Angela Ralli is a

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

, morphologist and

dialectologist Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , '' -logia'') is the scientific study of dialects: subsets of languages. Though in the 19th century a branch of historical linguistics, dialectology is often now considered a sub-fiel ...

Biography

Ralli received her BA, MA and PhD in linguistics from the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

. From 1985 to 1990 she worked on the Greek section of the Eurotra project. In 1990 she took up a post at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; , ''Ethnikó kai Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses alo ...

, first as a lecturer and then (from 1994) as assistant professor. In 1997 she moved to the

University of Patras The University of Patras (UPatras; , ''Panepistímio Patrón'', ΠΠ) is a public university in Patras, Greece. It is the third-largest university in Greece with respect to the size of the student body, the staff, and the number of department ...

as associate professor, becoming promoted to full professor in 2001. Ralli has held visiting positions at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...

(1996),

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and

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(2003), the

Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (, , abbr. KVAB) is an independent learned society of science and arts of the Flemish Community in Belgium. It is one of Belgium's numerous academies and traces its origin to 1772 when ...

(2008 and 2014),

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

(2012), UQAM (2017), and

Saint Petersburg State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBGU; ) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the Great, the university from the be ...

(2020). In 2013 she was elected as a member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...

Research

Ralli is known for her work in morphological theory, and has worked extensively on morphological variation and change, including

language contact Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. Language contact can occur at language borders, between adstratum ...

. She founded the Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects in 2000, serving as its director until 2020. She also developed Greece's first electronic linguistic atlas, focusing on the dialect of

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Selected publications

* Nespor, Marina, and Angela Ralli. 1996. Morphology–phonology interface: Phonological domains in Greek compounds. ''The Linguistic Review'' 13, 357–382. * Ralli, Angela. 2000. A feature-based analysis of Greek nominal inflection. ''Glossologia'' 11–12, 201–227. * Ralli, Angela. 2002. The role of morphology in gender determination: evidence from Modern Greek. ''Linguistics'' 40, 519–551. * Ralli, Angela. 2003. Morphology in Greek linguistics: the state of the art. ''Journal of Greek Linguistics'' 4, 77–129. * Ralli, Angela. 2008. Compound markers and parametric variation. ''Language Typology and Universals'' 61, 19–38. * Ralli, Angela. 2012. ''Compounding in Modern Greek''. Dordrecht: Springer.

References

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