MGSA Survey of Graduate Students

Konstantia Kapetangianni

Ph.D. Candidate

University of Michigan

Department of Linguistics

 

I. Degrees

M.A. 2003 Department of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University (Linguistics)

 

Translation Diploma 1995 French Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece

B.A. 1993 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (French Language and Literature)

 

II. Areas of Specialization

 

 Syntactic Theory - Principles and Parameters, Minimalism, Agreement, Control.

 

 Morpho- syntax of Modern Greek.

 

 Language Acquisition: especially syntactic development of children speaking null subject languages.                        

 

Bilingualism

 

Semantics

 

 

 

 

 

III. Principal Presentations and Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

Control in Greek: It’s another good move (Joint paper with Prof. T. Daniel Seely). Presented at the New Horizons in the Grammar of Raising and Control Workshop, LSA Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, 2005

 

On Control in Modern Greek: Explanation by Deduction; Agreement by Degrees (Joint paper with Prof. T. Daniel Seely). Presented at the 25th Annual Meeting on Greek Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, May, 2004

                                              

Subjunctives in Greek: Explanation by Deduction; Agreement by Degrees (Joint paper with Prof. T. Daniel Seely). Presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of Michigan Linguistic Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October, 2003.

                  

On Control in Modern Greek: Explanation by Deduction; Agreement by Degrees (Joint paper with Prof. T. Daniel Seely). Presented at the North American Syntax Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, May, 2003.

 

On Control in Modern Greek: Explanation by Deduction; Agreement by Degrees (Joint paper with Prof. T. Daniel Seely). Paper accepted at the Greek Syntax and the Minimalist Seduction workshop on Greek Syntax, University of Reading, UK, September 2002.

 

 Subjunctive Clauses in Modern Greek: A Challenge for Minimalism. MA Thesis, Eastern Michigan University, 2003.

 

 

IV. Office Address

Department of Linguistics

The University of Michigan

Undergraduate Science Building (USB)

            204 Washtenaw Avenue

            Ann Arbor, MI  48109-2215

 

 

 

 

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

   (no information submitted)

Electronic Address

  [email protected]

 

V. Home Address

3146 Primrose Lane

Ypsilanti, MI 48197

 

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(734) 973-0143

 

VI. Dissertation/Thesis working title and topic

 

 

 

VII. Comments and Additional Information

 

 

 

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Last revised 11/02/05