• morphosyntactic impairments in adult neurogenic language disorders (e.g., aphasia, dementia of the Alzheimer type, multiple sclerosis)
• relationship between memory systems/executive functions and morphosyntax
• impact of bilingualism/multilingualism on cognitive and language abilities
• nature of the mechanisms supporting bilingual language control

2009: PhD in Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of Philosophy, School of Philology, Department of Linguistics), Greece

Dissertation topic: Functional categories in Greek agrammatism

2003: MA in Applied Linguistics: “Teaching Modern Greek as a mother tongue and as a second/foreign language.” Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (School of Philology, School of French Language and Literature, School of English Language and Literature, School of Philosophy and Education, & School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Greece

Dissertation topic: The suffix –ón(as) in Modern Greek: A morphological–psycholinguistic approach

1999: Bachelor in (Greek) Philology (Specialization: Linguistics). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of Philosophy, School of Philology), Greece

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Fyndanis, V., Cameron, S., Hansen, P. B., Norvik, M. I., & Simonsen, H. G. (2022). Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory: Evidence from academics. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, First View, 1–14. Doi: 10.1017/S1366728922000621
2. Fyndanis, V., Masoura, E., Malefaki, S., Chatziadamou, E., Dosi, I., & Caplan, D. (2022). The role of working memory, short-term memory, speed of processing, education, and locality in verb-related morphosyntactic production: Evidence from Greek. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 13, 851440. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.851440
3. Fyndanis, V., Miceli, G., Capasso, R., *Killmer, H. G., Malefaki, S., & Grohmann, K. (2022). Production of sentential negation in German and Italian non-fluent aphasia. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. Doi: 10.1007/s10936-022-09894-4
4. Themistocleous, C., Fyndanis, V., & Tsapkini, K. (2022). Sonorant spectra and coarticulation distinguish speakers with different dialects. Speech Communication, 142, 1–14. Doi: 10.1016/j.specom.2022.06.002
5. De Bot, K., Plejert, C., Simonsen, H. G., Fyndanis, V., Hansen, P., Norvik, M. I., Svendsen, B. A., & Svennevig, J. (2020). Multilingualism and ageing: An overview. Brill Research Perspectives in Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition, 1(4), 1–98. Doi: 10.1163/2352877X-12340003
6. Garraffa, M., & Fyndanis, V. (2020). Linguistic theory and aphasia: An overview. Aphasiology, 34, 905–926. Doi: 10.1080/02687038.2020.1770196
7. Fyndanis, V., Messinis, L., Nasios, G., Dardiotis, E., Martzoukou, M., Pitopoulou, M., Ntoskou, A., & Malefaki, S. (2020). Selective verb-related morphosyntactic impairment in multiple sclerosis: Evidence from Greek. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 11, 2051. (13 pages) Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02051
8. Boumeester, M., Michel, M.C., & Fyndanis, V. (2019). Sequential multilingualism and cognitive abilities: Preliminary data on the contribution of language proficiency and use in different modalities. Behavioral Sciences, 9, 92. Doi: 10.3390/bs9090092
9. Fyndanis, V., & Themistocleous, C. (2019). Are there prototypical associations between time frames and aspectual values? Evidence from Greek aphasia and healthy aging. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 33, 191–217. Doi: 10.1080/02699206.2018.1480657
10. Fyndanis, V., Arcara, G., Capasso, R., Christidou, P., de Pellegrin, S., Gandolfi, M., Messinis, L., Papathanasopoulos, P., Panagea, E., Smania, N., Semenza, C., & Miceli, G. (2018). Time reference in nonfluent and fluent aphasia: A cross-linguistic test of the PAst DIscourse LInking Hypothesis. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 32, 823–843. Doi:  10.1080/02699206.2018.1445291
11. Fyndanis, V., Arcara, G., Christidou, P., & Caplan, D. (2018). Morphosyntactic production and verbal working memory: Evidence from Greek aphasia and healthy aging. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 1171–1187. Doi: 10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-17-0103
12. Fyndanis, V., Arfani, D., Varlokosta, S., Burgio, F., Maculan, A., Miceli, G., Arcara, G., Palla, F., Cagnin, A., Papageorgiou, S., & Semenza, C. (2018). Morphosyntactic production in Greek- and Italian-speaking individuals with probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from subject-verb agreement, tense/time reference, and mood. Aphasiology, 32, 61–87. Doi: 10.1080/02687038.2017.1358352
13. Rofes, A., Zakariás, L., Ceder, K., Lind, M., Blom Johansson, M., De Aguiar, V., Bjekić, J., Fyndanis, V., … & Howard, D. (2018). Imageability ratings across languages. Behavior Research Methods, 50, 1187–1197. Doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-0936-0
14. Fyndanis, V., Lind, M., Varlokosta, S., Kambanaros, M., Soroli, E., Ceder, K., … Howard, D. (2017). Cross-linguistic adaptations of The Comprehensive Aphasia Test: Challenges and solutions. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 31, 697–710. Doi: 10.1080/02699206.2017.1310299
15. Brady, M.C., Ali, M., Fyndanis, C., Kambanaros, M., Grohmann, K.K., Hernández-Sacristán, C., Laska, A.-C., & Varlokosta, S., on behalf of the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (2014). Time for a step change? Improving the efficiency, relevance, reliability, validity and transparency of aphasia rehabilitation research through core outcome measures, a common data set and improved reporting criteria. Aphasiology, 28, 1385–1392. Doi: 10.1080/02687038.2014.930261
16. Fyndanis, V., Varlokosta, S., & Tsapkini, K. (2013). (Morpho)syntactic comprehension in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from Greek. Aphasiology, 27, 398–419. Doi: 10.1080/02687038.2013.770817
17. Fyndanis, V., Manouilidou, C., Koufou, E., Karampekios, S.K., & Tsapakis, E.M. (2013). Agrammatic patterns in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from tense, agreement, and aspect. Aphasiology, 27, 178–200. Doi: 10.1080/02687038.2012.705814
18. Fyndanis, V., Varlokosta, S., & Tsapkini, K. (2012). Agrammatic production: Interpretable features and selective impairment in verb inflection. Lingua, 122, 1134–1147. Doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.05.004
19. Fyndanis, V., Varlokosta, S., & Tsapkini, K. (2010). Exploring wh-questions in agrammatism: Evidence from Greek. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 23, 644–662. Doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.06.003

Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries

1. Fyndanis, V., & Lehtonen, M. (2021). Pathological language-switching/mixing and its relationship to domain-general cognitive control. In U. Røyneland & R. Blackwood (Eds.), Multilingualism across the Lifespan (pp. 209–230). Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism (edited by M. Martin-Jones & J. Pujolar). New York & London: Routledge. Doi: 10.4324/9781003125815
2. Fyndanis, V. (2019). Verbs. In J. S. Damico & M. J. Ball (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders (pp. 2041–2045). Thousand Oaks, USA: Sage Publications, Inc. ISBN: 9781483380834 Doi: 10.4135/9781483380810.n661
3. Varlokosta, S., Stamouli, S., Karasimos, A., Markopoulos, G., Kakavoulia, M., Nerantzini, M., Fyndanis, V., Pantoula, A., Economou, A., & Protopapas, A. (2017).  A Greek corpus of aphasic discourse: Design and multilevel annotation. In A. Christofidou (Ed.), Aspects of Corpus Linguistics: Principles, applications, challenges. – Δελτίο Επιστημονικής Ορολογίας και Νεολογισμών (pp. 181–205). Athens: Academy of Athens. (in Greek)

Abstracts in Peer Reviewed Journals

1. Soilemezidi, M., Chrisikopoulou, M., & Fyndanis, V. (2022). The role of cognitive functions, demographic factors, and locality in verb-related morphosyntactic production. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 27, Supplement 2, 259–262.
2. Pourquié, M., Arslan, S., Grima, R., Fyndanis, V., Kambanaros, M., Martínez-Ferreiro, S., Munarriz-Ibarrola, A., Norvik, M. I., Peñaloza, C., Python. G., Soroli, E., Sze, W. P. & the Mutlilingual Aphasia Practice (MAP) Group (Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists Working Group 2). (2022). The “MAP survey”: An international investigation of SLPs’ training and working practices to assess and treat plurilingual people with aphasia. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 27, Supplement 2, 100–102.
3. Fyndanis, V., Soilemezidi, M., & Kalpakidi, T. (2022). Impaired production of time reference in aphasia: Disentangling encoding from retrieval deficits. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 27, Supplement 2, 286–288.
4. Fyndanis, V., Messinis, L., Nasios, G., Dardiotis, E., Martzoukou, M., Pitopoulou, M., Ntoskou, K., & Malefaki, S. (2019). Impaired verb-related morphosyntactic production in Multiple Sclerosis: Evidence from Greek. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 24, Supplement, 121–124.
5. Fyndanis, V., & Themistocleous, C. (2019). Morphosyntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: A cross-linguistic machine learning approach. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 56th Annual Meeting. Doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.228.00075
6. Terzi, A., Barampati, H., & Fyndanis, V. (2019). Syntactic comprehension in Parkinson’s disease: Type of embedding and canonicity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 56th Annual Meeting.Doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.228.00074
7. Fyndanis, V., Themistocleous, C., & Christidou, P. (2017). Time reference and aspect in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from Greek. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 55th Annual Meeting.Doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00080
8. Fyndanis, V., Arcara, G., Arfani, D., Burchert, F., Burgio, F., Cagnin, A., … & Wartenburger, I. (2016). Time reference in agrammatic aphasia and probable Alzheimer’s disease: A cross-linguistic test of the PAst DIscourse LInking Hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 54th Annual Meeting. Doi: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00097
9. Rofes, A., Zakariás, L., Ceder, K., Lind, M., Blom Johansson, M., Bjekić, J., Fyndanis, V., … & Howard, D. (2016). Word imageability from a cross-linguistic perspective. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 21, 158–161.Doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33521.68963
10. Fyndanis, V., Arfani, D., Burgio, F., Maculan, A., Palla, F., Varlokosta, S., … & Semenza, C. (2016). Morphosyntactic production in Greek and Italian probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from agreement, tense, and mood. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 21, 3–6.
11. Fyndanis, V., Semenza, C., Capasso, R., Gandolfi, M., De Pellegrin, S., Arcara, G., … & Miceli, G. (2015). Production of subject-verb agreement, tense, mood, and negation in Italian agrammatic aphasia. Frontiers in Psychology. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 53rd Annual Meeting.
12. Fyndanis, V., Semenza, C., Capasso, R., Gandolfi, M., Smania, N., Burgio, F., … & Miceli, G. (2015). Morphosyntactic and syntactic production in Italian-speaking agrammatic aphasia. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 20, 130–133.
13. Nerantzini, M., Fyndanis, V., Terzi, A., & Varlokosta, S. (2015). Case and agreement in Greek aphasia: Evidence from comprehension. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 20, 95–97.
14. Fyndanis, V., Nerantzini, M., Terzi, A., & Varlokosta, S (2014). Structural case in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from Greek. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 19, 35–38.
15. Fyndanis, V., Nerantzini, M., & Pavlidou, C. (2013). Morphosyntactic production in agrammatism: The role of non-local dependencies. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 94, 11–12. Doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.09.002
16. Molympaki, E., Nerantzini, M., Fyndanis, V., Papageorgiou, S., & Varlokosta, S. (2013). Comprehension abilities in Greek-speaking individuals with probable Alzheimer’s Disease: Evidence from wh-questions and relative clauses. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 94, 131-132. Doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.09.063
17. Fyndanis, V. (2013). Subcortical lesions and agrammatic aphasia: A case study in a highly inflected language. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 18, 39–43.
18. Fyndanis, V. (2012). Basal ganglia and linguistic performance: A case study. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 61, 252–254.Doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.10.173
19. Fyndanis, V., Nerantzini, M., Pavlidou, C., Mihali, T., & Nasios, G. (2012). Investigating potential sentence length effects in agrammatic performance: Evidence from morphosyntax. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 17, 36–38.
20. Fyndanis, V., Manouilidou, C., Koufou, E., & Tsapakis, E.M. (2011). Grammatical disorders in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from verb inflection in Greek. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 23, 221–222. Doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.09.248
21. Fyndanis, V. (2010). Short-term memory and language processing: Extending an interactive model to capture sentence-level data. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 6, 70–71. Doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.08.036
22. Fyndanis, V., Tsapkini, K., Varlokosta, S., Petropoulou, K., & Papathanasiou, I. (2006). Negation in agrammatism: Evidence from Greek. Brain and Language, 99, 162–163. Doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.06.090

Papers in Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

1. Varlokosta, S., Stamouli, S., Karasimos, A., Markopoulos, G., Kakavoulia, M., Nerantzini, M., Pantoula, A., Fyndanis, V., Economou, A., & Protopapas, A. (2016). A Greek corpus of aphasic discourse: Collection, transcription, and annotation specifications. In D. Kokkinakis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2016 Workshop: Resources and Processing of Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive/ Psychiatric Impairments (RaPID) 2016. Available PDF at http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/128/003/ecp16128003.pdf
2. Fyndanis, V., Nerantzini, M., Choudala, I., & Tsapakis, E. M. (2014). Production of functional categories in agrammatic aphasia and task-related processing demands: The role of ±distant cues. In G. Kotzoglou et al. (Eds), Selected Papers of the 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (pp. 428–438). Rhodes, Greece: University of the Aegean.
3. Fyndanis, V. (2012). Comprehension in Greek-speaking agrammatism: A case study. In Z. Gavriilidou, A. Efthymiou, E. Thomadaki, & P. Kambakis-Vougiouklis (Eds), Selected Papers of the 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (pp. 265-274). Komotini, Greece: Democritus University of Thrace.
4. Fyndanis, V., Manouilidou, C., Koufou, E., & Tsapakis, E.M. (2012). Tense, subject-verb agreement and aspect in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from Greek. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 32, 89–99.
5. Fyndanis, V. & Galiussi, F. (2011). Networks of canonical and mirror neurons and language teaching. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 31, 554–564. (in Greek) Available on-line: http://ins.web.auth.gr/images/MEG_PLIRI/MEG_31_554_564.pdf
6. Fyndanis, V. (2009). Tense, agreement and aspect in Greek agrammatism. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 29, 566–577. (in Greek)
7. Manouilidou, C., Fyndanis, V., Kehayia, E., & Ralli, A. (2009). Processing thematic features: From Derivation to Compounding. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, pp. 291–306. University of Ioannina.
8. Nikolaidis, Y., Fyndanis, V., & Kostikas-Tselepis, P. (2005). Lingubot technology: Development of virtual agents. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 25, 404–414. (in Greek)
9. Fyndanis, V. (2004). A psycholinguistic approach to the suffix –ón(as). Studies in Greek Linguistics, 24, 775–785. (in Greek)
10. Fyndanis, V. & Trachanopoulou, T. (2004). Statistics and Sociolinguistics: A study on the feminine occupational terms. 16th Panhellenic Conference of Statistics-Proceedings, Ε.S.Ι. (pp. 503–510), 30 April–3 May 2003, Kavala. (in Greek)
11. Fyndanis, V. (2003). The suffix –ón(as) in Modern Greek. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 23, 519–540. (in Greek)

EXTERNAL FUNDING

• Principal Investigator, Morphosyntactic Production in Stroke-induced Agrammatic Aphasia: A Cross-linguistic Machine Learning Approach, 48-month Project#287745 – FRIPRO (FRIHUMSAM) grant awarded by the Research Council of Norway – total budget: NOK 9,993,000 (2019 – 2023)
• Co-proposer and member of the psycholinguistic group, MultiLing Dementia: Language and Communication in Multilingual Speakers with Dementia in Norway. 36-month Project #250093 – FRIPRO (FRIHUMSAM) grant awarded by the Research Council of Norway – PI: Jan Svennevig – total budget: NOK 8,994,000 (2016 – 2020)
• Principal Investigator on the EU-funded Marie Curie project Grammar and Memory: Evidence from Agrammatic Aphasia and Probable Alzheimer’s Disease in German, Italian and Greek. 24-month Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development – Award from the European Commission: € 216,953 (2013 – 2015)
• Co-proposer and member of the “Neurolinguistics” group, Levels of Impairment in Greek Aphasia: Relationship with Processing Deficits, Brain Region, and Therapeutic Implications. 36-month Project #977 under “Thales”/National Strategic Reference Framework – PI: Spyridoula Varlokosta – total budget:  € 600,000 – (Greek) Ministry of Education (2012 – 2015)
• Co-proposer and member of the “Broca’s aphasia” group, The structure of (a)typical language: Linguistic theory and intervention. 36-month Project #MIS 383592 under “Archimides”/National Strategic Reference Framework – PI: Arhonto Terzi – total budget: € 100,000 – (Greek) Ministry of Education (2012 – 2015)

INTERNAL FUNDING

• Principal Investigator, Grammatical Aspect and Time Reference in L1 Cypriot Greek and L1 Standard Greek Neurotypical Speakers and Speakers with Acquired Neurogenic Disorders, 24-month Project – grant awarded by the Cyprus University of Technology – total budget: € 40,000 (2022 – 2024)

Cyprus University of Technology – Department of Rehabilitation Sciences (Limassol, Cyprus) (since academic year 2020–Current)

• Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics for Speech-Language Therapists (undergraduate)

• Aphasia and Related Disorders (undergraduate)

• Neurogenic Cognitive Disorders: Assessment and Rehabilitation (undergraduate)

• Neuroanatomy / Neurophysiology (undergraduate)

• Introduction to Linguistics (undergraduate)

Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus – Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (Brooklyn, NY, USA) (academic year 2018–2019)

• Aphasia and Adult Neurogenic Disorders (postgraduate)

• Advanced Neuroanatomy (postgraduate)

University of Oslo – Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (Oslo, Norway) (spring semester 2016–2017)

• The Impact of Bilingualism/Multilingualism on Cognitive and Language Abilities (postgraduate)

Technological Educational Institute of Epirus (currently University of Ioannina) – Department of Speech and Language Therapy (Ioannina, Greece) (academic year 2010–2011)

• Psycholinguistics (undergraduate)

• Neurolinguistics (undergraduate)

• Linguistics (undergraduate)

• Phonological Development and Disorders (undergraduate)