Mertyris Dionysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Historical Linguistics, Dialectology, Morphology, Syntax

EDUCATION

2008-2014 La Trobe University, Department of Linguistics: Ph.D. Topic: The loss of the genitive in Greek: A diachronic and dialectological analysis.

2006-2008 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Greek Philology, Sector of Linguistics: MA in Theoretical Linguistics.

2001-2006 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Greek Philology: BA In Greek Philology (Major in Linguistics).

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2017-2019 Ulster University: Research Associate of the research project Investigating variation and change: Case in diachrony.

FIELDWORK

2019 Documentation of Northern Greek varieties in the Prefectures of Grevena and Kozani and of Pontic varieties in the Prefectures of Pieria and Imathia. The transcription of the material has been submitted to the Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects (KENDI-ILNE) of the Academy of Athens (manuscript 1542).

2008 Documentation of the Austronesian language Kara in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming: Anagnostopoulou E., D. Mertyris & C. Sevdali (eds.). On the place of case in Grammar. Oxford University Press.

Forthcoming: Anagnostopoulou E., M. Macleod, D. Mertyris & C. Sevdali (υπό έκδοση).  Genitive and datives with Ancient Greek three-place predicates. In E. Anagnostopoulou, D. Mertyris & C. Sevdali (eds.) On the place of case in Grammar. Oxford University Press.

Forthcoming: Mertyris D. Analytic cases. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Brill.

Forthcoming: Mertyris D. Genitive. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Brill.

Forthcoming: Mertyris D. Genitive absolute. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Brill.

Forthcoming: Mertyris D. Nominal system (gender, number, case). Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Brill.

Forthcoming: Mertyris, D. Partitive. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Brill.

Forthcoming: Mertyris D. Possession. Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Brill.

2022: Anagnostopoulou E., D. Mertyris, C. Sevdali. High and Low Arguments in Northern and Pontic Greek. Languages 7(3):238.

2022: Luraghi S. & D.Mertyris. Basic valency in diachrony: from Αncient to Modern Greek. In S. Luraghi & E. Roma (eds.), Valency over Time, pp. 169-208. Mouton De Gruyter.

2021: Macleod M., E. Anagnostopoulou, D. Mertyris & C. Sevdali. The DiGreC Treebank. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences 6: 1-12.

2019: Mertyris D. Defective genitives of ι-neuter nouns in Modern Greek: the role of synizesis. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, Gjirokastër, Albania, 4-6/10/2018: 163-176.

2019: Mertyris D. Morphological contamination in dialectal Greek: ‘accusative-like’ genitives. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Modern Greek dialects and Linguistic Theory, Rethymno, Greece, 4-6/10/2016: 145-155.

2018: Κισιλιέρ M. & Δ. Μερτύρης. Περί της γενικής στα Τσακώνικα ουσιαστικά. Χρονικά των Τσακώνων 23 (2). Πρακτικά του 8ου συνεδρίου του Αρχείου Τσακωνιάς, Λεωνίδιο, 9-11/9/2016: 219-242.

2017: Μερτύρης Δ. & M. Κισιλιέρ. Η γενική στη Μαριουπολίτικη διάλεκτο: διατήρηση και απώλεια. Studies in Greek Linguistics 37, Thessaloniki, Greece, 12-14/5/2016: 465-476.

2015: Mertyris D. Dissertation Summaries. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 15.1: 159-169.

2014: Mertyris D. Deflexion in Northern Greek: the loss of the genitive. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Rhodes, Greece, 26-29/9/2013: 1100-1112.

2013: Mertyris D. Accusative-genitive syncretism in the nominal inflection of Modern Greek dialects. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, Ghent, Belgium, 20-22/9/2012: 335-352.

2011: Mertyris D. The loss of the genitive plural in the personal pronouns of Medieval and Modern Greek. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Chicago, USA, 29-31/10/2009: 480-491.

2009: Mertyris D. The grammaticalization of the future in Greek and Bulgarian. Proceedings of the 1st Patras International Conference of Graduate Students in Linguistics, Patras, Greece, 28-30/3/2008: 222-230.