Contact Details :
Department of English Studies
University of Cyprus
75 Kallipoleos
P.O. Box 20537
1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
Phone: +357 2289 2106
Fax: +357 2275 0310
email: kleanthi@ucy.ac.cy
Homepage :
www.punksinscience.org/kleanthes
Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Assistant Professor
PROFILE
Undergraduate studies at University of Wales, Bangor (BA Honours in Linguistics, First Class, 1996). Graduate Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (PhD in Linguistics, Specialization: Syntactic Theory, 2000). Kleanthes Grohmann has worked as a Researcher at ZAS Berlin (2001) before joining the graduate school on sentence types in Frankfurt as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He has taught at the University of Maryland (1998-2000) and at various institutions in Germany: Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt (2001-2), Universität Stuttgart (2002), Universität zu Köln (2002-2003). He joined the University of Cyprus as a visitor in 2003 and has been Assistant Professor since July 2004.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Theoretical linguistics (esp. syntax, morphology). Generative Grammar (architectural and conceptual issues). Syntactic theory (Principles-and-Parameters Theory: GB, Minimalism). English linguistics (grammar, history). Germanic syntax. Interfaces (syntax–semantics, –phonology, –pragmatics/discourse). Issues in the syntax of e.g. Basque, Celtic, Greek, Japanese, Romance, Slavic. First and Second Language Acquisition. Synchrony and Diachrony (morphosyntax).
PUBLICATIONS
[For full list, see my CV at
www.punksinscience.org/kleanthes/cv/cv.html .]
Understanding Minimalism [with Norbert Hornstein and Jairo Nunes]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, to appear [2005]. [textbook]
Prolific Domains: On the Anti-Locality of Movement Dependencies . Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003. [monograph]
Prolific Peripheries: A Radical View from the Left . Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Proquest, 2003. [dissertation]
Edited Volumes [selection]
Multiple Wh-Fronting [with Cedric Boeckx]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003.
Book Chapters [selection]' On the Expression of Pejorative Mood ' [with Andrew Ira Nevins]. In Pierre Pica and Johan Rooryck, eds. Linguistic Variation Yearbook 4 . Amsterdam: John Benjamins, to appear [2005].
' Top Issues in Questions: Topics - Topicalization - Topicalizability '. In Lisa Cheng and Norbert Corver, eds. Wh-Movement on the Move . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, to appear [2005].
' Left Dislocation in Germanic ' [with Cedric Boeckx]. In Werner Abraham, ed. Focus on Germanic Typology , pp. 131-144. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2005.
' SubMove: Towards a Unified Account of Scrambling and D-Linking ' [with Cedric Boeckx]. In David Adger, Cécile de Cat, and George Tsoulas, eds. Peripheries: Syntactic Edges and Their Effects , pp. 241-257. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004.
'Pronouns and the Left Periphery of West Germanic Embedded Clauses '. In Werner Abraham and Elly van Gelderen, eds. German: Syntactic Problems-Problematic Syntax , pp. 163-189. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1997.
Journal Articles [selection]
' Successive Cyclicity under (Anti-) Local Considerations '. Syntax 6.3 , pp. 260-312 [2003].
' Root Infinitives: A Comparative View ' [with Ricardo Etxepare]. Probus 15.2, pp. 201-236 [2003].
' Anti-Locality and Clause Types '. Theoretical Linguistics 28.1, pp. 43-72 [2002].
Book Reviews [selection]
Book review of K. Hale & S.J. Keyser (2002) Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). Language 81.
[to appear, 2005].
Book review of P. Pica & J. Rooryck, eds. (2002) Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2 (Amsterdam: John Benjamins). Linguist List 15.2131 [2004].
Book review of S.D. Epstein & T.D. Seely, eds. (2002) Derivation and Representation in the Minimalist Program (Oxford: Blackwell). Linguist List 14.3180 [2003].
Book review of R. Martin, D. Michaels & J. Uriagereka, eds. (2000) Step by Step. Essays on Minimalist Syntax in Honor of Howard Lasnik (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). Language 78.1, pp. 161-164 [2002].
Book review of Ž. Boškovic (2001) On the Nature of the Syntax-Phonology Interface. Cliticization and Related Phenomena (Amsterdam: North-Holland). Linguist List 12.2776 [2001].
Book review of B.J. Birner & G. Ward (1998) Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English (Amsterdam: John Benjamins). Studies in Language 24.2, pp. 470-477 [2000].
Book review of P.M. Postal (1998) Three Investigations of Extraction (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). Linguist List 10.934 [ 1999].
Conference Proceedings [selection]
' On Predication, Derivation and Anti-Locality '. In Niina Zhang, ed. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 26, pp. 87-112. Berlin: ZAS, 2001.
' No More EPP ' [with John Drury & Juan Carlos Castillo]. In Roger Billerey and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, eds. Proceedings of the Nineteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics , pp. 153-166. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2000.
