Thomadaki Evangelia

Evangelia Thomadaki is currently Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Democritus University of Thrace, School of Humanities.
She graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1984), completed an MA in Linguistics at the University of Cologne (1987) and received her PhD from the N. & K. University of Athens (1995) (PhD thesis: Morphologika provlimata tis Neoellinikis: I klisi ton ousiastikon [Issues in Modern Greek morphology: noun inflection]). Her published work includes monographs, contributions to volumes and linguistic journals, edited volumes, papers in conference proceedings and a coauthored pedagogical grammar.
She has taught at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1996/97 – 1998/99 as a Teaching Staff member (on secondment from her high – school position) for the Interdepartmental Post Graduate Programm on Teaching Greek as a second/foreign language and 2002-2003 as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of Preschool Education,) and at the University of Crete (1998/9 – 2001/2, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of Philology), prior to her appointment (in 2003) as an Assistant Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Language, Literature and Culture of the Black Sea Countries.
Main research areas: grammatical structure and in particular, morphology and morphophonology (inflectional paradigms, allomorphy, defectiveness, grammatical gender, pluralia tantum, derivational patterns, productivity, compounding), morphology in first language acquisition (diminutives, compounding, lexical development), grammaticalization, second/ foreign language acquisition and learning/teaching, typology (research on adjectives), comparative linguistic research, language contact in the Balkans and language change.
Selected Publications:
Thomadaki, E. 1988. Neugriechische Wortbildung. Arbeitspapier Nr. 8, Institut fuer Sprachwissenschaft, Univ. zu Koeln. Available at: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24324
Thomadaki, E. 1997.Thematic vowels in MGk substantive inflection. In: Drachman, G. et al. (Eds), Greek Linguistics 95, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Greek Linguistics (Salzburg, 22-24 Sept. 1995), vol. Ι, pp. 197-206. Department of Linguistics, Salzburg.
A. Ambati, M. Andoniou, M. Galazoula, E. Thomadaki G. Katsimali, P. Michalakopoulou & M. Poulopoulou 2001. Ελληνικά από κοντά: 20 (γλωσσικά) μυστήρια για τον επιθεωρητή Σαχίνη … κι εσένα.. [Learning Greek: 20 (linguistic) mysteries for Inspector Sachinis … and you] [with]. Rethymnon: Ε.ΔΙΑ.Μ.ΜΕ. Available at https://www.ediamme.edc.uoc.gr/images/ekpaideytiko-yliko/D/Ellenika%20apo%20konta.pdf
G. Katsimali, D. Papadopoulou, E. Thomadaki, E. Vasilaki & M. Andoniou 2003. Κλειδιά της Ελληνικής Γραμματικής -Keys to Greek Grammar [with ] Rethymnon: Ε.ΔΙΑ.Μ.ΜΕ. (224 pages) available at https://www.ediamme.edc.uoc.gr/images/ekpaideytiko-yliko/D/Kleidia%20tes%20Ellenikes%20grammatikes_Elleno-anglika.pdf
Thomadaki, E. 2009. Το επίθετο: στοιχεία μιας τυπολογικής και συγκριτικής προσέγγισης με ιδιαίτερη αναφορά στην ελληνική, την τουρκική και τη ρωσική. [The adjective: elements of a typological-comparative study in Greek, Turkish and Russian]. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press.
Thomadaki, E. & Stephany, U. 2007. Diminutives in early child Greek. In: Ineta Savickiene & Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds), Diminutives in language acquisition, a crosslinguistic perspective. Amsterdam: Benjamins (with U. Stephany), pp. 89-123.
Thomadaki, E. 2008. Ελλειπτικά κλιτικά παραδείγματα και συχνότητα: η περίπτωση των υποκοριστικών [Gaps in inflectional paradigms: the case of diminutives]. In: Α. Moser, Aik. Mpakakou, Chr. Charalampakis, D. Chila – Markopoulou (eds) ‘glossis charin’: Studies in Honour of Prof. G. Babiniotis. Athens: Ellinika Grammata, pp. 129-140.
Thomadaki, E. 2012. Paradigm structure, defectivity and derivational productivity. In: Gavriilidou, Z., Efthymiou, A., Thomadaki E. & Kampakis-Vougiouklis, P. (eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Greek Linguistics, Komotini, September 1- 4, 2011, Komotini:
Democritus University of Thrace, pp. 550-58. available at: http://www.icgl.gr/files/English/49.Thomadaki_10ICGL_pp.%20550-558.pdf
Thomadaki, E. 2016. Συγκρίνοντας τη «Φυλλάδα του Μεγαλέξαντρου» (1750) μ’ έναν πρόγονό της του 16ου αι.: κλιτικά σχήματα και ποικιλία.[Comparing the Φυλλάδα του Μεγαλέξαντρου (1750) with an older version (16. century): variation in inflectional forms] In: « …ΩΣ ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΑΣ» Eine Festschrift für Hans Eideneier, Edited by Ulrich Moennig, Edition Romiosini, pp.183-198.( https://bibliothek.edition-romiosini.de/catalog/book/19 ).
Stephany, U. & Thomadaki, E. 2017. Compounding in early Greek language acquisition (with U. Stephany). In: Nominal Compound Acquisition, edited by W.U. Dressler, F. Nihan Ketrez, & M. Kilani-Schoch. J.Benjamins Publ. , pp.119-144. .
Dressler W. U., Sommer-Lolei S., Korecky-Kröll K.,· Αrgus R.,·Dabašinskiene I., Kamandulyte-Merfeldiene·L., Johansen Ijäs J., Kazakovskaya·V. V., Laalo K. & Thomadaki, E. 2019. First-language acquisition of synthetic compounds in Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Russian and Saami (with:). Morphology 29:409-429 (DOI 10.1007/s11525-019-09339-0).
Thomadaki, E. & Markou Chr. 2019. On some contact-induced changes in Pomak and the role of Greek. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor, ed. by Tzitzilis, Chr. & G. Papanastasiou, Thessaloniki 3-5/11/2016, Thessaloniki: Institouto Neoellinikon Spoudon. pp. 294-306.
Efthymiou, A. & Thomadaki, E. 2022. Μορφολογία [Morphology] (with). In: Lekakou, M. & N. Topintzi (eds.). Εισαγωγή στη γλωσσολογία. Θεμελιώδεις έννοιες και βασικοί κλάδοι με έμφαση στην ελληνική γλώσσα. Athens: Gutenberg, pp. 150-179.