978-90-272-5524-2
  • Alexiadou, Artemis & Monika Rathert (Eds.): The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages ​​and Frameworks. Berlin, 2010: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-022653-9
  • Rathert, Monika & Artemis Alexiadou (Eds.): The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages ​​and Frameworks. Berlin, 2010: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-173977-9
  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Tibor Kiss & Gereon Müller (Eds.): Local Modeling of Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax. Berlin, 2012: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-029471-2
  • Alexiadou, Artemis & Florian Schäfer (Eds.): Non-Canonical Passives. Amsterdam, 2013: John Benjamin. ISBN 978-90-272-5588-4
  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Hagit Borer & Florian Schäfer (Eds.): The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax. Oxford, 2014: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199665266
  • Alexiadou, Artemis: Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs. Amsterdam, 2014: John Benjamin. ISBN 978-90-272-5594-5
  • Alexiadou, Artemis & Tibor Kiss (Eds.): Syntax - Theory and Analysis. 3 volumes. Berlin, 2015: Mouton de Gruyter. Volume 1 ISBN 978-3-11-037741-5 , Volume 2 ISBN 978-3-11-035866-7 , Volume 3 ISBN 978-3-11-036369-2
  • Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou, & Florian Schäfer: External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations. Oxford, 2015: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199571949

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Artemis Alexiadou (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 22, 2016.
  2. ^ Honorary doctors - NTNU


personal data
SURNAME Alexiadou, Artemis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek linguist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Volos , Greece