Bioblurb
Kiki Nikiforidou is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English,
University of Athens. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of California at Berkeley. Her academic interests are in the areas of construction
grammar, cognitive linguistics, grammaticalization, and lexicography. Her present
research focuses on the relation of grammar to discourse - she is currently writing a
book on dicoursally motivated constructions and the integration of discoursal
categories in grammatical description.
She has taught courses in cognitive semantics, construction grammar,
lexicography, and historical linguistics/grammaticalization. From 2003 to 2009 she
was on the administrative committee and taught courses in the interdepartmental MA
program “Lexicography: Theory and Applications” (jointly funded by the ministry of
Education and the EU).
She is co-editor of Constructions and Frames, an international peer-reviewed
journal
published
by
John
Benjamins
(http://www.benjamins.com/cgibin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=CF). She has been a reviewer for the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th
International Cognitive Linguistics Conferences and for ICCG 6, and for the journals
Pragmatics and Cognition and Pragmatics.
Selected publications
BOOKS
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(1999) D. Katis, M. Kondilis, K. Nikiforidou (eds.) Γλώσσα και Νόηση:
Επιστημονικές και Φιλοσοφικές Προσεγγίσεις (Language and Cognition: Scientific
and Philosophical Perspectives). Athens: Alexandria.
(2004) Kiki Nikiforidou Grammatical meaning and construal. A cognitive
linguistic approach. Parousia Journal Monograph Series 61. Athens: University of
Athens.
(2005) S. Marmaridou, K. Nikiforidou, E. Antonopoulou (eds.) Reviewing
linguistic thought: Converging trends for the 21st century. Berlin/New York:
Mouton de Gruyter.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
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(1991) "The Meanings of the genitive: A case study in semantic structure and
semantic change". Cognitive Linguistics 2-2. 149-205.
(1996) "Modern Greek as: A case study in grammaticalization and
grammatical polysemy". Studies in Language 20-3. 599-632.
(2002) (with Ε.Antonopoulou) "Deictic motion and the adoption of
perspective in Greek". Pragmatics 12-3. 273-295.
(2005) “Conceptual blending and the interpretation of relatives: A case study
from Greek”. Cognitive Linguistics 16-1. 169-206.
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(2010) (with D. Katis) “Indeterminacy in grammar and acquisition: an
interdisciplinary approach to relative clauses”. Review of Cognitive
Linguistics 8:1. 1-18.
(to appear in 2010) “Viewpoint and construction grammar: The case of past +
now”. Language and Literature 19:3.
(to appear in 2010) (with R. T. Cacoullos) “Variably future-marked
conditionals in Greek: Integrating discourse and grammar”. Constructions and
Frames 2:1. 90-123.
(forthcoming) (with E. Antonopoulou) “Construction grammar and
conventional discourse: A construction-based approach to discoursal
incongruity”
ARTICLES IN REFEREED VOLUMES (in English)
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(1994) (with A. Ph. Christidis). “Structural and crosslinguistic regularities in
the history of three particles”. In Themes in Greek Linguistics. Current Issues
in Linguistic Theory 117. Ιrene Philippaki, Κaterina Nicolaidis and Μary
Sifianou (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 169-176.
(1998) “Metaphors of silence”. In Anatomies of Silence: Selected Papers from
the Second HASE International Conference, Parousia Journal Monograph
Series 44, Αnna Cacoullou and Mary Sifianou (eds.). Athens: Parousia. 279287.
(1999) “Nominalizations, metonymy and lexicographic practice”. In Issues in
Cognitive Linguistics: 1993 Proceedings of the International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference, Leon de Stadler and Christoph Eyrich (eds.). Berlin,
New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 141-163.
(2000) (with D. Katis) “Subjectivity and conditionality: The marking of
speaker involvement in Modern Greek”. In Constructions in Cognitive
Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 178, Αd Foolen and Frederike
van Der Leek (eds.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 217-237.
(2002) “Η Πραγματολογία της Που Αναφορικής Δομής”. Recherches en
Linguistique Grecque, Christos Clairis (ed.). Paris: L’ Harmattan. 123-126.
(2006) “Subjective construal and factual interpretation in sentential
complements”. In A. Athanasiadou, B. Cornillie, C. Canakis (eds.),
Subjectification: Various paths to subjectivity, 347-374. Berlin/New York:
Mouton de Gruyter.
(2007) “The construction of meaning in relative clauses: Indeterminacy and
constraints”. In G. Radden, K. M. Kopcke, T. Berg, P. Siemund (eds.), Aspects
of meaning construction, 189-205. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
(2007) “Language change”. In A.-F. Christidis (ed.), A History of Ancient
Greek language: From the beginnings to late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
(2007) “As: An example of syntactic change”. In A.-F. Christidis (ed.), A
History of Ancient Greek language: From the beginnings to late antiquity.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2009) “Constructional Analysis”. In F. Brisard, J.-O. Őstman, J. Verschueren
(eds.), Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, [Handbook of Pragmatics
Highlights 5], 16-32. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
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(2009) (with E. Antonopoulou) “Deconstructing verbal humour with
Construction Grammar”. In G. Brône, J. Vandaele (eds.), Cognitive Poetics:
Goals, Gains and Gaps, 289-314. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
(to appear) (with E. Antonopoulou) “Construction grammar and discoursal
incongruity”. In G. Brône, K. Feyaerts & T. Veale (eds.), Cognitive
Linguistics Meets Humor Research: Current trends and new developments.
Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
(to appear) “The constructional underpinnings of viewpoint blends: The Past
+ now in language and literature”. In B. Dancygier & E. Sweetser (eds.),
Viewpoint and Perspective in Language and Gesture. CUP.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED VOLUMES (in Greek) – see author’s webpage (under
construction)