Dr Katerina Zombolou

Telephone: +61 3 9479 6418 Email : k.zombolou@latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9467 3053

Katerina Zombolou is currently a research fellow at the RCLT. She is working on the Greek language spoken in Latin America, Argentina and Uruguay.  The main purpose of this project is to examine whether the Greek language spoken by Greek immigrants has changed (compared to standard Modern Greek) and, if yes, whether this change is under the influence of the Spanish language spoken in these countries.

Katerina Zombolou has studied in Athens, Greece (BA in Germanics), in Tuebingen, Germany (BA in General Theoretical Linguistics; MA in Linguistics), in Reading, England (PhD Thesis in Linguistics). She has previously worked in projects and also taught courses in Language Acquisition and, Morphology in English and German, as well as Modern Greek at the universities of Stuttgart and Tuebingen, Germany.

Her main linguistic interests lie in lexical semantics, especially in verbal semantics (Lexical Decomposition Theory), morphology and language acquisition. Her main focus though is the Medio-passive (middle and passive voice) of Modern Greek, including reflexives/ reciprocals, deponent verbs, modal passives, anticausatives, among many others. She is currently mostly interested in the first language acquisition of passives versus anticausatives.

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