ICGL is a biennial meeting, held since 1993, that focuses on all aspects of the linguistic study and analysis of Greek, from Ancient up through Modern Greek, with greater emphasis on the later stages of the language.

The fifteen previous Conferences were held as follows (click on each event to view statistical information, plenary talks and use the icons to view contents and preliminary pages of proceedings or conference websites):

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77 presentations, 4 plenary talks, 66 papers in the volume “Themes in Greek Linguistics I”, 154 linguistics from 16 countries.

Plenary Talks

George Babiniotis (University of Athens)
Contemporary Linguistics and the Teaching of Modern Greek

Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou (University of Athens)
Transformational Grammar and Modern Greek Syntax: an overview and some ‘Problematic” Cases

Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University)
On Weak Subjects and Pro-drop in Greek

Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman (University of Salzburg)
New approaches to some problems of Greek Phonology
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90 presentations, one presidential address, 78 papers in the proceedings, over 100 linguists from all over the world.

Plenary Talk

Gaberell Drachman (University of Salzburg)
Optimality Theory and the Acquisition of Syntax
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133 presentations, no plenary talks, 108 papers in the proceedings, approximately 300 linguists.
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100 presentations, 3 plenary talks, 88 papers in the proceedings.

Plenary Talks

Αναστάσιος-Φοίβος Χριστίδης (Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης)
Ιστορίες της Ελληνικής Γλώσσας

Άννα Συμεωνίδου (Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης)
Το στοιχείο ‘ώδ(ης)’ στην ελληνική: Mία περίπτωση γραμματικοποίησης

Ειρήνη Φιλιππάκη-Warburton (University of Reading)
Γλωσσολογική θεωρία και σύνταξη της ελληνικής: Η ποικιλία στη σειρά των όρων και η ερμηνεία της
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160 papers presented, no plenary talks, 147 papers in the proceedings.
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169 presentations, 2 plenary talks, 120 papers in the proceedings, linguists from 17 countries.

Plenary Talks

Sabine Iatridou (MIT)
Two constructions in Greek and what we can learn from them

Ειρήνη Φιλιππάκη-Warburton (University of Reading)
Παρεμφατικότητα και υποτακτική: αναζητώντας το χαμένο απαρέμφατο σε δομές ελέγχου


102 presentations, 2 plenary talks, 60 published papers.

Plenary Talks

Ianthi Tsimpli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Developing Greek

Angela Ralli (University of Patras)
Parameters in word formation: The case of compound marking
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169 presentations, 5 plenary talks, 92 papers in the proceedings.

Plenary Talks

Χριστόφορος Χαραλαμπάκης (Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών)
Το νέο Χρηστικό Λεξικό της Νεοελληνικής της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών

Marina Nespor (Università degli Studi di Ferrara)
The function of prosody in the acquisition of language

Geoffrey Horrocks (University of Cambridge)
Πάσας ἡδονὰς ἥδεσθαι: Cognate objects in (Ancient) Greek and English

Λουκάς Δ. Τσιτσιπής (Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης)
Μια πραξιακή προσέγγιση θεμάτων της Ελληνικής γλώσσας από την οπτική γωνία της ανθρωπογλωσσολογίας

Vit Bubenik (Memorial University at Newfoundland)
The evolution of the Greek prepositional system from PIE local adverbs and adpositions


113 presentations, 5 plenary talks, 52 papers in the proceedings.

Plenary Talks

Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart)
Remarks on the morpho-syntax of code-switching

Niovi Antonopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Πιστοποίηση ελληνομάθειας: Δέσμευση ή συμβολή στη διάδοση της ελληνικής γλώσσας

Amalia Arvaniti (University of California, San Diego)
The significance of Greek for the study of speech rhythm

Mark Janse (University of Ghent)
The Survival of a 'Dead Greek Dialect': Cappadocian before and after the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey

Melita Stavrou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
O, Vocative!


200 presentations, 6 plenary talks, 119 papers in the proceedings.

Plenary Talks

Άννα Αναστασιάδη-Συμεωνίδη (Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης)
Το νεοελληνικό κλιτικό σύστημα των ουσιαστικών και οι τάσεις του

Jean-Claude Anscombre (LDI-CNRS - Paris XIII)
Some insights into evidentiality and evidential markers in French

Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
The Greek future as an epistemic modal

Igor Mel’cuk (Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, University of Montreal)
Phraseology: Its place in the language, in the dictionary, and in natural language processing

Pius ten Hacken (Swansea University)
Neoclassical word formation in English and the organization of the lexicon

Ursula Stephany (University of Cologne)
Selecting a theoretical framework fitting acquisition data is no easy matter


234 presentations, 3 plenary talks, 140 papers in the proceedings.

Plenary Talks

Brian D. Joseph (The Ohio State University)
Language and sustainability in the Greek context

Μακρή-Τσιλιπάκου Μαριάνθη (Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης)
Πρακτικές κοινωνι(ογλωσσι)κής κατηγοριοποίησης: Κατηγορίες μέλους

Ράλλη Αγγελική (Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών)
Morphological variation in Modern Greek and its dialects


230 presentations, 5 plenary talks, 82 papers in the proceedings, approximately 400 linguists from all over the world.

Plenary Talks

Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)
Ordering patterns and the syntax of the Person Case Constraint (PCC)

Peter Mackridge (University of Oxford)
Some literary representations of spoken Greek before nationalism (1750-1804)

Maria Sifianou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Η έννοια της ευγένειας στα Eλληνικά

Donca Steriade (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Tribrach Law in Ancient Greek

Spyridoula Varlokosta (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
(Morpho)syntactic impairements in agrammatic aphasia


135 presentations, 3 plenary talks, 52 papers in the proceedings.

Plenary Talks

Professor David Holton (University of Cambridge)
Medieval and Early Modern Greek: more data, more clarity?

Professor Theodore Marinis (University of Reading)
Production and on-line processing in children acquiring Greek as a second language

Argyris Archakis (University of Patras)
Από τον εθνικό στον μετα-εθνικό λόγο: Ανάλυση δεδομένων από μαθητικά γραπτά μεταναστών και προτάσεις γλωσσικής πολιτικής στο πλαίσιο της κριτικής γλωσσικής εκπαίδευσης
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202 presentations, 1 plenary talk, 134 papers in the proceedings.

Plenary Talk

Prof. Stavros Skopeteas (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Emergence of VO properties in OV languages: Caucasian Urum or the Turkish-speaking Pontic people


148 presentations, 4 plenary talks, proceedings are not yet published, over 200 linguists.

Plenary Talks

Zoe Gavriilidou (Democritus University of Thrace)
Teaching Greek as a Heritage language

Κώστας Κανάκης (Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου)
Συγκρουσιακά γλωσσικά τοπία και χρονοτοπικοί ενδείκτες: Αθήνα και Βελιγράδι

Ελένη Καραντζόλα (Τμήμα Μεσογειακών Σπουδών, Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου)
Τι γνωρίζουμε για και τι μπορούμε να μάθουμε από την πρώιμη νέα ελληνική;

Stavroula Tsiplakou (Open University of Cyprus)
Dialect levelling, koineization, bidialectal acquisition: notes from Cyprus
277 presentations (6 Plenary talks, 1 tribute talk, 116 Oral presentations in thematic sessions, 127 Oral presentations in the general sessions, 24 Poster presentations in the general sessions, 3 working groups)

Plenary Talks

Anna Iordanidou
Το γλωσσικό μάθημα στο ελληνικό σχολείο: Διδακτικές προσεγγίσεις και διδακτικές πρακτικές

Vasiliki (Kiki) Nikiforidou
A constructional approach to grammatical multifunctionality Greek linguistics and the marker που (pu)

Anthi Revithiadou
Exploring central themes in Greek phonology through the lens of Optimality Theory and other constraint-based models

Anna Roussou
(Re)current themes in Greek syntax

Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
Greek as a first or second language: insights from and contributions to linguistic theory

Giannis Veloudis
Άρνηση και συναίσθημα

Tribute speech in the special session honouring the memory of Irene Philippaki-Warburton

Vassilis Spyropoulos
Το έργο και η συμβολή της Ειρήνης Φιλιππάκη-Warburton στη γλωσσολογία

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