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Stavros Skopeteas

Institute for Linguistics · Georg-August University of Göttingen
Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3 · 37073, Göttingen · (49) 51-39-25481 · hisName.hisSurname@uni-goettingen.de

Oct 2017
 Göttingen
Oct 2010
 Bielefeld
Apr 2010
 Tübingen
Oct 2003
 Potsdam
Apr 1999
 Erfurt
Sep 1995
 Bielefeld
Sep 1987
 Athens
Linguistics, Typology, Language Change.
Caucasian, Ancient Indo-European, Mesoamerican, West-African languages.
Corpora, field experiments, statistic modelling.
information structure, syntax-prosody interface, nominal structures and number, spatial expressions.

publications

Articles

Skopeteas, S. 2024. Post-predicate prosody in OV languages. In Geoffrey Haig, Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand, Donald Stilo, Laurentia Schreiber & Nils N. Schiborr (eds.), Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone: A corpus-based approach to areal typology, 87–117. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14266335

Chakmakjian, S., Dolatian H., Skopeteas S. 2024. Word Stress and Prosodic Events in Eastern Armenian. Proc. Speech Prosody 2024, 1170-1174, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-236

Blaha Pfeiler, B., Skopeteas, S. 2024. Numeral classifiers in Yucatec Maya: Microvariation and syntactic change. Journal of Historical Syntax 8(6): 1–49, DOI: 10.18148/hs/2024.v8i6.219

Polyanskaya, L., Skopeteas, S., Halama, P., Hollenbach, R. & Ordin, M. 2024. Derivational morphology and suffixing bias on linguistic and nonlinguistic material. Journal of Language Evolution 9(1): 1–17. DOI: 10.1093/jole/lzae005

Skopeteas, S., Ahoua, F., Adou, M.-L. & Mambo, B. K. 2024. Resuming topics and foci: Anyi, Baule and microvariation in Kwa languages, Journal of African languages and linguistics 45(1): 45–84. DOI: 10.1515/jall-2024-2004

Canché Teh, B. F., Blaha Degler, B., Skopeteas, S. 2023. La variación del maya yucateco en la percepción de hablantes nativos. Estudios De Cultura Maya, 62, 297-326. https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm/62/000XS00146W10

Blaha Pfeiler, B. & Skopeteas, S. 2022. Sources of convergence in indigenous languages: Lexical variation in Yucatec Maya. PLoS ONE 17(5): e0268448. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268448

Skopeteas, S., Verhoeven, E. & Fanselow, G. 2022. Discontinuous noun phrases in Yucatec Maya. Journal of Linguistics 58(3): 609–648, DOI: 10.1017/S0022226720000419

Brill, I. & Skopeteas, S. 2021. The syntax and prosody of focus in Northern Amis (Formosan). Faits de Langues 52(1): 61–87. DOI: 10.1163/19589514-05201004

Greif, M. & Skopeteas, S. 2021. Correction by Focus: Cleft Constructions and the Cross-Linguistic Variation in Phonological Form. Frontiers in Psychology 12: 648478. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648478

Müller, G., Bódnar, E., Skopeteas, S. & Kroeger, J. M. 2021. On the Impact of Case and Prosody on Thematic Role Disambiguation: An Eye-Tracking Study on Hungarian. Language and Speech 64(4): 930–961. DOI: 10.1177/0023830920974709

Skopeteas, S., Féry, C. & Asatiani, R. 2018. Prosodic separation of postverbal material in Georgian: A corpus study on syntax-phonology interface. In Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages. Studies in prosody and syntax, E. Adamou, K. Haude and M. Vanhove (eds), 17–50. Amsterdam: Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/slcs.199.02sko

Skopeteas, S. 2016. Information structure in Modern Greek. In The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure, C. Féry and S. Ishihara (eds), 686–708. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.15

Editorial

Leal, Tania L, Bradley Hoot, Stavros Skopeteas, Joseph V. Castillas, Oksana Laleko (eds.) 2025. Experimental approaches to the acquisition of information structure. Research Topic in Frontiers in Psychology.

Georgakopoulos, Thanasis, Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou, Miltos Pechlivanos, Artemis Alexiadou, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Alexis Kalokairinos, Stavros Skopeteas and Katerina Stathi (eds.) 2017. Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Linguistics 12, 2 vols. (ISBN, Vol. 1: 978-3-946142-34-8, Vol. 2: 978-3-946142-35-5). Berlin: Edition Romiosine/CeMoG.

Fischer, Susann, Gärtner, Hans-Martin, Klabunde, Ralf, Skopeteas, Stavros and Zerbian, Sabine 2016 (eds.), Special issue on formal pragmatics, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, vol. 35, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2016-0001

Höfler, Concha, Stefanie Böhm, Konstanze Jungbluth, Stavros Skopeteas (eds.) 2016. Urum and Pontic Greeks: Communities and Language Situation. Special Issue in Language Typology and Universals, vol. 69, issue 2.

Helmbrecht, Johannes, Yoko Nishina, Yong-Min Shin, Stavros Skopeteas, Elisabeth Verhoeven (eds.) 2009, Form and Function in Language Research. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Verhoeven, Elisabeth, Skopeteas, Stavros, Shin, Yong-Min, Nishina, Yoko, Helmbrecht, Johannes (eds.) 2008, Studies on Grammaticalization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Booij, Geert, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, Stavros Skopeteas (eds.) 2004. Morphology: An International Handbook on Inflection and Word-Formation, Vol. II. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.

Further publications

Research Gate

Academia


projects

Socio-economic transformations, communicative practices, and indigenous grammars
B. Blaha, S. Skopeteas, E. Verhoeven
UNAM, DFG
2024 - 2027
Belief states of vulnerable groups in crises in Latin America
O. Kellert, S. Skopeteas
DFG
2022 - 2023
Ergativity and information structure: Comparing Chibchan languages
C. Chamoreau, S. Skopeteas, E. Verhoeven
ANR, DFG
2020 - 2025
Yucatec Maya: Variation in Space and Time
B. Blaha, S. Skopeteas, E. Verhoeven
Conacyt, DFG
2018 - 2023
Focus and thematic role assignment: A comparison of Hungarian and German in Child Language Comprehension
P. Knoeferle, S. Skopeteas
DFG (XPrag.de)
2014 - 2019
Curriculum project: Language in Context
F. Ahoua, S. Skopeteas
DAAD
2018 - 2023
The impact of current transformational processes on language and ethnic identity: Urum and Pontic Greeks in Georgia
K. Jungbluth, S. Skopeteas
VW
2013 - 2017

research units

Research Training Group 2636 Form-meaning mismatches
PI, University of Göttingen
DFG
2020 - present
Postclassical Greek Network
member, University of Cologne and University of Würzburg
DFG
2022 - present
Göttingen Centre Text Structures
PI, University of Göttingen
University of Göttingen
2017 - present
Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology
PI, Bielefeld University
DFG
2012 - 2017

websites

Atlas of Yucatec Maya online
Blaha Pfeiler, B., Skopeteas, S. Verhoeven, E.
Glottothèque: Ancient Indo-European Languages online

Dalpedri, S., Keydana, G., Skopeteas, S.

Glottothèque: Languages of Anatolia, Caucasus, Iran, Mesopotamia

Bulut, C, Donabédian-Demopoulos, A., Haig, G., Khan, G., Samvelian, P., Skopeteas, S., Sumbatova N.

Glottothèque: Mayan Languages

Gutierrez Bravo, R., Skopeteas, S. & Verhoeven, E.


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