Artemis Alexiadou (Άρτεμις Αλεξιάδου, born 13 February 1969 in

Volos Volos ( el, Βόλος ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the sixth most populous city of Greece, and the capital of the Magnesia regional unit ...

) is a Greek linguist active in

syntax In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituency) ...

research working in Germany. She is professor of English linguistics at the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

Education

Alexiadou began her studies in

Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

at the age of 17 at the

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

. After graduating in 1990, Alexiadou undertook a master's degree at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

and then continued on to the

Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Zentrum is German for centre. Zentrum is also a brand name for the amino acid Arginine 1200 mg. Zentrum may also refer to: * BMW Zentrum, a BMW museum in Spartanburg, South Carolina * Center (group theory), the centre of a group, denoted Z( ...

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

. In 1994 Alexiadou gained a PhD from the

University of Potsdam The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace of Sanssouci which is known ...

and also passed her Habilitation there in 1999.

Career

After gaining a habilitation, Alexiadou researched at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

and the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

on a Heisenberg fellowship and was guest professor in Tübingen and Potsdam. From 2002 until 2015 Alexiadou was Professor for theoretical and English linguistics and head of the Institute of Linguistics at the

University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart (german: Universität Stuttgart) is a leading research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany wit ...

and also the project "Sonderforschungsbereich 732". Since 2015 Alexiadou has been professor for English linguistics at the

and is since October 1st 2022 the director of the

. Alexiadou is an important representative of

generative grammar Generative grammar, or generativism , is a linguistic theory that regards linguistics as the study of a hypothesised innate grammatical structure. It is a biological or biologistic modification of earlier structuralist theories of linguistic ...

in Europe and was president of the association "Generative Linguistics in the Old World" (GLOW) from 2005 until 2009. Most notably, she has written multiple seminal works on several topics in

. Alexiadou is especially known for her work and expertise on the syntactic structure of the

noun phrase In linguistics, a noun phrase, or nominal (phrase), is a phrase that has a noun or pronoun as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and they may be the most frequently oc ...

adverbs An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence. Adverbs typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty, etc., answering que ...

voice The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production in ...

and

roots A root is the part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors the plant body, and absorbs and stores water and nutrients. Root or roots may also refer to: Art, entertainment, and media * ''The Root'' (magazine), an online magazine focusing ...

Awards and honours

In 2014, she was awarded the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

, and in the same year, she was elected a member of the

German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...

. In 2016, the

Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

awarded Alexiadou an

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. She is a member of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Univer ...

Selected works

* Alexiadou, Artemis: ''Adverb placement: a case study in antisymmetric syntax.'' Amsterdam, 1997: John Benjamins. * Alexiadou, Artemis & T. Alan Hall (eds.): ''Studies in Universal Grammar and Typological Variation''. Amsterdam, 1997: John Benjamins. * Alexiadou, Artemis & Chris Wilder (eds.): ''Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the DP.'' Amsterdam, 1998: John Benjamins. * Alexiadou, Artemis, Geoffrey C. Horrocks & Melita Stavrou (eds.): ''Studies in Greek Syntax.'' Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Series. Dordrecht, 1999: Kluwer Academic Publishers. * Alexiadou, Artemis, Paul Law, André Meinunger & Chris Wilder (eds.): ''The Syntax of Relative Clauses.'' Amsterdam, 2000: John Benjamins. * Alexiadou, Artemis: ''Functional Structure in Nominals: Nominalization, and Ergativity.'' Amsterdam, 2001: John Benjamins. * Alexiadou, Artemis,

Elena Anagnostopoulou Elena Anagnostopoulou (born 27 January 1967 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek theoretical linguist and syntactician. She is currently Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Crete. Education and career Anagnostopoulou received he ...

, Sjef Barbiers & Hans-Martin Gärtner (eds.): ''Dimensions of Movement: from Features to Remnants.'' Amsterdam, 2002: John Benjamins. * Alexiadou, Artemis (Hrsg.): ''Theoretical Approaches to Universals.'' Amsterdam, 2002: John Benjamins. * Alexiadou, Artemis, Monika Rathert & Arnim von Stechow (eds.): ''Perfect Explorations.'' Berlin, 2003: Mouton de Gruyter. * Alexiadou, Artemis,

& Martin Everaert (eds.): ''The Unaccusativity Puzzle.'' Oxford, 2004: Oxford University Press. * Alexiadou, Artemis (ed.): ''Studies in the Morpho-syntax of Greek.'' Cambridge, 2007: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. * Alexiadou, Artemis, Liliane Haegeman & Melita Stavrou: ''Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective.'' Berlin, 2007: Mouton de Gruyter. * Alexiadou, Artemis, Jorge Hankamer, Justin Nugger, Thomas McFadden & Florian Schäfer: ''Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax.'' Amsterdam 2009: John Benjamins. * Alexiadou, Artemis & Monika Rathert (eds.): ''The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks.'' Berlin, 2010: Mouton de Gruyter. * Rathert, Monika & Artemis Alexiadou (eds.): ''The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks.'' Berlin, 2010: Mouton de Gruyter. * Alexiadou, Artemis, Tibor Kiss & Gereon Müller (eds.): ''Local Modelling of Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax.'' Berlin, 2012: Mouton de Gruyter. * Alexiadou, Artemis & Florian Schäfer (eds.): ''Non-Canonical Passives.'' Amsterdam, 2013: John Benjamins. * Alexiadou, Artemis, Hagit Borer & Florian Schäfer (eds.): ''The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax.'' Oxford, 2014: Oxford University Press. * Alexiadou, Artemis: ''Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs.'' Amsterdam, 2014: John Benjamins. * Alexiadou, Artemis & Tibor Kiss (eds.): ''Syntax – Theory and Analysis.'' 3 volumes. Berlin, 2015: Mouton de Gruyter. Band 1 , Band 2 , Band 3 * Alexiadou, Artemis,

, & Florian Schäfer: ''External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations.'' Oxford, 2015: Oxford University Press.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alexiadou, Artemis 1969 births Living people Linguists from Greece Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Greek expatriates in Germany Women linguists Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters People from Volos