Research | Nina Topintzi

Publications

2003

(2003) "Prosodic patterns and the minimal word in the domain of Greek truncated nicknames." (final pre-print version). In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, ISBN:960-88268-0-2.
(2003) "Issues of locality and morphologically induced non-identity in the N.Karanga assertive and non-assertive patterns." UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 15, Ad Neeleman and Reiko Vermeulen (eds.), pp.327-354.

2004

(2004) "Moraic onsets and WSP partition in Pirahã." In Proceedings of the University of Cambridge 2nd Postgraduate Conference in Language Research 2004, Evangelia Daskalaki et al. (eds.), pp. 211-218.

2005

(2005) "On Sonority, Onsets and Stress in Arabela." In Proceedings of the University of Cambridge 3rd Postgraduate Conference in Language Research 2005, Gerasimos Chatzidamianos et al. (eds.), pp. 279-286.
(2005) "Solving the Samothraki Greek Compensatory Lengthening Puzzle." (final pre-print version). In Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the 17th International Symposium Vol. I (2005) , E. Agathopoulou, M. Dimitrakopoulou and D. Papadopoulou (eds.), pp. 53-63, Thessaloniki: Monochromia.
(2005) "Putting ‘commas’ at the right place: A note on crucial non-ranking in OT." In Mary Pearce and Nina Topintzi (eds.), UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 17: 83-108.

2006

(2006) "A (not so) paradoxical instance of compensatory lengthening: Samothraki Greek and theoretical implications." Journal of Greek Linguistics 7: 71-119.

2008

(2008) "Word Minimality in Bella Coola as evidence for moraic onsets." (final pre-print version). In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society 2005 (Main Session), pp. 489-503.
(2008) "Weight Polarity in Ancient Greek and other languages." In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics 2007, pp. 503-517.
(2008) "On the existence of moraic onset geminates." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 26 (1): 147 - 184.

2009

(2009) "Palatalization and Centralization in Samothraki Greek." (with Marc van Oostendorp). In Studies in Greek Linguistics 29: 385-399.

2010

(2010) Onsets: Suprasegmental and Prosodic Behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2010) "Inter-dialectal Insights into Greek Rhythm: The Case of Standard Modern Greek vs. Kozani Greek." (with Katerina Nicolaidis and Eleni Tsiartsioni). In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT4), A. Ralli et al. (eds.), ISSN: 1792-3743, pp. 197-212.
(2010) "The phonology and phonetics of glides in North-Western Greek dialects."(with Mary Baltazani). In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT4), A. Ralli et al. (eds.), ISSN: 1792-3743, pp. 54-68.
(2010) "Editors' introduction." (with Mary Baltazani & Tasos Tsangalidis). The Linguistic Review 27(3): 231-239. Special issue: Mapping asymmetries: Phonology, syntax and information structure.

2011

(2011) "Onsets." In The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume and Keren Rice (eds). Blackwell Publishing. NB: this is a preprint version of the paper that has minor errors/typos.

2012

(2012) "On some phonetic and phonological properties of the Greek glide." (with Mary Baltazani). In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Z. Gavriilidou et al. (eds), Komotini: Democritus University of Thrace, pp. 153-166.
(2012) "The acoustics of high-vowel loss in a Northern Greek dialect and typological implications." (with Mary Baltazani). Uncorrected proof. In Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity, Phil Hoole et al. (eds.), Interface Explorations series, Mouton de Gruyter
(2012) "Acronyms and the placement of default stress in Greek." (with Evia Kainada). In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Z. Gavriilidou et al. (eds), Komotini: Democritus University of Thrace, pp. 559-570.

2013

(2013) "Compensatory Lengthening". Lemma in the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, Georgios Giannakis, Vit Bubenik, Emilio Crespo, Chris Golston, Alexandra Lianeri, Silvia Luraghi and Stephanos Matthaios (eds.). Leiden: Brill.
(2013) "Sandhi". Lemma in the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, Georgios Giannakis, Vit Bubenik, Emilio Crespo, Chris Golston, Alexandra Lianeri, Silvia Luraghi and Stephanos Matthaios (eds.). Leiden: Brill.
(2013) "Syllable." Synopsis Article. In Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Vol. 4, Phonetics & Phonology, T.A. Hall and Bernd Pompino-Marschall (eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2014

(2014) "As alive as ever: the geminate debate under Containment." (with Eva Zimmermann). In Anke Assmann, Sebastian Bank, Doreen Georgi, Timo Klein, Philipp Weisser & Eva Zimmermann (eds.), Linguistische Arbeits Berichte 92 (Rule Interaction in Grammar): 65-90, Leipzig University.

2015

(2015) "A Linguistic Analysis of the Modern Greek Dekapentasyllavo." (with Stefano Versace). Journal of Greek Linguistics 15: 235-269.

2016

(2016) "The third dream: aspects of the morphophonology of the Greek glide and palatals." (with Mary Baltazani). Linguistics Unlimited, Vol. 1 (2016).
(2016) "Iquito: The Prosodic Colon and Challenges to OT Stress Accounts". In Dimensions of Phonological Stress, Jeff Heinz, Harry van der Hulst and Rob Goedemans (eds.), pp. 123-167. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [this is the final pre-publication version].
(2016) "Vocoid-driven processes: Palatalization and glide hardening in Greek and its dialects" (with Mary Baltazani, Evia Kainada and Anthi Revithiadou). Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 1(1), 23. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.108

2017

(2017) "On the Weight of Edge Geminates". (with Stuart Davis). In Haruo Kubozono (ed.), Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants, pp. 260- 282. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [this is the final pre-publication version]
(2017) "Moraic Onsets in Arrernte". (with Andrew Nevins). Phonology 34(3): 615-650. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675717000306

2018

(2018) "Preference for locality is affected by the prefix/suffix asymmetry: Evidence from artificial language learning" (with Jamie White et al.). In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society [NELS 48], Vol. III, pp. 207-220.

2019

(2019) "Quantifying Greek Rhyme" (with Konstantinos Avdelidis & Theodora Valkanou). In Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from 23rd ISTAL, Thessaloniki 31 March - 2 April 2017, pp. 429-447, ISSN 2529-1114.

2020

(2020) "On the Syllabification of ON (Obstruent-Nasal) Clusters in Greek". (with Dimitra Gratsouni). Studies in Greek Linguistics 40: 105-113.

2021

(2021) Τυπολογία Γλωσσών. Βασικές αρχές, θεωρητικές προσεγγίσεις και φαινόμενα. ISBN 978-960-524-605-1. Ηράκλειο: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης.

2022

(2022) "A new phonological analysis of geminates in Cypriot Greek (and beyond)". Journal of Greek Linguistics 22(1): 36-71.
(2022) "End-weight manifestations in Greek binomials". (with Athina Kikiopoulou). Studies in Greek Linguistics 41: 109-117.
(2022) "Regularities and oddities in Greek binomials". (with Athina Kikiopoulou). In Supplemental Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Meeting on Phonology, Peter Jurgec, Liisa Duncan, Emily Elfner, Yoonjung Kang, Alexei Kochetov, Brittney K. O’Neill, Avery Ozburn, Keren Rice, Nathan Sanders, Jessamyn Schertz, Nate Shaftoe, and Lisa Sullivan (eds.). Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
(2022) Εισαγωγή στη Γλωσσολογία: Θεμελιώδεις έννοιες και βασικοί κλάδοι με έμφαση στην ελληνική γλώσσα (συνεπιμέλεια με τη Μαρίκα Λεκάκου). Αθήνα: Gutenberg.
(2022) "Φωνολογία" (με την Ιωάννα Κάππα) (τελική προ δημοσίευσης μορφή). Στο Εισαγωγή στη Γλωσσολογία: Θεμελιώδεις έννοιες και βασικοί κλάδοι με έμφαση στην ελληνική γλώσσα, Μ. Λεκάκου & Ν. Τοπιντζή (επιμ.), σελ. 91-149, Αθήνα: Gutenberg.

2023

(2023) "Some things you just cannot share: on Schneider’s Law, geminates and syllables" (with Katerina Markoulaki). In Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from ISTAL 24, Areti-Maria Sougari & Valandis Bartzokas (eds.), pp. 546-562.
(2023) Phonetics and Phonology: an introduction with special focus on English and Greek. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions.

2024

(2024) "Sonority hierarchy (Modern Greek)". Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Georgios Giannakis (editor-in-chief). Brill.
(2024) "Compensatory Lengthening". Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Georgios Giannakis (editor-in-chief). Brill.

2025

(2025) "Reconciling “Heavy” and “Long”: The Typology of Lexical Geminates" (with Eva Zimmermann). Linguistic Inquiry 56 (2): 311–351.
(2025) "Antepenultimate rhyme in Spanish and Greek as a window to metrically weak positions." (with Mirella de Sisto & Violeta Martínez-Paricio). Glossa 10.
(2025) "Suprasegmental features". Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Georgios Giannakis (editor-in-chief). Brill.

2026

(2026) "Rime". Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Georgios Giannakis (editor-in-chief). Brill.

to appear

"Onsets". In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 2nd ed., Kuniya Nasukawa, Bridget Samuels, Geoffrey Schwartz & Miklós Törkenczy (eds.). Wiley.
"Greek clusters: a c-center approach" (with Athina Kikiopoulou). In Proceedings of ICGL 16, 2023, Thessaloniki.
"Θα να'ρχομαι στην Ήπειρο: the co-occurrence of θα and να in Epirus" (with Marika Lekakou & Georgia Tsioli). In Proceedings of ICGL 16, 2023, Thessaloniki.
"Syllable structure". Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online. Georgios Giannakis (editor-in-chief). Brill.
"Peripheral morphological processes". In The Oxford Handbook of Greek Linguistics, George Tsoulas, Dimitris Michelioudakis & Anthi Revithiadou (eds.). Oxford University Press.
"The status of glides" (with Mary Baltazani). In The Oxford Handbook of Greek Linguistics, George Tsoulas, Dimitris Michelioudakis & Anthi Revithiadou (eds.). Oxford University Press.
"Magnitude Symbolism in Greek Plosives: The Role of Place of Articulation, Voicing, and Position in the Perception of Largeness" (with Mirsini-Anna Boni & Maria Dimitrakopoulou). In Proceedings from ISTAL 26 (2024). Thessaloniki.

Selected presentations & manuscripts

(2002) "Prosodic Patterns in Greek Truncation and Reduplication: A Correspondence approach.", ms. MA dissertation, UCL.
(2008) "Beyond tonogenesis: voicing effects on stress." Presented at the Workshop on Phonological Voicing Variation, Amsterdam and Leiden, The Netherlands, 11-12 September 2008.
(2009) "Resolving some paradoxes through binary feature spans." (with Marc van Oostendorp). Presented at OCP6, Edinburgh, UK, 22-24 January 2009.
(2011) "Paradigm structure and Greek glides." Talk presented at the University of Leipzig, Germany, 6 June 2011.
(2012) "Compensatory Lengthening." Invited talk at the 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting, in the Special Session Unsolved Problems in Phonology, 23-25 May 2012, Manchester, UK.
(2017) "Poetic Rhyme in Greek: insights from a pilot database". (with Konstantinos Avdelidis & Theodora Valkanou). Poster presented at the 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM 25) 25-27 May 2017, Manchester, UK
(2021) "Weight effects in Greek? Insights from binomials" (with Athina Kikiopoulou). Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 30 August-3 September 2021.