Efrosini (Frosso) Deligianni

Efrosini (Frosso) Deligianni With FWC Sep 2011- present Title Project Coordinator Research Associate Key Project(s) Reinventing democracy (YiA 1.3) MediaMDGs Degree(s) PhD,MA,BA Filed(s) of study Linguistics University(ies) Lancaster University (UK) University of Manchester (UK) Freie Universität (Germany)

Ms. Efrosini Deligianni joined Future Worlds Center in September 2011, originally as an intern and between March and the summer of 2012 as member of the TeachMDGs project. During her stay as intern, she collaborated with Eleni Michail and Yiannis Laouris in drafting and securing funding for Reinventing democracy (YiA 1.3)

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. She was first 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 involved in a Youth in Action (YiA) programme under Subaction 1.3 on Youth Democracy Projects entitled “Using democratic dialogue to reinvent democracy”. She is also a member of the TeachMDGs project team.

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 has recently completed 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

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). As a postgraduate student, she was awarded the Mont Follick Fund and an Erasmus grant from the University of Manchester.

Publications (academic)

• Deligianni, E. “The interaction between Jespersen’s cycle and negation in Greek”. In M.-B. Mosegaard Hansen & J. Visconti (eds.), Diachrony of Negation. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins (forthcoming).

• Deligianni, E. “Hyperbaton”. In Giannakis, G. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden, the Netherlands: BRILL (forthcoming).

• Deligianni, E. (2011). “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

Selected publications are available here:
Asymmetries in NP word order
Modern Greek word order in the process of syntacticization