Panayiotis A. Pappas PhDLanguage Program
Hellenic Studies
Simon Fraser University
Activities in
Hellenic Studies: Coordinator of the Language Program for Hellenic
Studies at SFU. My responsibilities here include the organization
and teaching of courses in Greek, developing content for Odysseus, the online
tutor for Greek, directing the Field School in Kephalonia, Greece and other
administrative duties.
Research Interests: I am primarily interested in Language Variation and Change. In my dissertation, I investigated the pattern of weak object pronoun placement in Medieval Greek and the changes that have taken place. I am also interested in syntactic and morphological phenomena in general, issues in historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. My dissertation was published in 2004 (Variation and Morphosyntactic Change: from clitics to affixes ). Currently I am working on a brief grammatical sketch of Modern Greek (with Brian Joseph), and starting a project that will investigate the pattern of pronoun placement in Cypriot Greek.
Teaching: Click here for a list of courses
Research