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Senior Lecturer (English Language & Linguistics)

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 5754
Email : E.Sifaki@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Media, Culture and Language
Office location : Queen's Building 129

About

My area of research is Syntax within the Minimalist Framework (Chomsky 1995 and subsequent work). I am particularly interested on the featural status of the E(xtended) P(rojection) P(rinciple) in interaction with the properties attested in Null Subject Languages, a subject which was investigated during my PhD entitled : `EPP-Satisfiers: Verb- Initial Orders in Greek'.

Research Interests

- The Syntax of the Balkan Languages

- Syntax -Semantics Interface within the Minimalist Program

- Word Order Alternations in correlation with intonation patterns and information- structure properties (background vs. new information)

- The interaction of the language components in the language faculty

Teaching Interests

I have taught a number of courses in Theoretical Linguistics including Syntax, Morphology, Meaning in Language.