Department of Linguistics

Introduction

The Department of Linguistics offers undergraduate students who wish to specialize in linguistics a broad range of relevant introductory courses, including courses in phonology and phonetics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, lexicology and lexicography, historical-comparative linguistics, and Balkan linguistics.

At the postgraduate level, the Department offers programs of study leading to postgraduate diplomas in (a) Theoretical Linguistics, (b) Applied Linguistics, or (c) Historical and Balkan Linguistics, and provides supervision for doctoral research in the same fields.

Since 1980, the Department organizes annually an international meeting devoted to the linguistic study of Greek, and publishes its proceedings under the title “Studies in Greek Linguistics”.

For information on the work and research interests of the Department’s academic staff members, please visit their individual web pages, linked to their names in the list below.

Staff