Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Geri Popova

MA in English Language and Literature, Sofia University, Bulgaria, 1995; PhD University of Essex, UK, 2006.
Lecturer at Sofia University 1996 – 2000; Visiting Lecturer at Middlesex University 2003-2007; Associate Lecturer at The Open University 2003 – 2007; Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London October 2005 – January 2006; at Goldsmiths since 2007.

Teaching

I teach on the core courses and two option modules of the MA in Applied Linguistics: Sociocultural Approaches; I also teach and convene the BA option Language and the Media.

Professional activities

I have taken part in the organization of various linguistic events; I am a member of The Philological Society and the Linguistic Association of Great Britain.

Research interests

My research to date has been mostly in theoretical linguistics, focusing on morphology and lexical semantics. I have been particularly interested in the category of verbal aspect. I am working currently on multiword constructions – their canonical and non-canonical properties. I am also interested in how data from language acquisition can help understand linguistic phenomena (for example periphrases).  I have worked extensively as a translator and interpreter and this relates to an interest in texts and discourse analysis.

Selected publications

• ‘Features in Periphrastic Constructions’. To appear, under review. In: Kibort, A. and G. G. Corbett (eds) Features: Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Aspect In the Morphological Paradigm. 2006. PhD Thesis, University of Essex.
• Essex Research Reports in Linguistics. 2005. Edited, with Ryo Otoguro and Andrew Spencer. Department of Language and Linguistics. University of Essex.
• ‘Integrating Nominalisations into a (Generalised) Paradigm Function Model of Morphology’. 2005. In: Ryo Otoguro, Gergana Popova and Andrew Spencer (eds.) Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 47.
• Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader. 2004. (edited, with Bas Aarts, David Denison and Evelien Keizer). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• ‘The Nature of Grammatical Categories and Their Representation’. 2004. With Bas Aarts, David Denison and Evelien Keizer. In: Bas Aarts, David Denison, Evelien Kaizer and Gergana Popova (eds.) Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1-28.
• ‘Bulgarian Aspect in Paradigm-Function Morphology’. 2004. In: Alexandra Galani and Beck Sinar (eds) Papers from the first York-Essex Morphology Meeting. Special volume of the York Papers in Linguistics, Series 2. Issue 2. 79-92.
• ‘An HPSG-based Syntactic Treebank of Bulgarian (BulTreeBank)’. 2002. With Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova. In: Anthony McEnery, Paul Rayson and Andrew Wilson (eds.) A Rainbow of corpora: Corpus Linguistics and the Languages of the world. Munich: Lincom Europa. 135-142.