Research

Research Interests

Angela Ralli is interested in morphology, dialectal morphology, language contact, computational morphology, typology, the interaction of morphology with syntax and phonology and the mental lexicon.

In 2000, Angela Ralli founded the Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects, the first in a Greek academic milieu, and began to organize the International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT). The Laboratory, its publications and MGDLT (see full-size CV) have contributed to the revival of interest concerning dialectal research in Greece. Angela Ralli is particularly active in the field of preserving language heritage. In this framework, she has conducted research expeditions to South Italy (Salento), Pontus, Cappadocia, Cunda (former Moschonisi) and Aivali (today's Ayvalik) and has documented linguistic systems which are on the way to extinction. Her fieldwork led to the collection of about 440 hours of dialectal oral corpora, organized in databases, and to the development of a tri-dialectal electronic dictionary for the dialects Pontic, Cappadocian and Aivaliot. She has also edited and published unedited dialectal texts, the first linguistically-based dictionary of Moschonisiot, Aivaliot and North-Eastern Lesbian, and is currently building an electronic dialectal atlas for Lesbos, the first to be ever produced in Greece (www.lesvos.lmgd.philology.upatras.gr).

Her numerous publications (over 200) consist of monographs and peer-reviewed articles in international journals, collective volumes and conference presentations.  Angela Ralli has edited numerous international volumes and has been repeatedly invited by foreign universities, institutes to present her work (Ohio-State University, McGill, Concordia, UQAM, University of Toronto, Simon Fraser University, Tokyo (Gakushuin), Cambridge, Amsterdam, Tilburg, Meertens Institute, Geneva, Trondheim, Kosice, Bologna, Torino, Trieste, L'Aquila, Catania, Potenza). She has been a guest speaker at many international conferences and is the founder and editor of the Patras Working Papers in Linguistics.