Angela Ralli (https://www.angelaralli.gr) was born in Mytilene and is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics of the University of Patras. In 2013, she was elected member of the Academia Europaea and in 2019 member of the Academia’s Linguistics Committee. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Montreal but has also studies in Italian and French Philology at the universities of Perugia and Grenoble, respectively. Angela Ralli speaks fluently four languages (Greek, English, French, Italian) and has a research competence in Turkish, Russian, German and Spanish. Her main expertise area is theoretical linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic, while she is also involved in research in computational linguistics. In the past twenty years, she has developed an interest in the morphological variation of Modern Greek dialects, the contact of Greek with other languages, and the documentation and preservation of Greek linguistic heritage. She has directed numerous Greek and international research projects, has participated/participates in many projects coordinated outside Greece, and has organized research expeditions in Asia Minor and South Italy within the purpose of discovering, collecting and documenting Greek-based dialectal material.
Angela Ralli has been guest speaker at many international conferences, visiting scholar at various European, American and Asian Universities, and is member of the scientific board of world-wide renowned journals. She has over 200 peer-reviewed publications, among which, books and articles, and her book Morphology ([2005], 2022, Patakis Publications) is distributed as the principal coursebook in the morphology classes of Greek universities. During her carrier, she has been awarded various grants and scholarships, among which, those by Princeton University (2012) and the Royal Belgian Academy (2009, 2014), and eight of her Ph.D. students have now academic positions in Greece and abroad.
Angela Ralli has created the Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects at the University of Patras, the only one in a Greek university, and has founded two international conferences, the Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (1997) and the Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (2000), which are organized in different countries on a biennial basis.