In this talk, I will discuss data from language mixing involving Greek in contact with English and German. I will show how the specific patterns we find provide support for a particular theory of morphology, namely one that rejects the idea that linguistic competence includes a lexicon as a repository of words collected with semantic and morphosyntactic properties. In particular, it will be shown that multilingual speakers combine abstract units (roots) with functional morphemes and they have more than one realization possibility at their disposal for these building blocks.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Artemis Alexiadou is Director of the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) and she holds an S-Professorship for "General Linguistics" at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU).
At ZAS and HU she is also Principal Investigator of the following projects:
- DFG ISF project Roots in context: a cross linguistic investigation
- DFG project SFB Register A10 Doubling and register variation within the framework of the CRC 1412 Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
- DFG project SFB Register A08 Speakers' choices in three Saamaka communities within the framework of the CRC 1412 Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
- DFG ANR project Boolean Connectives: Probing the Interplay Between Language and Logic
- Funded by the ERC Synergy Grant: LeibnizDream - Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind, principal investigators: Uli Sauerland (ZAS), Maria Teresa Guasti (Universität Mailand-Bicocca) and Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
At Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin she is head of the research group Experimental Syntax and Heritage Languages, funded by the Leibniz Prize 2014 (DFG).
Artemis Alexiadou conducts research in particular on the theory of syntax and morphology, on cross-linguistic variation and on so-called heritage languages.
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Datum und Uhrzeit: 16.06.2026, 17:00h - 18:30h
Ort: SR 33.3.082, Merangasse 70, 8010 Graz)
Teilnahme auch über Zoom möglich: https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/63576716067?pwd=dFbawaUO0aZe4tZyrc6emXb2beEvVc.1
Meeting-ID: 635 7671 6067
Kenncode: 077189