KIKI NIKIFORIDOU
Kiki Nikiforidou is Professor Emerita since 2024. She received her B.A. in classics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and her M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests lie in the areas of Construction Grammar, cognitive semantics, grammaticalization, and lexicography. Her recent research focuses on the relationship of grammar to discourse and grammatical approaches to genre. She has authored numerous articles in these areas and co-edited volumes on Construction Grammar (the most recent are the Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar and Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective, both in 2025), Frame Semantics, and language change (see Publications). She has taught courses in (introductory) Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Lexicography, Lexical Semantics (graduate course), and Construction Grammar (graduate course). She is currently a member of the scientific team of PredictMe, a three-year Elidek funded project on the predictability of semantic change.
She was co-editor-in-chief of Constructions and Frames (John Benjamins) from 2009 to 2020 and is a member of the board of the journal from 2020 until today. She has given many invited talks at international and Greek conferences (see Curriculum Vitae). She is a member of ICLA (International Cognitive Linguistics Association), IPrA, and SLE.