Giannakis Georgios
Georgios K. Giannakis studied Classics at the University of Ioannina (B.A. 1977), General Linguistics at the University of Chicago (1979-81) and Historical/Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (C.Phil. 1988, Ph.D. 1992). He was a fellow of the Vaughan Centennial Institute at the University of Stanford (Summer 1991), and he has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles (1992-95), Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles (1991-97), the University of Ioannina (1998-2010), he has been Associate Professor (2010-2014) and now is Professor of Historical and Indo-European Linguistics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
His research interests focus on ancient Indo-European languages and linguistics, as well as on the relation between language, society and culture. He participates or has participated in a number of research projects, among them: (a) “HERA: Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe” (a collaborative research program of the European Union): Research Associate with the Autonomous University of Madrid with the theme: “Languages and Dialects in Contact in Ancient Νorthern Greece” (PI: Emilio Crespo). (participating institutions: University of Rome “La Sapienza”, University of Siena, Autonomous University of Madrid, University of Leiden and University of Ghent). (Project Leader: Professor Albio Cesare Cassio, University of Rome “La Sapienza”). (b) Member of the “New Buck” project under the direction of Professor Rudolf Wachter (University of Basel & University of Lausanne, and (c) “Ancient Greek Dialects of vital importance for the continuity of the Greek language and the cultural tradition– A documentation project for the support of the curricula in the Universities’ Departments of Language and Literature”, implemented through the Operational Program “Education and Life-long Learning” of The Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports, co-funded by the E.U. (European Social Fund) and by National Resources (NSRF 2007-2013 and 2013-2015).
He is the author of over 80 studies which appeared in journals, conference proceedings and collective volumes in Greece and abroad (see CV for a list of selected publications), has participated in numerous scholarly conferences, symposia, and is the author of the books: (1) Studies in the syntax and the semantics of the reduplicated presents of Homeric Greek and Indo-European (Innsbruck 1997); (2) Οι Ινδοευρωπαίοι. Μέρος Α: Γλώσσα και Πολιτισμός [The Indo-Europeans. Part I: Language and Culture], 2nd ed. Thessaloniki 2015, 1st ed. Athens 2005); (3) Ιστορική Γλωσσολογία και Φιλολογία [Historical Linguistics and Philology] (Thessaloniki 2011), and is Executive Editor of the multivolume Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (E. J. Brill, 2014). He has edited the Greek edition of A. L. Sihler’s New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (Oxford – New York 1995) = Συγκριτική Γραμματική της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής και της Λατινικής (Αthens 2009); of M. L. West’s Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007) = Ινδοευρωπαϊκή ποίηση και μυθολογία (Thessaloniki 2013); the volumes Ancient Macedonia: Language, History, Culture (Thessaloniki 2012 — see “Thetima: Ancient Greek dialects” in the website: http://ancdialects.greeklanguage.gr) and The Linguistic Map of Central and Northern Greece in Antiquity (Thessaloniki 2015); Studies in Ancient Dialects: From Central Greece to the Black Sea (with Emilio Crespo and Panagiotis Filos–de Gruyter 2018); a Greek edition of the book by J. Clackson & G. Horrocks, The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (Athens 2014) and of L. R. Palmer’s book The Greek language (D. N. Papadimas, Athens 2015). He has coedited (together with M. Baltazani, G. Xydopoulos and A. Tsangalidis) the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, August 30th – September 2nd, 2007 (Ioannina 2009); 12 Κείμενα για τη Γλωσσολογία [12 Texts on Linguistics] (Athens 2011). Finally, he is preparing the monographs: (1) Οι Ινδοευρωπαίοι. Μέρος Β: Κοινωνική οργάνωση και θεσμοί [The Indo-Europeans. Part II: Social Organization and Institutions], (2) Εγχειρίδιο της Σανσκριτικής [Handbook of Sanskrit], (3) The Indo-European language of death. A linguistic study of the metaphors of death, dying, and afterlife in Greek and Indo-European, (4) Indo-European Morphophonosyntax, (5) Historical Linguistics and Philology, and (6) Ancient Greek and Indo-European taboos, (7) Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics (General Editor–E. J. Brill–in preparation).