[MGSA-L] Linguistics Professor to Be Awarded Leibniz Prize

[June Samaras]

Linguistics Professor to Be Awarded Leibniz Prize
Posted: 20 Jan 2014 04:29 AM PST

Linguists Professor at the University of Stuttgart Artemis Alexiadou will
be awarded the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 for her
successful and prolific research career in the field of modern grammatical
theory.

Born in 1969 in Volos, Greece, Artemis Alexiadou studied philology and
linguistics in Athens and Reading before moving to Potsdam, where she wrote
her doctorate and then habilitated in 1999. After receiving a Heisenberg
fellowship from the DFG, she was appointed professor of theoretical and
English linguistics at the University of Stuttgart in 2002.

The Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (German research foundation) every year since 1985
to scientists working in Germany. The award ceremony for the Leibniz Prizes
will be held on March 12, in Berlin.

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