Meet Sophie Vassilaki, specialist in Modern Greek Linguistics (SeDYL)
The "Portraits of Researchers in Area Studies" (PEA) is a series of large-format interviews produced by Inalco as part of the Digital Paris Research School of Area Studies (D-PaRSAS) institutional project. Deposited on the MediHal open archive, this series of portraits joins a set of collections on the Language and Cultural Area Studies (LaCAS) platform. These collections aim to build up a living, freely accessible scientific heritage of research on the world's languages, societies and cultures.
Large-format portrait
Video: Meeting Sophie Vassilaki, specialist in modern Greek linguistics (SeDYL)
An interview conducted by Sarah Gimenez, young researcher (CERMOM) and Digital Humanities engineer (Direction de la Recherche, de la Valorisation et des Etudes doctorales, Inalco), directed by Alexandre Galitzine, produced by Inalco (17/02/2022 - 1h21mn).
Podcast: Modern Greek grammar and linguistics. An interview with Sophie Vassilaki
Sophie Vassilaki is Professor of Modern Greek Linguistics at Inalco. A graduate of the University of Athens in Classics, she continued her studies in France. After a Master's degree in Language Sciences at Paris Descartes (Teaching the mother tongue), followed by a DEA (post-graduate diploma) and a doctoral thesis at Paris Diderot, under the supervision of Pr Antoine Culioli (LLF laboratory), she obtained her HDR in 2005. She was a member of the Cercle des Linguistes de l'Inalco (CLI); she is a member of UMR 8202 Structure et Dynamique des Langues - SeDYL (CNRS-Inalco-IRD).
Her areas of specialization are the grammar and linguistics of modern Greek. His research focuses on the GM aspecto-modal system, discourse markers, the organization of the complex sentence and the diachrony of Greek.
Selected articles, book (co-)direction
2017 : (in collaboration with Christine Bonnot), " Variation catégorielle et polysémie : comparaison des conjonctions de coordination / marqueurs discursifs I (russe) et KE (grec moderne) ", Langages, n° 207 (3/2017), Comparaison des marqueurs discursifs, sous la direction de D. Paillard, Armand Colin, pp. 65-78.
2019 : " Suffixation diminutive et individuation : le suffixe -áki du grec moderne ", Bonnot, C., H. de Penanros & O. Duvallon (eds),Individuation et référence nominale à travers les langues, ed. Lambert-Lucas, Paris, pp. 105-129.
2021: "André Mirambel à travers ses archives: à propos de l'enseignement du grec moderne à l'INALCO", Maximilien Girard & Claire Béchu (eds), La France et la Grèce au XXe siècle, des archives à l'Histoire, ed. École française d'Athènes, pp. 261-274.
2021: (in collaboration with Camille Denizot and Liana Tronci), "On the syntax of ἄν in Ancient Greek temporal clauses", Markopoulos, Th., C. Vlachos, Α. Αrchakis, D. Papazachariou, G. Xydopoulos & Α. Roussou (eds) Proceedings of the 14h ICGL (International Conference on Greek Linguistics), University of Patras. (ISBN: 978-618-5496-03-6).
2021: (in collaboration with Christine Bonnot), "Entre phraséologie et conditionnement contextuel : le cas des constructions pseudo-coordonnées en russe et en grec moderne", Gaétane Dostie & Dorota Sikora (eds), Les phraséologismes pragmatiques. Entre langue et discours, Lexique, n° 29, Univ. de Lille, p.191-209. [3rd part of the study to appear during 2023]
2022 : (in collaboration with Rea Delveroudi and Evangelia Vlachou), Approches linguistiques comparatives grec moderne-français, dir. R. Delveroudi, Vassilaki S., Vlachou E., ed. Presses de l'Université nationale et capodistrienne d'Athènes, 265 p.