Abstract
In this talk, I will examine certain novel grammatical patterns found in Heritage Greek and address the following questions: What do these innovations teach us about the non-heritage variety and how do they inform theories of language change?
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Mini-bio
Artemis Alexiadou is Professor of English Linguistics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Vice Director of Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin. Her research is concerned with the syntax and morphology of noun phrases and argument alternations. She is a Gottfried-Wilhelm Leibniz Prizewinner 2014, awarded by the German Research Foundation, and Co-PI of the ERC Synergy Grant Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind (together with Uli Sauerland and Maria Teresa Guasti).