Michail Marinis, Ph.D.

Short CV

About

• I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Classical Studies at Masaryk University, working on the LangInLife project (PI: Pavel Caha).
• I am also an Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies for 2025–26 at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, leading the GreDIS project.
• I previously conducted postdoctoral research co-leading (with Brian D. Joseph) the LaViN project at The Ohio State University.
• I received my BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Patras.
• I have taught courses on morphology, typology, language change, phonology, and Greek linguistics.
• I spend most of my research time working on inflectional paradigms, Greek dialectal variation, syncretism, anti-defectiveness, Special Toponymic Morphology, and Special Headline Grammar. I also work on grammaticalization, language change, and contact phenomena, with a focus on the Greek of Southern Italy.

In preparation

• Book
• Morphology under Siege.
  Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
  (Under Contract)
  
  Papers
• From rich inflection to zero case marking in the plural.
• Tracing the perception of (Greek) Special Headline Grammar.
  with Brian D. Joseph
• What is happening with the inflection of "difficult" adjectives in Modern Greek.
  with Melita Stavrou.
• A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Grammaticalization of dicens.
  with Jana Mikulová and Kateřina Bočková Loudová

Accepted manuscripts (in press):

• Article omissibility in Greek and English: Aspects of a Special Headline Grammar.
  Languages in Contrast, online first.
  with Brian D. Joseph
• Τουρκική και Ελληνική: Μορφολογικός δανεισμός μεταξύ δύο τυπολογικά απομακρυσμένων συστημάτων.
  Ο γλωσσικός δανεισμός ως διαχρονικό εργαλείο γλωσσικής δημιουργικότητας και διδασκαλίας: Θεωρία, ιδεολογία και διδακτικές προτάσεις.
  Μ. Τζακώστα (επιμ.). Θεσσαλονίκη: Δίσιγμα.
• Φαινόμενα μείωσης στην ονοματική κλίση της Λεσβιακής.
  Πρακτικά του 1ου Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου για την Λεσβιακή Διάλεκτο.

Selected recent published books and papers

• 2026
• Greek Around the World
  Joseph, Brian D. & Marinis, Michail I. (eds.).
  Columbus, Ohio: pGLOS.
• Greek enclaves in Southern Italy: an introduction to contemporary language and its history.
  Greek around the world.
  (ed.) B. D. Joseph and M. I. Marinis.
  pp. 39-59. Columbus, Ohio: pGLOS. https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/107252
• Stem
  Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Brill.
• Plural/Pluralia Tantum
  Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Brill.
  
  2025
• On the morphology of toponyms: What (Greek) inflectional paradigms can teach us.
  Transactions of the Philological Society, 123(1), 77-96.
• Όψεις μιας Ειδικής Τοπωνυμικής Μορφολογίας: Παρατηρήσεις από τη διαχρονία των pluralia tantum της Ελληνικής. [Aspects of a Special Toponymic Morphology: Observations from the diachrony of pluralia tantum in Greek]
  Ονόματα 26 [Journal of the Association Onomastique Grecque].
  
  2024.
• Stem, prefix, or prefixoid? Resolving the status of pale-, paʎ- and paʎo- in Standard Modern Greek.
  Journal of Greek Linguistics, 24(2), 242-263.
• Morphological interpretations of syncretism in the panorama of Greek.
  Folia Linguistica, 58(2), 541-562.
• What is missing to confirm a typology of rhythm? Theoretical observations and a preliminary application to two Greek varieties.
  Neograeca Bohemica 24, 61-83.
• The structure of Greek newspaper headlines: The case of Eleftheron Vima in the 1920s.
  Studies in Greek Linguistics, 43, 383-390.
  with Brian D. Joseph
  
  2019
• Development of a Digital Museum for the Immigration of Greeks to Canada.
  Patras Working Papers in Linguistics: Special Issue: Γλώσσα και μετανάστες: η έρευνα για τη γλώσσα των Ελλήνων μεταναστών στον Καναδά, 5, 209-221.
  with Tsimbouris, Ch., Papanagiotou, Ch., Tzanavara, T. & A. Ralli. 2019.
  
  2015
• Περιστάσεις έντονης επαφής και δανεισιμότητα λεξικών στοιχείων: η περίπτωση της Γκρίκο και της Καππαδοκικής.
  Patras Working Papers in Linguistics, 4, 63-74.
  with Angela Ralli.
• Κλίμακες δανεισιμότητας στην γκρίκο και την κρητική: μία πρώτη προσέγγιση. .
  Studies in Greek Linguistics 35, 351–363.

Keynotes and invited talks (upcoming and selected recent)

• Keynote talks
  
• ‘Paradigm survival and collapse: stem allomorphy, syncretism, and (anti)defe-ctiveness (re)shaping Greek nominal inflection’ Keynote talk in Laetae Segetes IX: International PhD and Young Researchers Conference. Brno (Czech Republic); November 19-21, 2025
  
  Upcoming and selected recent invited talks
  
  (upcoming)
  
• ‘Below the Word Level: Morphological Borrowing and Structural Constraints in Greek-Turkish Contact’. In “CHS Greece Annual Research Workshop 2026”. Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University. Nafplion (Gr.); September 4-6, 2026
  
  2026
  
• ‘On the forces reshaping the Greek nominal inflectional paradigm’. In MUNI Lectures in Linguistics - Spring 2026. Brno; May 28, 2026
• ‘When the previously different become identical’. Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University. Washington (DC; USA); April 27, 2026
• ‘Defective and andi-defective phenomena’. In 10th Midwest Greek Linguistics Workshop (MGLW10). Columbus-OH; April 18, 2026
  
  2025
  
• ‘Δανεισιμότητα γραμματικής δομής και (υπο)λεξικών τεμαχίων’. In the Symposium Ο γλωσσικός δανεισμός ως διαχρονικό εργαλείο γλωσσικής δημιουργικότητας και διδασκαλίας. University of Crete. Rethymno· October 31 – November 1, 2025
• ‘Defective and anti-defective phenomena in Greek inflectional morphology’. In Surrey Linguistic Cycle. Surrey Morphology Group. Guildford (Surrey, UK); September 24, 2025
• ‘Aspects of the nominal inflectional morphology of Lesbos’ in the Ιnternational Conference on the Dialect of Lesbos.. Mytilene (Greece), July 4-7, 2025
• ‘To a Special Headlines Grammar? Evidence from the article omission in Greek and English”. Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University. Columbus-Ohio (USA); January 27, 2025
  
  2024
  
• ‘(Modern) Greek in South Italy’ in the Workshop Greek around the World., organized by The Ohio State University Laboratory for the Study of Greek Language. Columbus-Ohio (USA); February 09, 2024
• ‘A diachronical and diatopical overview of syncretism in Greek’ in “ChangeLings”. Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University. Columbus-Ohio (USA); February 07, 2024
• ‘An introductory overview of the language of the Greek-speaking population of Calabria,’ presented as part of the symposium The Language and Tradition of the Greek-Speakers of Calabria, organized by the Department of Primary Education at the University of Patras. Patras (Greece); January 28, 2024
  
  2023
  
• ‘The stylistics and structure of Greek Newspaper Headlines: The first decade of Eleutheron Vima.’ Keynote Speech at a joint event organized by the Department of Linguistics and the Modern Greek Studies Chair at The Ohio State University. Columbus-Ohio (USA); April 26, 2023
• ‘On the morphology of toponyms: Some observations from Greek inflection,’ in the 2nd International Ohio State – Ca’ Foscari Joint Workshop on South Slavic and Balkan languages. Columbus-Ohio (USA); April 22, 2023

Outreach & Leadership

• President of the Corinthian Philological Association. 07/2023–present
• Founder & Coordinator of GLOMIL(os), a student research initiative fostering linguistics in secondary education. 10/2022–present

Major Publications

• MARINIS, Michail. Stem. Online. In Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1163/2666-6421_GLLO_SIM_056958. Publisher's webpage info
• MARINIS, Michail. Plural/Pluralia Tantum. In Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Netherlands: Brill, 2026. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1163/2666-6421_GLLO_COM_058558. URL info
• MARINIS, Michail. Greek enclaves in Southern Italy: Αn introduction to contemporary language and its history. In Joseph, Brian D. & Marinis, Michail I. (eds). 2026. Greek Around the World. Columbus, Ohio: Publications of the Greek Lab at Ohio State (pGLOS), no. 2. [https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/107252]. Online. Columbus, Ohio: GLOS, 2026, s. 39-59. 2. URL info

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