My first degree was in Philosophy, Education, and Psychology at the University of Athens. Subsequently, I did an MA and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland. My Ph.D. thesis ‘Issues on Modern Greek Sentential Complementation’ was concerned with the syntactic and semantic properties of sentential complements in Modern Greek, focusing mainly on factive vs. non-factive complements and on the control properties of subjunctive complements.
After finishing my Ph.D., I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS), University of Pennsylvania under an IRCS post-doctoral fellowship. While I was at IRCS, my research focused not only on syntax and the syntax-semantics interface but on language acquisition as well, investigating issues related to finiteness and functional categories in early child grammar. Subsequently, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the project 'Interface Conditions on Child Language: A Crosslinguistic Look at Some Aspects of Possession' at the Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Crain. The objective of the project was to determine the extent to which correspondence conditions that hold between certain semantic relations and certain syntactic structures derive from Universal Grammar, or are ‘learned’ by children in response to input from caretakers and others.
Between 1997-2000, I taught postgraduate courses on Syntax and Language Acquisition at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, University of Athens under an ‘A.S. Onassis’ Fellowship and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the State Scholarship Foundation of the Hellenic Republic.
From 2000-2003, I taught as a Lecturer at the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, University of Reading, and from 2003-2009, as an Associate Professor at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean. Since September 2009, I am Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, University of Athens. I work on language acquisition, combining theoretical linguistics with language assessment and study of typical and atypical populations, as well as on acquired language disorders such as aphasia.
After finishing my Ph.D., I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS), University of Pennsylvania under an IRCS post-doctoral fellowship. While I was at IRCS, my research focused not only on syntax and the syntax-semantics interface but on language acquisition as well, investigating issues related to finiteness and functional categories in early child grammar. Subsequently, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the project 'Interface Conditions on Child Language: A Crosslinguistic Look at Some Aspects of Possession' at the Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Crain. The objective of the project was to determine the extent to which correspondence conditions that hold between certain semantic relations and certain syntactic structures derive from Universal Grammar, or are ‘learned’ by children in response to input from caretakers and others.
Between 1997-2000, I taught postgraduate courses on Syntax and Language Acquisition at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, University of Athens under an ‘A.S. Onassis’ Fellowship and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the State Scholarship Foundation of the Hellenic Republic.
From 2000-2003, I taught as a Lecturer at the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, University of Reading, and from 2003-2009, as an Associate Professor at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean. Since September 2009, I am Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, University of Athens. I work on language acquisition, combining theoretical linguistics with language assessment and study of typical and atypical populations, as well as on acquired language disorders such as aphasia.
Contact
Address:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Faculty of Philology
Department of Linguistics
Panepistimioupoli
157 84 Zografou, Athens
Greece
Tel.: +30 210 7277642
Fax: +30 210 7277855
Email: svarlokosta(at)phil.uoa.gr
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Faculty of Philology
Department of Linguistics
Panepistimioupoli
157 84 Zografou, Athens
Greece
Tel.: +30 210 7277642
Fax: +30 210 7277855
Email: svarlokosta(at)phil.uoa.gr
