Maria Kyriakaki

English and Modern Languages

Ptychion, University of Athens; MA, University of Toronto; PhD, University of Toronto

Maria Kyriakaki has been a member of the Deree part-time faculty since 2015. She is currently teaching Modern Languages, German and Greek, as well as English for Academic Purposes. Dr. Kyriakaki has previously taught various language and linguistics courses in academic and non-academic institutions in Canada and Greece.

Her research interests lie in the areas of syntax, semantics, morphology and their interface, as well as language acquisition and education. Her published work focuses on crosslinguistic definiteness phenomena and is presented in national and international conferences. She has been a member of various associations, such as Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, the Syntax Group Project, Canadian Linguistic Association, and the Linguist List.