Projects

MetBib - March 01, 2013 - Present

MetBib is an online platform that provides the user with abstracts of articles related to Metaphor, Metonymy, and other figurative language. Our coordinator, Professor Angeliki Athanasiadou, is associate editor. Currently, M. Lampropoulou, I.Karatsori, T. Xioufis, G. Amoiridis, K. Tsapakidou, Thomai Dalpanagioti, Vivian Pavlopoulou and Maria Tsitoura are in the editorial board.

Cognitive Modelling (CogMod) Research Project

Project launches: December 2015
The aim of the present research project is the development, internationalization and pedagogical application of the principles of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) as initially formulated by Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal (2008, 2009). It is an international project co-ordinated by Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza and Lorena Pérez Hernández.

The project consists in the creation of an on-line database that will contain fields for figures of speech and constructions of all kinds in English supplied with their (rough) equivalents in other European Languages (Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Croatian, Hungarian, Danish and Swedish) and with an outline of meaning differences with English. Families of constructions that prove productive for this kind of study for different languages will be exhaustively elaborated on the basis of previous work carried out in relation to English. This will contribute to filling in one of the gaps in cognitivist approaches to language, i.e. the lack of wide-ranging cross-linguistic analyses.

Greek Team