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Ms. '''Efrosini Deligianni''' joined [[Future Worlds Center]] in September 2011 as an intern. | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Ms. Efrosini Deligianni has an extensive educational background on theoretical linguistics with a research interest on language change, discourse pragmatics and cognitive-linguistic processing. Her future research aspirations lie with a cognitive neuroscience of language. | |||
Ms Efrosini Deligianni has an extensive educational background on theoretical linguistics with a research interest on language change, discourse pragmatics and cognitive-linguistic processing. Her future research aspirations lie with a cognitive neuroscience of language. | |||
She is currently placed as an intern at the New Media Lab (NML) unit of FWC, which she joined with great enthousiasm since it combines the implementation of New Technologies in Language Learning, a fascinating and pioneering avenue of research, with an ultimate goal of imparting social change. | She is currently placed as an intern at the New Media Lab (NML) unit of FWC, which she joined with great enthousiasm since it combines the implementation of New Technologies in Language Learning, a fascinating and pioneering avenue of research, with an ultimate goal of imparting social change. | ||
The first project that she is more actively involved in is a proposal for a Youth in Action (YiA) programme under Subaction 1.3 on Youth Democracy Projects entitled “Using democratic dialogue to reinvent democracy”. | The first project that she is more actively involved in is a proposal for a Youth in Action (YiA) programme under Subaction 1.3 on Youth Democracy Projects entitled “Using democratic dialogue to reinvent democracy”. | ||
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==Education and Work Experience== | ==Education and Work Experience== | ||
Ms. Deligianni has earned a BA in English Language and Linguistics (combined major) from Lancaster University (UK) and a European MA in Linguistics from the University of Manchester (UK) and Freie Universität (Germany). She is currently completing her PhD on Greek Historical Linguistics at Lancaster University (UK). Her work experience revolves around foreign language teaching (English; Ancient and Modern Greek) and translation (English to Modern Greek and vice versa). | |||
==Skills, Interests and Achievements== | ==Skills, Interests and Achievements== | ||
Due to her education and training, she possesses excellent research and writing skills, organizational and interpersonal aptitude (in the organizing committee of two postgraduate conferences in Linguistics), as well as linguistic competence in English and German. | Due to her education and training, she possesses excellent research and writing skills, organizational and interpersonal aptitude (in the organizing committee of two postgraduate conferences in Linguistics), as well as linguistic competence in English and German. | ||
Her general interests include dance (choreography/participation in dance performances), wine and gastronomy, black and white art photography, as well as cinema (short films and documentaries). | Her general interests include dance (choreography/participation in dance performances), wine and gastronomy, black and white art photography, as well as cinema (short films and documentaries). | ||
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==Publications (academic)== | ==Publications (academic)== | ||
* Deligianni, E. “Hyperbaton”. In Giannakis, G. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden, the Netherlands: BRILL (forthcoming, February 2012). | |||
* Deligianni, E. (submitted). “Modern Greek word order in the process of syntacticization: preliminary evidence from Late Byzantine and Early Modern Greek”. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Greek Linguistics (ICGL 9), Chicago USA, 29-31 October 2009. | |||
* Deligianni, E. (2011). “Pragmatic factors that determine main clause constituent order in Greek: a diachronic consideration”. In E. Kitis, N. Lavidas, N. Topintzi, and T. Tsangalidis (eds.), Selected Papers from the 19th International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, English department, Aristotle University. Thessaloniki: Monochromia, 163-73. | |||
* Croft, W. & E. Deligianni. “Assymetries in NP word order”. International Symposium on Deictic Systems and Quantification in Languages Spoken in Europe and Northern and Central Asia, Udmurt State, Izhevsk, Russia, May 2001. | |||
==References== | |||
[ | Publications are available at [http://www.unm.edu/~wcroft/Papers/NPorder.pdf] | ||
