Kiki Nikiforidou
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kiki Nikiforidou plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1876-1933 | E-ISSN 1876-1941
Titles
Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective
Edited by Kiki Nikiforidou and Mirjam Fried
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 38] 2025. vi, 317 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre
Edited by Kerstin Fischer and Kiki Nikiforidou
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 7:2 (2015) v, 243 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Advances in Frame Semantics
Edited by Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou
[Benjamins Current Topics, 58] 2013. v, 209 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2025 Multimodality, conventionality and inheritance in dialogic constructions Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective, Nikiforidou, Kiki and Mirjam Fried (eds.), pp. 38–68 | Chapter
The chapter investigates the multimodal correlates of a family of dialogic challenging constructions in Modern Greek, anchored to the form ela (2nd person singular imperative of the verb erxome ‘come’). First, prosodic features of these constructions are analyzed in terms of intonation… read more
2025 Grammar and multimodality: An introduction Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective, Nikiforidou, Kiki and Mirjam Fried (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter
2022 Constructional analysis Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 310–324 | Chapter
2020 Dialogic constructions and discourse units: The case of think again Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2, pp. 480–518 | Article
Adopting a constructionally-oriented analysis, the present paper examines the pattern ‘think again’ (i.e., an instance of a mental state verb + adverbial adjunct) in synchronic, corpus-derived data. On the basis of both qualitative and quantitative analyses we show that think again merits… read more
2020 On the polysemy of motion verbs in Ancient Greek and Coptic: Why lexical constructions are important Studies in Language 44:1, pp. 27–69 | Article
In this paper, we propose a constructional analysis of the meanings of two generic motion verbs in Ancient Greek and Coptic (Sahidic dialect), the verbs baínō and bôk, respectively, both of which are glossed as ‘go’ and are characterized by extensive polysemy. We argue that an adequate analysis… read more
2018 Genre and constructional analysis Cognitive Perspectives on Genre, Vergaro, Carla (ed.), pp. 543–575 | Article
Constructional approaches to genre model genre knowledge in terms of genre-based constructions. Like all constructions, these represent conventionalized pairings of meaning and form, of varying degrees of length and schematicity, whose pragmatic specifications include their association with a… read more
2015 Grammatical constructions and cross-text generalizations: Empathetic narration as genre On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre, Fischer, Kerstin and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 181–217 | Article
This paper investigates two tense-based constructions in English and Greek and one complementation construction in Greek, whose import is to effect a deictic shift and allow narration to proceed from the point of view of the narrated events and a participant therein. In addition to the individual… read more
2015 On the interaction of constructions with register and genre On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre, Fischer, Kerstin and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 137–147 | Article
2010 Indeterminacy in grammar and acquisition: An interdisciplinary approach to relative clauses Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8:1, pp. 1–18 | Article
The formalist definition of relative clauses as a clearly distinct construction with two syntactically linked clauses has been recently questioned by cross-linguistic evidence. It is here further undermined by a discussion of constructions in Modern Greek, which although deviating from the… read more
2010 Variably future-marked conditionals in Greek: Integrating discourse and grammar Constructions and Frames 2:1, pp. 90–123 | Article
It has been proposed that future-marked conditionals have discourse-pragmatic functions other than future temporal reference (Comrie 1982, Fillmore 1990, Dancygier & Sweetser 2005). Through a corpus-based multivariate analysis we show that future-marked conditionals in Greek are associated with… read more
2009 Constructional analysis Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, Brisard, Frank, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 16–32 | Article
2009 Constructional analysis Handbook of Pragmatics: 2009 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Article
2007 The construction of meaning in relative clauses: Indeterminacy and constraints Aspects of Meaning Construction, Radden, Günter, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg and Peter Siemund (eds.), pp. 189–205 | Article
Greek relative clauses introduced by pu have been described as structurally determined constructions in which interpretation is precisely guided by the syntax of the clause. In contrast to this oversimplified view, I show that pu relatives regularly underspecify the intended interpretation,… read more
2002 Deictic motion and the adoption of perspective in Greek Pragmatics 12:3, pp. 273–295 | Article
In this paper we examine the semantics-pragmatics of the deictic motion verb erxome ‘come’ in central and extended uses. We argue that a detailed language-specific analysis of erxome and its systemic counterpart pijeno ‘go’ is necessary, since even at the level of basic appropriateness conditions,… read more
2000 Subjectivity and Conditionality: The Marking of Speaker Involvement in Modern Greek Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Foolen, Ad and Frederike van der Leek (eds.), pp. 217–238 | Article
1996 Modern Greek As: A Case Study in Grammaticalization and Grammatical Polysemy Studies in Language 20:3, pp. 599–632 | Article
The grammaticalization of as from a lexical imperative of Ancient Greek to a particle of Modern Greek follows some well-identified trends in historical linguistics. An adequate description of the change needs to refer simultaneously to semantic, syntactic and phonological parameters, which makes as… read more
1994 Structural and cross-linguistic regularities in the history of three particles Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993, Philippaki-Warburton, Irene, Katerina Nicolaidis and Maria Sifianou (eds.), pp. 169–176 | Article