Department of Philology // University of Patras

Research Interests

The research interests of the teaching staff of the Linguistics Section cover all the most important branches of General Linguistics and are focussed particularly on:

Angeliki Ralli (Mrs), Professor

  • Theoretical Morphology
  • Morphology - Syntax Interface
  • Morphology - Phonology Interface
  • Dialectology
  • Historic Morphology
  • Computational Morphology
  • Word formation in the Mental Lexicon

Anna Roussou (Ms), Associate Professor

  • Comparative Syntax
  • Diachronic Syntax
  • The relationships between Syntax and Semantics
  • The relationships between Syntax and Morphology
  • Language Acquisition and Learning

Argyris Archakis (Mr) (Assistant Professor)

  • Analysis of Students' Discourse
  • Analysis of School Interactions
  • Analysis of Youth Conversational Narratives
  • Analysis of Journalistic and Parliamentary Language
  • Analysis of Attitudes towards Dialects and Minority Languages
  • Oracy and Literacy
  • Electronic Databases

George J. Xydopoulos (Mr), Assistant Professor

  • Lexicology
  • Structure of the Lexicon
  • Structure and Meaning of the Word
  • Structure and Organisation of Special Vocabularies
  • Scientific Terminology and Terminology Translation
  • Lexical Semantics: Sense Relations
  • The Relationship between Syntax and Semantics: Tense, Aspect and Adverbials
  • Research Methodology in Linguistics: Linguistics Research and Teaching, Linguistics in School Education and in the Job Market

Dimitris Papazachariou (Mr), Assistant Professor

  • Language Variety in Modern Greek dialects
  • Language change in Modern Greek dialects
  • Phonetic and Phonological Analysis
  • Intonation

Io Manolessou (Ms), Lecturer

  • Historical Linguistics
  • History of the Greek Language
  • Historical Dialectology