Michail I. Marinis

Michail I. Marinis is a linguist specializing in morphology, inflectional systems, and language contact, with particular expertise in Modern Greek dialects and Greek in Southern Italy. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Patras, Greece, supported by competitive fellowships from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. He has held research and teaching positions in Europe and the United States, and he is currently collaborating with Brian D. Joseph as a postdoctoral fellow at OSU on The LaViN Project: Language in the Historical Archive of To Vima and Ta Nea, which explores diachronic language patterns in the Greek press. His recent work, published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Folia Linguistica, Journal of Greek Linguistics, and Transactions of the Philological Society, spans topics in Greek inflectional typology, contact-induced change, and morphophonological variation. Among his contributions are the formulation of the concept of antidefectiveness in inflectional morphology and the proposal of a special toponymic grammar in Greek. He is also a contributor to the forthcoming Brill Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. As a CHS Fellow at Harvard University, he is conducting the project When the Previously Differentiated Become Identical: What the Diachrony of Greek Inflectional Syncretism Can Teach Us (GreDIS), which investigates how the evolution of syncretic forms in Greek nominal paradigms can offer broader insights into morphological change across time and space.