CHRYSSOULA LASCARATOU

Chryssoula Lascaratou is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the Faculty of English Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She was Head of the Department of Language and Literature in 1996-1997 and 2008-2010 as well as Director of the Faculty Library from 1998 till she retired in 2017. She studied English Language and Literature (BA) at the University of Athens, and Linguistics (MA and Ph.D.) at the University of Reading in the UK. Her areas of specialisation are Morphology, Syntax (Generative Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar), Corpus Linguistics, Language Typology, Contrastive Linguistics, and Error Analysis. Her research interests include the analysis of aspects of Greek and English grammar, the study of the linguistic manifestation of pain –and emotions in general– within a functional and cognitive framework, as well as the investigation of grammatical phenomena and their implementation in the teaching of Greek as a foreign language to minority Muslim (chiefly Turkish speaking) pupils living in Northern Greece. Her publications include the books A Functional Approach to Constituent Order with Particular Reference to Modern Greek: Implications for Language Learning and Language Teaching (Athens: Parousia Journal Monograph Series, Vol. 5) (1989); Performance Principles in Word Order Variation (Athens: Parousia Journal Monograph Series, Vol. 29) (1994); The Language of Pain: Expression or Description? (Amsterdam: John Benjamins) (2007), and the studies: ‘Basic characteristics of Modern Greek word order’, in A. Siewierska (ed.) Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter) (1998); ‘Pain as process in Modern Greek: The case of ponao’ (with O. Hatzidaki), Journal of Greek Linguistics 3 (2002); «Ρήμα – άμεσο αντικείμενο: Ένας άρρηκτος δεσμός» (‘Verb – direct object: An unbreakable bond’) (with M. Georgiafentis), in D. Theophanopoulou-Kontou et al. (eds.) Σύγχρονες Τάσεις στην Ελληνική Γλωσσολογία: Μελέτες Αφιερωμένες στην Ειρήνη Φιλιππάκη-Warburton (Current Trends in Greek Linguistics: Essays in Honour of Irene Philippaki-Warburton) (Athens: Patakis) (2003); ‘Metaphor in Greek pain-constructions: Cognitive and functional perspectives’ (with S. Marmaridou), in S. Marmaridou et al. (eds.) Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Converging Trends for the 21st Century (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter) (2005); «Βασικά χαρακτηριστικά της σειράς των προτασιακών όρων στην Ελληνική και στην Τουρκική» (‘Basic characteristics of word order in Greek and Turkish’) (with M. Georgiafentis), in S. Moschonas (ed.) Η Σύνταξη στη Διδασκαλία/Μάθηση της Ελληνικής ως Ξένης Γλώσσας (Syntax in the Teaching and Learning of Greek as a Foreign Language) (Athens: Patakis) (2006); ‘On the inherently close relation of the verb and its direct object in ditransitive constructions: Evidence from Greek’ (with M. Georgiafentis), Journal of Greek Linguistics 8 (2007); «Η μεταφορά στην ορολογία της Γενετικής-Μετασχηματιστικής Γραμματικής» (‘Metaphor in the terminology of Generative-Transformational Grammar’) (with S. Koutsoulelou), in Department of Linguistics of the University of Athens (eds.) Γλωσσικός Περίπλους: Μελέτες αφιερωμένες στη Δήμητρα Θεοφανοπούλου-Κοντού (Linguistic Periplus: Essays in Honour of Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou (Athens: Kardamitsa) (2007); ‘The function of language in the experience of pain’ and ‘Tracking pain and joy: Breaching boundaries, bridging fields’ (with A. Despotopoulou & E. Ifantidou), in C. Lascaratou et al. (eds.) Reconstructing Pain and Joy: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing) (2008); «Η λειτουργία της γλώσσας στη βιωματική εμπειρία του πόνου σε διαλόγους θεραπευτών–ασθενών» (The function of language in the experiential domain of pain in doctor–patient dialogues’), in Ν. Tsitsanoudi-Mallidi (ed.) Διαχείριση του πόνου στα ΜΜΕ – Κοινωνιογλωσσολογικές και άλλες παράμετροι (Administrating pain in the mass media – Sociolinguistic and other parameters) (Athens: Propombos) (2012); ‘Word order flexibility and adjacency preferences: Competing forces and tension in the Greek VP’ (with M. Georgiafentis) and ‘Words in order: Introduction’ (with M. Georgiafentis), Journal of Greek Linguistics 13 (2013); ‘Communicating pain through language: From metaphor to empathy’, first part of chapter 11 ‘Can pain and suffering be shared through language?’ (with Lambros Couloubaritsis), in S. Bustan (ed.) Fundamental Transdisciplinary Questions on Suffering and Pain (New York: Springer) (in press). Finally, she has co-edited the following volumes: (with D. Theophanopoulou-Kontou, M. Sifianou, M. Georgiafentis, & V. Spyropoulos) the Festschrift Σύγχρονες Τάσεις στην Ελληνική Γλωσσολογία: Μελέτες Αφιερωμένες στην Ειρήνη Φιλιππάκη-Warburton (Current Trends in Greek Linguistics: Essays in Honour of Irene Philippaki-Warburton) (Athens: Patakis) (2003); (with A. Despotopoulou & E. Ifantidou) the volume Reconstructing Pain and Joy: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing) (2008) and (as Guest Editor with M. Georgiafentis) the special thematic issue 13 (2) ‘Words in Order’ of the Journal of Greek Linguistics, Festschrift in honour of Irene Philippaki-Warburton (Leiden: Brill) (2013).