27.1764, Featured Linguist: Artemis Alexiadou

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Subject: 27.1764, Featured Linguist: Artemis Alexiadou

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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:31:58
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Artemis Alexiadou

 
Dear LINGUIST List Readers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist, Artemis Alexiadou,
for Fund Drive 2016.

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I was born in Volos, a medium sized city in Greece, by the sea, more or less
half way between Athens and Thessaloniki.

My parents thought it would be good for me to learn foreign languages very
young, (sometimes I wonder whether they had heard about the critical period
hypothesis), so next to normal school I had French and English classes. That
was fun but did not trigger any interest in linguistics. I loved to read
books, the longer the better. Maybe I secretly wanted to become a writer.

What I did want to become, however, was an archaeologist, and go on
expeditions.

During my final year of high school, we were told about the Indo-European
language family and how e.g. French, English, German, and Greek all belong to
the same family but to different sub-branches. I entered university to learn
more about these issues, but soon changed my mind. It all happened during our
first session of introduction to linguistics in Athens; our Professor, Dimitra
Theophanopoulou-Kontou, mentioned Noam Chomsky, and the idea of Universal
Grammar. I felt that this all makes perfect sense. It has to be right. I then
wanted to read everything that Chomsky had written; of course, I could hardly
understand most of the things I was reading.

(...)

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