Efrosini (Frosso) Deligianni

Period at FWC Sep 2011- present Local Mentor Elena Aristodemou

Ms. Efrosini Deligianni joined Future Worlds Center in September 2011 as an intern.

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 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”.

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

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. “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 [1]