Elena Anagnostopoulou
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Elena Anagnostopoulou | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 January 1967 Athens, Greece |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Salzburg (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Institutions | University of Crete |
Elena Anagnostopoulou (born 27 January 1967 in Athens, Greece)[1] is a Greek theoretical linguist and syntactician. She is currently Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Crete.[2]
Anagnostopoulou received her PhD in 1994 from the University of Salzburg. Following this, she held a postdoctoral position at the MIT from 1997 to 1998, before taking up a position as assistant professor at the University of Crete in 1998, where she remains to this day. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and to full professor in 2009. In 2007 she returned to MIT as a visiting associate professor.
Anagnostopoulou works within the framework of generative grammar, and is known for her work in syntax, morphology, and historical linguistics. Within these fields she has focused on the phenomena of case, agreement, person, argument structure, and clitics.[3]
