People: Faculty

Dr. Panayiotis Pappas

778-782-5514
panayiotis_pappas@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8310

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Research Areas

  Syntax and Semantics
  Morphology
  Historical Linguistics

Associate Professor, received his PhD from The Ohio State University. His dissertation research examined the placement of weak object pronouns in the popular texts of Later Medieval Greek. Dr Pappas' research interests are mainly in the areas of historical linguistics, language variation and change, morphology, and syntax, but he is also interested in issues of language contact, Balkan linguistics and the teaching of Modern Greek. He is currently working on the historical development of clitics in the dialects of Modern Greek, and a concise grammatical sketch of Modern Greek (with Brian D. Joseph).

Recent publications include:

• "Concrete Contexts of Morphosyntactic Change" (Penn Working Papers of Linguistics-selected papers from NWAV 30, 2002)
• "The imperative and weak object pronoun placement in Later Medieval Greek" (Studies in Greek Linguistics 22, 2002)
• "On some recent views concerning the development of the Greek future system" (Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2002-with Brian D. Joseph)
• "The microcosm of a morphological change: variation in thelo+infinitive futures and ethela+infinitive counterfactuals in Early Modern Greek" (Diachronica 18, 2001).