Elena Anagnostopoulou is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Crete. In 2019 she was elected a member of Academia Europaea and since 2023 she has been a Collaborating Faculty Member of IMS-FORTH.

Prof. Anagnostopoulou’s research interests cover:

• theoretical syntax
• comparative syntax
• formal linguistic typology
• morphology
• historical morphosyntax.

Recently, she has developed an interest in historical linguistics and in phylogenetic research. She was international Co-Investigator of a 2017-2019 grant on the diachrony and dialectal variation of case patterns in Greek (Ulster University) funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK. Moreover, she has established an interdisciplinary group of linguists, evolutionary and computational biologists as PI of two grants on language as an evolvable system, funded by the University of Crete, co-PI Manolis Ladoukakis, Department of Biology, and by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation H.F.R.I.

In 2023 Elena Anagnostopoulou obtained a grant from the European Research Council for the project entitled “Phylogenies probing Grammar. Exploring morphosyntax at different scales of language change”. This is an interdisciplinary project which aims to seek a new way to evaluate morphosyntx in terms of the historical information it contains by using computation methods inspired by evolutionary biology.

Marcin Zabawa, PhD, DLitt, Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Silesia, author of three monographs (English Lexical and Semantic Loans in Informal Spoken Polish, Katowice 2012, English Semantic Loans, Loan Translations, and Loan Renditions in Informal Polish of Computer Users, Katowice 2017, English Lexical Loans in Informal Polish of Computer Users, in print), co-editor of three monographs, and author of over 60 research articles.

His research interests include language contact, various types of English borrowings in Polish (lexical borrowings, semantic borrowings, calques), contemporary Polish and its transformations, lexical and semantic innovations in English and Polish, corpus linguistics, and lexicography.