Linguistics
Linguistics is a scientific field which researches all aspects of language and communication, including the study of language as a structure and system, as sociolinguistic reality or as a medium for cognitive faculties. In addition, Linguistics includes the study of ancient languages and their evolution into contemporary language systems. Through the above areas it investigates systematic aspects of language and develops electronic applications such as voice recognition, automatic translation, etc.
Undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Linguistics at the Department of Philology in Patras teach a variety of linguistic phenomena in the following study topics:
- Morphology (derivation, compounding, declension/ Comparative, Diachronic)
- Phonetics (Articulatory, Laboratory)
- Phonology (Segmental, Suprasegmental)
- Syntax (Theoretical, Comparative, Diachronic)
- Semantics (Formal, Sentential, Lexical)
- Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis (Meaning and implicatures, Speech Acts, Discourse organisation, Registers)
- Sociolinguistics (Dimensions of language variation, Sociolinguistic inequality, Language contact, Language and identity)
- Historical Linguistics (Language change, History of the Greek language)
- Lexicology (Word analysis, Construction of lexical inventory, Specialised vocabularies, Slang)
- Lexicography (Creation of general and specialised dictionaries, Development of lexicographical databases)
- Dialectology (Morpho-phonology of Modern Greek dialects, fieldwork, sociolinguistic approaches to dialectal speech)
- Psycholinguistics (Processing, Lexical access, Organisation of cognitive lexicon)
- Neurolinguistics (Language and brain, Language impairment)
- Language Acquisition (Mechanisms and theories of first language acquisition)
Faculty Staff in Linguistics
Xydopoulos George J. – Professor