Professor 

Contact

School of Philosophy, Office 601, University Campus at Zografou,157-84 - Athens, Greece

e-mail: vspyrop[at]phil.uoa[dot]gr, Tel.: +30 210 727 7646

Personal webpage: http://scholar.uoa.gr/vspyrop/home

Curriculum Vitae

Research interests

• Theoretical linguistics: Syntax, morphology, morphosyntax and interfaces with phonology
• Grammatical description of languages with emphasis on morphology and syntax
• Comparative linguistics and typology: syntactic and morphological structures, typology of the relationship between syntax, morphology and phonology
• Historical linguistics: typology and explanation of language change, history of Greek with emphasis on the Hellenistic-Roman Koine and the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine periods
• Dialectology: Documentation and description of Greek dialectal varieties, morphology and syntax of Asia Minor Greek dialects
• Language contact: Structural and historical aspects

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

• Structure of Modern Greek: Syntax (ΚΦΓ27 / ΜΦΓ27, 4^th Semester)
• Syntax I (ΓΦΓ05, 4^th Semester)
• Syntax II (ΓΦΓ11, 6^th Semester)
• Thesis (ΓΦΓ21+ΓΦΓ33, 8^th Semester)

Postgraduate courses

• Syntax (Postgraduate Program in Linguistics)
• Morphology (Postgraduate Program in Linguistics)

Publications

Books

• Revithiadou, Anthi & Vassilios Spyropoulos. 2013. A Comparative Study of Albanian – Greek Grammatical Structures. Project ‘Education of Immigrant and Repatriate Students’, Operational Program of Education and Lifelong Learning (NSRF 2007-2013). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Publications, Research Committee, Thessaloniki. [E-book, edited volume, URL: http://www.diapolis.auth.gr/index.php/2013-10-17-09-02-51/-52)
• Holton David, Peter Mackridge, Irene Philippaki-Warburton & Vassilios Spyropoulos. 2012. Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar. Second Revised Edition. London: Routledge.
• Revithiadou, Anthi & Vassilios Spyropoulos. 2012. Οφίτικα: Πτυχές της Γραμματικής Δομής μίας Ποντιακής Διαλέκτου [Ofitika: Aspects of the Grammatical Structure of a Pontic Dialect]. Thessaloniki: Kyriakidis Bros.
• Spyropoulos, Vassilios & Anastasios Tsangalidis. 2005. Η Γραμματική στη Διδασκαλία: Σύγκριση Εγχειριδίων για τη Διδασκαλία της Ελληνικής ως Ξένης Γλώσσας [Grammar in Language Teaching: A Comparative Evaluation of the Textbooks for Teaching Greek as a Foreign Language]. Athens: Patakis.

Articles (Selection of 10 recent publications)

• Steriopolo, Olga, Giorgos Markopoulos & Vassilios Spyropoulos. 2021. A morphosyntactic analysis of nominal expressive suffixes in Russian and Greek. The Linguistic Review 38: 645-686.
• Revithiadou, Anthi & Vassilios Spyropoulos. 2020. Cliticization patterns in Greek: A comparative examination with crosslinguistic remarks. In Michalis Georgiafentis, Giannoula Giannoulopoulou, Maria Koliopoulou & Angeliki Tsokoglou (eds.), Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax, 225-245. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
• Spyropoulos, Vassilios. 2020. Abstract and morphological case in a nominative – accusative system with differential case marking. In András Bárány & Laura Kalin (eds.), Case, Agreement, and their Interactions: New Perspectives on Differential Argument Marking, 175-218. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Revithiadou, Anthi, Giorgos Markopoulos & Vassilios Spyropoulos. 2019. Changing shape according to strength: Evidence from root allomorphy in Greek. The Linguistic Review 36: 553-574.
• Panagiotidis, Phoevos, Vassilios Spyropoulos & Anthi Revithiadou. 2017. Little v as a categorizing verbal head: Evidence from Greek. In Roberta d’ Alessandro, Irene Franco & Ángel J. Gallego (eds.), The Verbal Domain, 29-48. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Revithiadou, Anthi, Vassilios Spyropoulos & Giorgos Markopoulos. 2017. From fusion to agglutination: The case of Asia Minor Greek. Transactions of the Philological Society 115: 297-335.
• Revithiadou, Anthi & Vassilios Spyropoulos. 2016. Stress at the interface: Phases, accents and dominance. Linguistic Analysis 42: 1-71.
• Spyropoulos, Vassilios, Anthi Revithiadou & Phoevos Panagiotidis. 2015. Verbalizers leave marks: Evidence from Greek. Morphology 25: 299-325.
• Jiménez-Fernández, Ángel L. & Vassilios Spyropoulos. 2013. Feature inheritance, vP phases and the information structure of small clauses. Studia Linguistica 67: 185-224.
• Spyropoulos, Vassilios. 2011. Case conflict in Greek free relatives: Case in syntax and morphology. In Alexandra Galani, Glyn Hicks & George Tsoulas (eds.), Morphology and its Ιnterfaces, 21-55. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.