Katherine Hodgson’s research interests include syntax, information structure, linguistic typology, historical linguistics, dialectology, and language documentation, particularly in connection with Armenian and Greek. She is currently working on the ERC-funded project Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: a Linguistic History of Minorities in the Middle East. She has also carried out an ELDP-funded project documenting Zok, an endangered variety of Armenian, as well as extensive fieldwork on other dialects of Armenian and Greek, including Pontic Greek as spoken in Armenia.
Her research interests include: syntax, information structure, historical linguistics, language documentation, Armenian, Modern Greek.
Recent research projects: Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: a Linguistic History of Minorities in the Middle East (ERC)
A Documentation of the Zok Language (ELDP)
Published Works:
Hodgson, Katherine. 2022. Grammaticalization of the definite article in Armenian. Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies 1, https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/armeniaca/2022/1/grammaticalization-of-the-definite-article-in-arme/?fbclid=IwAR28G0zVQncBxfsI1pCVYT07_f1ZQQyMTTlidWPv5ZjvsQ8AyKGgqjofoW0
Hodgson, Katherine. 2022. Non-syntactic factors and accessibility to relativization: evidence from Armenian. Linguistics, doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0035
Hodgson, Katherine & Victoria Khurshudyan. 2022. Word order and information structure. In Christiane Bulut, Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan, Pollet Samvelian, Stavros Skopeteas, Nina Sumbatova (eds.), Glottothèque: Languages of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Mesopotamia; grammatical snippets online (electronic resource). Bamberg, Cambridge, Göttingen, Moscow, Nicosia, Paris: LACIM network.
Hodgson, Katherine. 2022. Determination and noun phrase structure. In Christiane Bulut, Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan, Pollet Samvelian, Stavros Skopeteas, Nina Sumbatova (eds.), Glottothèque: Languages of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Mesopotamia; grammatical snippets online (electronic resource). Bamberg,Cambridge, Göttingen, Moscow, Nicosia, Paris: LACIM network.
Hodgson, Katherine. 2022. Complex clauses. In Christiane Bulut, Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan, Pollet Samvelian, Stavros Skopeteas, Nina Sumbatova (eds.), Glottothèque: Languages of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Mesopotamia; grammatical snippets online (electronic resource). Bamberg, Cambridge, Göttingen, Moscow, Nicosia, Paris: LACIM network.
Hodgson, Katherine. 2020. Finite relative clauses in Eastern Armenian and the phenomenon of ‘inverse attraction’. Lingua 246: 102950
Hodgson, Katherine. 2019. Discourse Configurationality and the Noun Phrase in Eastern Armenian. Faits de Langues 50:2 137-166.
Hodgson, Katherine. 2010. Morphological Evidence for the Origins of a Pontic Greek Community in Armenia. Studies in Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki: Institute of Modern Greek Studies. 237-248.
Hodgson, Katherine, Victoria Khurshudyan & Pollet Samvelian (to appear) Post-predicate arguments in Modern Eastern Armenian. In Post-predicate elements in the Western Asia transition zone. A corpus-based approach to areal typology. Geoffrey Haig, Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand, Donald Stilo, Laurentia Schreiber, Nils Schiborr (eds.). Language Science Press.
Hodgson, Katherine, Victoria Khurshudyan & Anaïd Donabédian (to appear) Word order, anaphora, and topicality in Eastern Armenian. In Topicality and the shaping of grammar: New perspectives from lesser-known languages. Claudine Chamoreau, Anaïd Donabédian and Enrique Palancar (eds.).