Elena Anagnostopoulou (born 27 January 1967 in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

, Greece) is a Greek theoretical linguist and syntactician. She is currently Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the

University of Crete The University of Crete (UoC; Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης) is a multi-disciplinary, research-oriented institution in Crete, Greece, located in the cities of Rethymno (official seat) and Heraklion, and one of the country's most aca ...

Education and career

Anagnostopoulou received her PhD in 1994 from the

University of Salzburg The University of Salzburg (german: Universität Salzburg), also known as the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (''Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg'', PLUS), is an Austrian public university A public university or public college is a univ ...

. Following this, she held a postdoctoral position at the

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from 1997 to 1998, before taking up a position as assistant professor at the University of Crete in 1998, where she remains to this day. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and to full professor in 2009. In 2007 she returned to MIT as a visiting associate professor. Anagnostopoulou works within the framework 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 ...

, and is known for her work 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) ...

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines * Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts * Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies ...

, and

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: # to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages # ...

. Within these fields she has focused on the phenomena of case,

agreement Agreement may refer to: Agreements between people and organizations * Gentlemen's agreement, not enforceable by law * Trade agreement, between countries * Consensus, a decision-making process * Contract, enforceable in a court of law ** Meeting o ...

person A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, ...

, argument structure, and

clitic In morphology and syntax, a clitic (, backformed from Greek "leaning" or "enclitic"Crystal, David. ''A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics''. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980. Print.) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a w ...

Honours and awards

Anagnostopoulou was awarded a

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the sun to another star by the method ...

Research Award by the

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (german: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) is a foundation established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Resear ...

in 2013. In 2019 she was elected a member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

Selected works

* Alexiadou, Artemis & Elena Anagnostopoulou: 'Parameterizing AGR: Word order, V-movement and EPP-checking.' ''Natural Language & Linguistic Theory'' 16 (1998), 491–539. * Iatridou, Sabine, Elena Anagnostopoulou & Roumyana Izvorski: 'Observations about the form and meaning of the perfect.' In Michael Kenstowicz (ed.), ''Ken Hale: A Life in Language'', 189–238. Cambridge, MA, 2001: MIT Press. * Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers & Hans-Martin Gärtner (eds.): ''Dimensions of Movement: from Features to Remnants.'' Amsterdam, 2002: John Benjamins. * Anagnostopoulou, Elena: ''The syntax of ditransitives: Evidence from clitics.'' Berlin, 2003: Mouton de Gruyter. * Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou & Martin Everaert (eds.): ''The Unaccusativity Puzzle.'' Oxford, 2004: Oxford University Press. * Anagnostopoulou, Elena: 'Strong and weak person restrictions: A feature checking analysis.' In Lorie Heggie & Francisco Ordóñez (eds.), ''Clitic and affix combinations: Theoretical perspectives'', 199–235. Amsterdam, 2005: John Benjamins. * Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou & Florian Schäfer: ''External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations.'' Oxford, 2015: Oxford University Press.

References

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