Nikolaos LavidasNikolaos Lavidas is Associate Professor of Diachronic Linguistics at the University of Athens, Greece. He holds a B.A. in Philology (specialization: Linguistics), an M.A. in Linguistics (with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Founation) and a Ph.D. in Linguistics (with a scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Prior to his employment at the University of Athens, he was Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a postdoctoral researcher (with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation) at the University of the Aegean and the University of Athens, and he taught Linguistics at the University of Peloponnese, the University of Patras and the University of the Aegean. His research interests lie in the areas of language change, (historical) language contact, historical corpora, and syntax-semantics interface. Read More Read Less