Lefteris Paparounas
[lɛfˈtʰɛɹɪs ˌpʰæpəˈɹuːnəs]
paparounas[dot]lefteris[at]uqam[dot]ca
CV

I'm an Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

I work on syntactic and morphological theory, with a focus on argument structure, binding, agreement, clitic doubling, and allomorphy. I specialize in (Modern) Greek and Turkish.

I received my PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2023. My dissertation, Voice from syntax to syncretism, can be accessed here.

Recent Updates

Oct '25: Terrance Gatchalian, Jessica Coon and I gave a talk on stative verbs in Kanienʼkéha at NELS 56. (proceedings paper in prep.)
Sept '25: WCCFL paper on ATB movement and case (with Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann) is on lingbuzz.

Writings

Please email me for anything not linked to here, and see my CV for talks etc.

Thesis

2023
Voice from syntax to syncretism. Doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.

Journal articles

In prep.
Two types of non-structural Case: Evidence from ATB movement in Modern Greek. (with Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann)
Under revision
Reflexivity and external argument introduction: Insights from Greek.
Submitted
Greek stative passives as small non-passives.
Resubmitted
The argument structure of Turkish verbal reflexives. (with Faruk Akkuş)
2024
The syntax of Greek split reciprocals. Syntax. (with Martin Salzmann)
2024
Visibility and intervention in allomorphy: Lessons from Modern Greek. Linguistic Inquiry. [preprint]
2023
Anaphora and agreement in the Turkish DP: Delimiting binding-through-Agree. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. (with Faruk Akkuş)
2023
First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. (with Martin Salzmann)
2023
First Conjunct Clitic Doubling, the Person Case Constraint, and First Conjunct Agreement: Insights from Modern Greek. Glossa Special Collection 309: Multivaluation in Agreement. (with Martin Salzmann)

Chapters in edited volumes

To appear
Blocking effects. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, ed. by P. Ackema, S. Bendjaballah, E. Bonet, and A. Fábregas. (with David Embick and Johanna Benz)

Conference proceedings

In prep.
A unified syntax and semantics of Kanien'kéha statives. In Proceedings of NELS 56. (with Terrance Gatchalian and Jessica Coon)
In press
ATB movement and non-structural Case in Modern Greek. In Proceedings of WCCFL 43. (with Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann)
2025
Thematic reversals in stative non-passives. In Proceedings of NELS 55.
2024
Turkish verbal reflexives and movement. In Proceedings of NELS 54. (with Faruk Akkuş)
2023
Reciprocal = Floating quantifier + anaphor: Evidence from Greek discontinuous reciprocals. In Proceedings of NELS 53, ed. by Suet-Ying Lam and Satoru Ozaki. Amherst, MA: GLSA. (with Martin Salzmann)
2023
Phrasal layering versus complex heads in Greek stative passives. In Proceedings of NELS 53, ed. by Suet-Ying Lam and Satoru Ozaki. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2022
First Conjunct Clitic Doubling: Implications for Theories of the PCC and Approaches to First Conjunct Agreement. In CLS 57: Proceedings from the 57th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. (with Martin Salzmann)
2022
Reflexivization, intransitivity, and Voice. In Proceedings of PLC 46.
2021
First conjunct clitic doubling: Evidence for Agree-based approaches. In Proceedings of WCCFL 39. (with Martin Salzmann)
2021
Binding through Agree in Turkish. In Proceedings of NELS 51, ed. by A. Farinella & A. Hill. Amherst, MA: GLSA. (with Faruk Akkuş)
2021
Default by intervention: Allomorphy and locality in the Modern Greek verb. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol 6.1, ed. by P. Farell.
2021
Implicit complements and the identity condition on ellipsis. In CLS 56: Proceedings from the 56th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.
2020
The Anaphor Agreement Effect in the nominal domain: Evidence from Turkish. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol 5.1, ed. by P. Farell. (with Faruk Akkuş)

Edited volumes

2021
Penn Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings of the 44th annual Penn Linguistics Conference, Vol 27.1. (with Alexandros Kalomoiros)

Contact

Email

paparounas[dot]lefteris[at]uqam[dot]ca

Office

A-3610, Département de linguistique
Pavillon Hubert-Aquin, Université du Québec à Montréal
400, rue Sainte-Catherine Est
Montréal (Québec) H2L 2C5
Canada

Postal address

Département de linguistique
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville
Montréal (Québec) H3C 3P8
Canada