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Anastasia Giannakidou Curriculum Vitae, Dec. 2016

Personal Address (work): University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics, 1010 E. 59th St., Chicago,

IL 60637, USA Address (home): 1323 E. 61st Street., Chicago, IL 60637 Telephone (work): (773) 834-9819 Telephone (home): (773) 288-5340 E-mail: [email protected] Webpage : home.uchicago.edu/~giannaki Languages: Greek (native), English, Dutch, German, French, Ancient Greek Broad Research interests

• The formal study of meaning (semantics and pragmatics), and its relation to form (morphology and syntax)

• Philosophy of language, mathematical linguistics • Variation in meaning and variation across languages (crosslinguistic semantics) • Greek formal syntax-semantics • Division of labor between semantics and pragmatics • Processing of polarity items, indefinites • Sign languages, home sign • Bilingualism

Languages I have worked on: Greek, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Mandarin, Korean, Basque. I have published in English, Greek, French, and Dutch. Main research topics: negation, negative polarity; free choice; modality, temporality, and the future past distinction; propositional attitudes and mood choice (subjunctive, indicative); temporal particles (until, before); focus particles (even, only), reasoning with alternatives; scalar inference; quantifier structure, definiteness and indefiniteness; ellipsis

Current positions

• Professor of Linguistics. Dept. of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago. • Co-Director of Center for Gesture, Sign and Language, University of Chicago. (with

Diane Brentari, Susan Goldin-Meadow) • Research Associate, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. • Associate member of Bilingualism Research Lab. University of Illinois at Chicago.

A. Giannakidou, curriculum vitae 2

Previous/visiting academic positions

Visiting professor, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France. April-May 2013.

July 2004-June 2007 Associate professor with tenure. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago.

September 2002- June 2004 Assistant professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago.

September 2001- September 2002 Visiting assistant professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago. July 1999-July 2002 Senior Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), Center for Language and Cognition, Department of Dutch, Frisian and Low Saxon, University of Groningen. (Tenure granted 2002). July 1998-Deccember 1998 Visiting assistant professor, Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus. September 1997- June 1999 Grotius Fellow, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. 1993-1997 Research Assistant (assistent in opleiding, PhD fellowship), Department of Dutch, University of Groningen. Fellowship funded by the Dutch Graduate School of Logic (Ondezoeksschool Logica), CLCG (Center for Language and Cognition Groningen), and BCN (Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences).

Education 1997 PhD in Linguistics. University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Thesis: The landscape of polarity items. Groningen Dissertations in Linguistics (GRODIL) 18. 238 pp.

The dissertation received the Dissertation Award (Dissertatieprijs) of the Linguistics Association of the Netherlands for the best dissertation in Linguistics in 1997.


1992 MA (summa cum laude) in Linguistics and Philosophy of Language. Dept. of Greek, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Supervisor: S. Tsochatzidis.

Thesis title: Kyria onomata: I dhiamaxi anamesa stin philosophia tis glossas tou Kripke kai tou Searle [Proper Names: the debate between Kripke's and Searle's Philosophy of Language]. (in Greek)

1989 BA (summa cum laude) in Greek Philology. Specialization: Linguistics. Department of

Greek, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Publications BOOKS In preparation:

Veridicality in Grammar: Modality, Attitudes, and Negation. With Alda Mari. In preparation with University of Chicago Press.

Published 1. 2016. Revisiting Mood, Aspect and Modality: What is a linguistic category? Blaszczak,

J., Anastasia Giannakidou, D. Klimek-Jankowska, Kryzstof Mygdalski (eds). University of Chicago Press.

2. 2013. (with Urtzi Etxeberria, Lilia Schurcks, eds). The Nominal Structure in Slavic and beyond. Series: Studies in Generative Grammar 116, Mouton de Gruyter. Publication Date: December 2013 ISBN: 978-1-61451-279-0

3. Giannakidou Anastasia and Monika Rathert, 2009. (eds), Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization. Oxford University Press, Series Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics.

4. Giannakidou, A. 1998. Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)veridical Dependency. John Benjamins, Amsterdam-Philadelphia. 281 pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLES (REVIEWS not included; see also REVIEWS) Manuscripts under submission/revision:

1. Giannakidou, A. and J. Lin. 2016. No exhaustivity for Mandarin shenme. Submitted. 2. Giannakidou, A. and Alda Mari. 2016. The semantic roots of positive polarity with

epistemic modal adverbs. Undergoing revisions. Linguistics and Philosophy. 3. Giannakidou, A. Chatzikonstantinou, A. and C. Manouilidou. 2016. Three types of NPI-

licensers in Greek: an experimental approach. In preparation, Journal of Greek Linguistics.

4. Etxeberria, Urtzi and Anastasia Giannakidou. 2016. A unified analysis of algun(os): referential vagueness and NP ellipsis. In preparation.


Accepted, published:

1. Giannakidou, A. and A. Mari, 2016. An epistemic analysis of the future: the view from Greek and Italian. To appear in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

2. Chatzikonstantinou, A. and A. Giannakidou. Intonation and scope with Greek universal quantifiers and NPIs: an experimental study. To appear in Glossa.

3. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon. 2016. Scalar marking without scalar meaning: non-scalar, non-exhaustive NPIs in Greek and Korean. Language 92: 522-556.

4. Xiang, Ming, Julian Grove, and Anastasia Giannakidou. 2016. Semantic and pragmatic processes in the comprehension of negation: an event related potential study of negative polarity items. Journal of Neurolinguistics 38: 71-88.

5. Giannakidou, A. 2014. The modality of the present and the future. In Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Springer online. (DOI) 10.1007/s11049-014-9234-z

6. Xiang, Ming, Julian Grove, and Anastasia Giannakidou. 2013. Dependency-dependent interference: NPI interference, agreement attraction, and global pragmatic inferences. In Frontiers in Psychology. Published: 07 October 2013 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00708.

7. Giannakidou, A. and J. Quer. Exhaustive and non-exhaustive variation with anti-specific indefinites: free choice and referential vagueness in Greek, Catalan, and Spanish. (2013), Lingua 26:120–149.

8. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon. 2011. The subjective mode of comparison: metalinguistic comparatives in Greek and Korean. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 29:621-655.

9. Franklin, Giannakidou, and Goldin-Meadow. 2011. Negation, questions, and structure building in a home sign system. Cognition 118, Issue 3: 398-416.

10. Giannakidou, A. 2010. The dynamics of change in Dutch enig: from nonveridicality to strict negative polarity. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28: 861-875.

11. Giannakidou, A. 2009. The dependency of the subjunctive revisited: temporal semantics and polarity. Lingua 120: 1883-1908.

12. Giannakidou, A. 2007. The landscape of EVEN. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25: 39-81.

13. Giannakidou, A. 2006. Only, emotive factives, and the dual nature of polarity dependency. Language, 82: 575-603.

14. Giannakidou, A. and L. L.-S. Cheng, 2006. (In)Definiteness, polarity, and the role of wh-morphology in free choice. Journal of Semantics 23: 135-183.

15. Den Dikken, M. and A. Giannakidou, 2002. From Hell to Polarity: ‘Aggressively non-D-linked’ wh-phrases as polarity items. Linguistic Inquiry 33: 31-61.

16. Giannakidou, A. 2001. The meaning of free choice. Linguistics and Philosophy 24: 659-735.

17. Giannakidou, A. 2000. Crosslinguistic semantics and the study of Greek. [Invited contribution]. The Journal of Greek Linguistics 1: 223-262.

18. Giannakidou, A. 2000. Negative ... concord? Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 18: 457-523.

19. Giannakidou, A . 2000. Negative concord and the scope of universals. Transactions of the Philological Society 98.1: 87-120. [Special issue on negation and polarity, edited by Paul Rowlett.]

20. Giannakidou, A. 1999. Affective dependencies. Linguistics and Philosophy 22: 367-421.


21. Giannakidou, A., and M. Stavrou. 1999. Nominalization and ellipsis in the Greek DP. The Linguistic Review 16: 295-332.

22. Giannakidou, A., 1999. Polariteitsverschijnselen en (non)veridicaliteit. [Polarity phenomena and (non) veridicality] Nederlandse Taalkunde, 2: 93-110.

23. Giannakidou, A. and J. Mercahnt, 1998. Reverse sluicing in English and Greek. The Linguistic Review 15: 233-256.

24. Giannakidou, A., 1995. Negative polariteit en kale NPs. [Negative polarity and bare NPs] Bulletin voor Taalwetenschap (TABU) 25.1: 133-137.

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Giannakidou, A. in press. Polarity. Oxford Encyclopedia in Linguistics. Oxford University Press.

2. Giannakidou, A. and H. Zeijlstra. 2016. The landscape of negative dependencies: n-words and negative concord. The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 2nd edition (eds. Martin Evaerert and Henk van Riemsdijk). In press.

3. Blaszczak, J., Anastasia Giannakidou, D. Klimek-Jankowska, Kryzstof. In press. Aspect, Mood, Modality: an Introduction. In Blaszczak et. al (eds). Revisiting Mood, Aspect and Modality: What is a linguistic category. University of Chicago Press.

4. Giannakidou, A. and A. Mari. In press. Epistemic future and MUST: reasoning with nonveridicality and partial knowledge. In Blaszczak et. al (eds). Revisiting Mood, Aspect and Modality: What is a linguistic category. University of Chicago Press.

5. Giannakidou, A. in press. The subjunctive as evaluation and nonveridicality. In Blaszczak et. al (eds). Revisiting Mood, Aspect and Modality: What is a linguistic category. University of Chicago Press.

6. Giannakidou, A. 2014. The prospective as nonveridical: polarity items, speaker commitment, and projected truth. In The Black Book, Feestschrift for Frans Zwarts, ed. By D. Gilberts and Jack Hoeksema. 101-124.

7. Giannakidou, A. 2013. Inquisitive assertions and nonveridicality. In The dynamic, inquisitive, and visionary life of φ, ?φ and ◊φ-- A festschrift for Jeroen Groenendijk, Martin Stokhof and Frank Veltman, ed. by Maria Aloni, Michael Franke, F. Roelofsen: 115-126.

8. Etxeberria, U. and A. Giannakidou, 2014. Definiteness and domain restriction: from Greek and Basque to Salish. In Schurcks, Etxeberria, and Giannakidou (eds.), The Nominal Structure in Slavic and beyond.

9. Giannakidou, A. 2013. Evaluative subjunctive and nonveridicality. In Nonveridicality, Perspective, and Discourse Coherence, ed. by Taboada and Tvranc, Brill, Studies in Pragmatics.

10. Giannakidou, A., and E. Staraki, 2013. Rethinking ability: ability as modality and ability as action. In Genericity, ed. Alda Mari et al., Oxford University Press. 250-275.

11. Cheng, L.L.S, and A. Giannakidou. 2013. The Non-Uniformity of wh-indeterminates with free choice and polarity in Chinese. In Strategies of Quantification ed. by K.-H. Gil, S. Harlow, and G. Tsoulas. Oxford University Press. 123-154.


12. Giannakidou, A. 2012. The landscape of Greek Quantifiers. In the Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language, edited by E. L. Keenan and D. Paperno, Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy.

13. Giannakidou, A. 2011. Bibliography on “Polarity”. Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO), Entry: Polarity. On line open access bibliography. Launched Dec. 2011.

14. Giannakidou, A. 2011. Positive polarity items and negative polarity items: variation, licensing, and compositionality. In Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning (Second edition; ed. by C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger, and P. Portner). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 1660-1712.

15. Giannakidou, A. 2011. Nonveridicality and mood choice: subjunctive, polarity, and time. For the volume Tense across Languages, ed. by R. Musan and M. Rathert. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 59-90.

16. Franklin, A., A. Giannakidou, and S. Goldin Meadow. 2011. Negation in a home sign system. Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock, In: Yuasa, E., Bagsi, T. and K. Beals (eds.), Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock. pp. 261–276.

17. Etxeberria, U. and A. Giannakidou, 2010. Contextual domain restriction and the definite determiner. In Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity, ed. by F. Recanati, I. Stojanovic, and N. Villanueva, Mouton de Gruyter, Mouton Series in Pragmatics 6. 93-‐126.

18. Giannakidou, A. and M. Stavrou. 2009. On metalinguistic comparatives and negation in Greek. Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Greek Syntax and Semantics, ed. by Claire Halpert, Jeremy Hartman, and David Hill, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 57. 57-74.

19. Giannakidou, A. 2006. Polarity, questions, and the scalar properties of even. In Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn, ed. by Gregory Ward and Maria Birner. John Benjamins. 95-116.

20. Giannakidou, A., 2006. N-words and negative concord. In the Blackwell Companion to Syntax, edited by Martin Everaert et al. Volume III: chapter 45. 327-‐391.

21. Giannakidou, A. 2003. A puzzle about until and the Present Perfect. In A. Alexiadou, M. Rathert, and A. von Stechow (eds.) Perfect Explorations pp. 101-133. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.

22. Giannakidou, A. 2001. Varieties of polarity items and the (Non)veridicality Hypothesis. In Jack Hoeksema, Hotze Rullmann, Victor Sanchez-Valencia, and Ton van der Wouden (eds), Perspectives on Negation and Polarity, John Benjamins, Amsterdam-Philadelphia. 99-129.

23. Giannakidou, A. 1999. Weak and strong licensing: evidence from Greek. Studies in Greek Syntax, ed. by Artemis Alexiadou, Geoffrey Horrocks and Melita Stavrou. Kluwer, Dordrecht. 113-133.

24. Giannakidou, A. and J. Quer. 1997. Long distance licensing of negative indefinites. Negation and Polarity: syntax and semantics ed. by Daniel Forget, Paul Hirschbuehler, France Martineau, and Maria Luisa Rivero. John Benjamins, Amsterdam-Philadelphia. 95-113.

25. Giannakidou, A. 1994. The Semantic licensing of NPIs and the Modern Greek subjunctive. In Ale de Boer, Helen de Hoop, Henriette de Swart (eds), Language and


Cognition 4, Yearbook of the Research Group for Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, University of Groningen: 55-68.

26. Giannakidou, A. 1993. KANENAS and TIPOTA, talking about nothing or anything in Modern Greek. In Ale de Boer, J. de Jong, and Rita Landeweerd (eds), Language and Cognition 3, Yearbook of the Research Group for Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, University of Groningen. 49-58.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1. The myth of exhaustivity for all NPIs. To appear at Chicago Linguistic Society 52. 2. Etxeberria U. and A. Giannakidou, to appear. Anti-specificity and the role of number:

the case of Spanish algún/algunos. Proceedings of Generative Grammar Colloquium, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

3. Giannakidou, A. and Alda Mari. 2016. Emotive verbs and the choice of subjunctive mood. To appear in Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 51.

4. Giannakidou, A. and Alda Mari. 2016. The subjunctive in Greek and Italian: an OT approach. Sinn und Bedeutung 2016.

5. Giannakidou, A. and Alda Mari. 2014. The future of Greek and Italian: an evidential analysis. In Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 48.

6. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon, 2014. Referential vagueness and negative polarity: evidence from Greek and Korean. In Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 2011.

7. Giannakidou, A., D. Papadopoulou, and M. Stavrou. 2014. Scope and epistemic judgment: experimental evidence from Greek indefinites. In the Proceedings of CLS 2011.

8. Gavriilidou, A. and A. Giannakidou. 2013. Degree and manner reading with Greek adverbs ‘poli’ (very/much), ‘kala’ (well). (with Zoe Gavriilidou). In The Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Dept. of English, University of Thessaloniki. Greece.

9. Chatzikonstantinou. A. Giannakidou A, and D. Papadopoulou, 2013. The processing of Greek emphatic NPIs and scope: evidence for 6 year olds. In Studies in Greek Linguistics 39. University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

10. Giannakidou, A. and A. Mari. 2013a: A two dimensional analysis of the future: modal adverbs and speaker bias. In the Proceedings of the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium.

11. Giannakidou, A. and A. Mari. 2013b. An epistemic analysis of the future. In the Proceeding of Sinn und Bedeutung 17.

12. Chatzikonstantinou. A. Giannakidou A, and D. Papadopoulou, 2012. Scope and emphasis in Greek NPIs and universal quantifiers: a pilot study. In the Proceedings of International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL) 10, University of Thrace.

13. Giannakidou, A. 2012. The future of Greek and modal concord. In the Proceedings of International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL) 10, University of Thrace.

14. Chatzopoulou, Katerina, and Giannakidou, A. 2011. Negation selection in Attic Greek is a polarity phenomenon. In the Proceedings of Diachronic Approaches in Generative Syntax (DiGS) 13.

15. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon. 2010. No NPI-licensing in comparatives. To appear in the Proceedings of CLS 2010.


16. Giannakidou, A. 2008. A temporal semantics for the Greek subjunctive. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics.

17. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon, 2008. Metalinguistic comparatives and the expressive dimension: evidence from Greek and Korean. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, ed. by Arndt Riester and Torgrim Solstad. University of Stuttgart, Germany.

18. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon. 2008. Metalinguistic and negation containing comparatives in Greek and Korean. In the Proceedings of 10th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 10). Seoul, Korea.

19. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon. 2008. Two types of metalinguistic comparatives in Greek and Korean. In the Proceedings of 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS 6). Seoul, Korea.

20. Giannakidou, A. 2004. Domain restriction and the arguments of quantificational determiners. In Semantics and Linguistic Theory 14. Cornell Linguistics Club: Ithaca, NY. [Available at the Semantics Archive: semanticsarchive.net]

21. Giannakidou, A. 2004. The three faces of even. In Maria Matheoudhaki and Ageliki Psaltou-Joycey (eds), Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 15 pp.

22. Giannakidou, A. 2004. Negation, affirmation, and the presuppositions of even. In Maria Karali and Agathoklis Charalambopoulos (eds) Studies in Greek Linguistics 24. 76-88.

23. Giannakidou, A. 2003. EVEN in questions revisited. In the Proceedings of the 14th Amsterdam Colloquium, ed. by Paul Dekker and Martin Stokhof. Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam. 56-62.

24. Giannakidou, A. 2002. Until crosslinguistically, aspect and negation: a novel argument for two untils. In Brendan Jackson (ed.), Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 12, CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 84-103.

25. Giannakidou, A. 2002. Licensing and sensitivity in polarity items: from downward entailment to nonveridicality. In Maria Andronis, Anne Pycha and Keiko Yoshimura (eds), CLS 38: Papers from the 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Parasession on Polarity and Negation. 21 pp.

26. Giannakidou, A. 2001. Free choice is not universal quantification. In Yoryia Agouraki, Amalia Arvaniti, Dionysis Goutsos, Jim Davey, Marilena Karyolemou, Anna Panayiotou-Triandafillidou, Andreas Papapavlou, Pavlos Pavlou, and Anna Roussou (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Greek Linguistics, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, Greece. 251-258.

27. Giannakidou, A. 2001. What the hell?. with Marcel den Dikken. In Minjoo Kim and Uri Strauss (eds), Proceedings of the Northeastern Linguistics Society (NELS 31), GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 163-182.

28. Alexiadou, A. and A. Giannakidou, A. 1999. Specificational pseudoclefts as lists. In Kimary Shahin, Susan Blake, and Eun-Sook Kim (eds), Proceedings of the Seventeenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 17), CSLI, Stanford Publications. 1-16.

29. Giannakidou, A., and J. Merchant. 1999. Why Giannis can’t scrub his plate clean: On the absence of resultative secondary predication in Greek. In A. Mozer (ed.), Greek Linguistics ‘97: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Ellinika Grammata, Athens. 93-103.


30. Giannakidou, A. and F. Zwarts. 1999. Aspectual properties of temporal connectives. In A. Mozer (ed), Greek Linguistics ‘97: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Ellinika Grammata, Athens. 104-113.

31. Giannakidou, A. and J. Merchant. 1998. An asymmetry in asymmetric donkey anaphora. In Savvas Tsochatzidis, Agathoklis Charalambopoulos, and Maria Karali (eds), Studies in Greek Linguistics 18. Proceedings of the 18th annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics. University of Thessaloniki. Pp. 141-155.

32. Giannakidou, A. 1997. Linking sensitivity to limited distribution: the case of free choice. In Paul Dekker, Martin Stokhof, and Yde Venema (eds), Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam Colloquium. University of Amsterdam. 139-145.

33. Giannakidou, A. and J. Merchant, 1997. On the interpretation of null indefinite objects in Greek. With Jason Merchant. In Jannis Veloudis and Maria Karali (eds), Studies in Greek Linguistics 17: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki. 290-303.

34. Giannakidou, A. and J. Quer, 1997. Disentangling nonlocal licensing of negative indefinites. In Gaberell Drachman, Kiki Malikouti-Drachman, Janis Fykias, and Sila Klidi (eds), Greek linguistics (Proceedings of the 2nd International conference on Greek linguistics), Neugebauer Verlag, Graz. 449-558.

35. Giannakidou, A. 1996. Habituality and negative polarity. In Jannis Veloudis and Xristos Tzitzilis (eds), Studies in Greek Linguistics 16: Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki. 333-345.

36. Farkas, D. F. and A. Giannakidou, 1996. How clause-bounded is the scope of universals? With Donka Farkas. In Gallway, T. (ed.) Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 6), CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 35-52. [Also appeared as LRC-Report 96-113, Linguistics Research Center, UCSC].

37. Anagnostopoulou, E. and A. Giannakidou, 1995.Clitics and prominence, or Why specificity is not enough. With Elena Anagnostopoulou. In Audra Dainora, Rachel Hemphill, Barabara Luka, Barabara Need, and Sheri Pragman (eds), CLS 31: Papers from the 31st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Volume 2: Parasession on Clitics. University of Chicago. 1-15.

38. Giannakidou, A., 1995. Linking mood to polarity sensitivity: the case of the Modern Greek subjunctive. In Antonietta Bisetti, Joao Costa, Rob Goedemans, Nicola Munaro, and Ruben van de Vijver (eds), Proceedings of CONSOLE 3, University of Venice. 71-83.

39. Giannakidou, A., 1995. On the semantic licensing of polarity items. In Anastasios-Phoevos Christidis, Maria Margariti-Roga, and Argyris Arhakis (eds), Studies in Greek Linguistics 15: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki. 406-418.

40. Giannakidou, A., 1995. Subjunctive, habituality and negative polarity. In Mandy Simons, and Teresa Galloway (eds). Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) V, CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 94-112.

41. Giannakidou, A. and J. Quer, 1995. Two mechanisms for the licensing of negative indefinites. In Leslie Gabriele, Debra Hardison, and Robert Westmoreland (eds), FLSM VI: Proceedings of the 6th Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Volume II: 103-105.


42. Giannakidou, A. 1993. KANIS/ kanis: A case of polarity sensitivity in Modern Greek. In Anna Anastasiadi-Simeonidi, Mirto Koutitia-Kaimaki, and Melita Stavrou-Sifaki (eds), Studies in Greek Linguistics 14: Proceedings of the 14th annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki. 130-144.

REVIEW ARTICLES 1. Review of Israel 2011 The Grammar of Polarity: Pragmatics, Sensitivity, and the Logic

of Scales (Cambridge University Press) for Language. In preparation. 2. Giannakidou, A. 2004. Review of A Natural History of Negation, by Laurence R. Horn,

CSLI Publications. In the Journal of Linguistics 40:426-433. 3. Giannakidou, A. 2003. Review of Covert Modality in Non-finite Contexts, by Rajesh

Bhatt. PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. In GLOT International 7,1-2. pp. 10. Blackwell, Oxford.

WORKING PAPERS 1. Alexiadou, A. and A. Giannakidou, 1998. Specificational pseudoclefts and the semantics

of lists. With Artemis Alexiadou. In Artemis Alexiadou, Nana Fuhrhop, Paul Law, and Ursula Kleinhenz (eds), ZAS Papers on Linguistics, Volume 10: 1-21. Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin.

OLDER MANUSCRIPTS

1. (Non)veridicality constraints on tense/aspect combinations with temporal connectives. 1998. With Frans Zwarts, University of Groningen.

2. Aspect and donkey anaphora. 1998. With Jason Jason Merchant, U. of Chicago.

Invited speaker (colloquia, workshops, conferences)

1. Definiteness and domain restriction: crosslinguistic predictions. New Ideas in Semantics and Modeling. September 2016. Insitut Jean Nicod, Paris.

2. The myth of exhaustivity for all NPIs. Chicago Linguistic Society 52. April 2016. 3. Anti-specificity and the role of number in Spanish algunos. With Urtzi Etxeberria.

Workshop on Indefinites. Deutsche Gesselschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft. February 24, 2016.

4. Veridicality conflict and assertoric inertia. Workshop in honor of Larry Horn. Yale University, Nov. 5-6, 2015.

5. Non-exhaustive NPIs. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Amsterdam. Dec. 4 2015.


6. A typology of mood choice based on nonveridicality: Greek and Italian. Workshop on Nonveridicality and Subjectivity in Language. University of Chicago, Dept. of Linguistics. Dec. 2015. (with Alda Mari).

7. NPIs with emotive verbs: a fresh look. Workshop on Negation and Polarity, University of Caen, France. May 19-20, 2015.

8. The weakness of modals and nonveridicality. Philosophy colloquium, Northwestern University. Feb. 13, 2015.

9. Not all NPIs are scalar: the role of prosody. Linguistics colloquium, UIUC. March 2, 2015.

10. Scalar and non-scalar NPIs: syntax, semantics, and prosody. Invited speaker at the 10th Annual Conference of Purdue Linguistics Association. April 11, 2015.

11. The future in Greek and Italian: metaphysical and epistemic dimensions. CAS Workshop in Linguistics and Philosophy. January 2015. (with Alda Mari).

12. Scalar and non-scalar negative polarity items. Invited speaker, Workshop on Negation and Polarity. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Dec. 2014.

13. What do bilinguals know? Presentation at Humanities Open House, with Na’ama Rokem and Sayed Kashua. University of Chicago. October 2014.

14. Unifying at least, at least in Greek. Invited speaker, Workshop Two days at least, University of Utrecht. September 2014.

15. Focus, (non)scalarity and scope of NPIs with negation. Workshop on Quantifier Scope. CNRS, France. June 2014.

16. Future dimensions. Workshop on Future and Temporality. CHRONOS conference. University of Pisa, Italy, June 2014.

17. Anti-specificity. Workshop on Indefinites, University of Cologne. 18. From gesture to sign: the ingredients of language. The Center for Gesture, Sign, and

Language Spring 2014 Workshop, University of Chicago. 19. Scalar marking without scalar meaning. Linguistics colloquium, University of Texas,

Arlington, Feb. 2014. 20. Nonveridicality in language. Linguistics colloquium, Princeton University, Feb. 2014. 21. The landscape of subjunctive. Workshop on Variation in Meaning, University of

Chicago. Fall 2013. 22. Objective and subjective future. Workshop on: How do we know what happens? ENS,

Paris, April 2013. 23. Nonveridical particles in Greek: epistemic weakening and optative force. Colloquium

talk. Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, NL. April 2013. 24. Evaluative subjunctive in Greek and Romance. Invited talk, Leiden-Utrecht Semantics

Circle. Leiden, NL, April 2013. 25. Nonveridical particles and Greek sentence structure. Colloquium talk, University of

Brussels. April 2013. 26. Polarity and modality in Greek: a diachronic perspective. Invited speaker, Workshop on

Interaction of Modality and Negation in Greek and beyond. University of Cambridge, UK.

27. Evaluative subjunctive, weakening, and non-veridicality. Workshop on Categories: Time, Modality, and Aspect. University of Wroclaw, Poland. Jan. 2013.

28. The future: metaphysical or epistemic?. Workshop on Categories: Time, Modality, and Aspect. University of Wroclaw, Poland. Jan. 2013.


29. Domain restriction and the definite article. The Syntax-Semantics Research Group, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. May 2012. (with Urtzi Etxeberria).

30. Ingredients of definiteness: reference and domain restriction. NIAS workshop on Referentiality, April 2012.

31. Linguistics and Literary Criticism. Presentation at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. University of Chicago, Jan 2012.

32. Bilingualism: language and cognition. University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Guest lecture on Panel on Bilingualism. Feb, 2012.

33. Free choice items: the view from Greek and Korean. Linguistics Colloquium I, Seoul National University. Seoul Korea, Oct. 17 2011.

34. Negative polarity and EVEN bleaching: evidence from Greek and Korean. Linguistics Colloquium II, Seoul National University. Seoul Korea, Oct. 18 2011.

35. Negative polarity item licensing: a more refined understanding. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Stony Brook. Dec. 2, 2011.

36. Nonveridicality and existence. International Pragmatics Association. Panel: Nonveridicality, evaluation and coherence relations. July 2011.

37. Polarity indefinites in modal contexts. In: Chronos 10: 10th international conference on tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality. Aston University, UK. April 2011.

38. Greek indefinites: theory and processing. The 42 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Dept, University of Thessaloniki, Greece. May 2011.

39. Modality, evidentiality and time: the future of Greek. The 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of Thrace, Greece. September 2011.

40. Scope and epistemic judgment: experimental evidence from Greek indefinites. In Midwest Greek Linguistics Consortium, University of Chicago, March 4, 2011.

41. Ability, causality, and action: going beyond aspect in Greek sentences with ability modals. In Paris Working Sessions on Modality, Goals, and Events, organized by he program "Causality in Language and Cognition" (sfl-cause) of the Fédération "Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques" of the CNRS, and the ANR project "Genericity: Interpretation and Uses" (GENIUS). Paris. Nov. 23, 2011.

42. Domain restriction via the definite article in Greek, Basque and Bulgarian. Invited speaker at the Workshop on NP/DP, Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages, University of Potsdam, Dec. 5, 2009.

43. Domain restriction, determiners, and specificity: evidence form Greek and Basque. Talk at the Syntax-Semantics Circle, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. June 18, 2009.

44. Dimensions of quantification. 3 lectures. Undergraduate Seminar. Dept. of Linguistics. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. June 2009.

45. Mood choice and nonveridicality. Invited speaker at Syntax under Lexical Rule. Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. December 12-13, 2008.

46. Contextual domain restriction and specificity across languages: the definite determiner in Greek and Basque. 1st Workshop on Basque Linguistics. University of Chicago. Oct. 2008.

47. Metalinguistic comparatives in Korean and Greek: ellipsis, attitude semantics, and NPI licensing. Workshop on Elliptical Structures, University of Paris-7 (Jussieu). June 20, 2008. (with Suwon Yoon).


48. Sentence building in a home sign system. Invited presentation for a conference in honor of Jerry Sadock. May 2-3, 2008, University of Chicago. (with Amy Franklin and Susan Goldin Meadow).

49. Tense, mood and polarity: the subjunctive revisited. Annual Meeting of the Deutche Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft (DGS, the German equivalent to the LSA), Workshop on Tense across Languages. February 2008.

50. Compositionality and variation in polarity: why scalarity is not enough. Invited talk at the Semantics Research Group, National Institute for Informatics and Keio Universitty, Tokyo, Japan. November 2007.

51. Polarity phenomena in natural language: licensing, variation, and compositionality. Colloquium talk. Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September 2007.

52. On the semantics of the subjunctive. Semantics Reading Group, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September 2007.

53. On free choice definites and indefinites again. Invited speaker at the Workshop on Funny Indefinites. Zentrum fur Algemeine Spachwissenschaft, Berlin, July 2007.

54. Varieties of comparatives in Greek. (with Jason Merchant). Linguistics Colloquium talk. University of Potsdam, July 2007.

55. Metalinguistic contrast in Greek: para-comparative and metalinguistic negation. Invited speaker at the Workshop on Greek Syntax-semantics. MIT, May 2007. (with Melita Stavrou).

56. A temporal semantics for the subjunctive. Invited speaker at the Workshop on Greek Syntax-semantics. MIT, May 2007.

57. Mood, veridicality and propositional attitudes. Linguistics Colloquium talk, UIUC, March 2007.

58. Sanctioning, compositionality and variation in polarity. Presented at the 81th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, January 2007. (Invited commentator)

59. Indefinites and polarity in wh-phrases: evidence from Greek and Mandarin. Colloquium at Harvard University, Dept. of Linguistics. March 17, 2006.

60. Free choice, (in)definiteness, and the role of wh-morphology. Invited speaker at the Workshop on Polarity Items, Swarthmore College. April 14-16, 2006.

61. Quantification, definiteness, and cross-linguistic variation: setting the stage. (with Monika Rathert). Workshop on Quantification, Nominalization and the role of DP. University of Saarbrucken, Germany, Dec. 2005.

62. Even and polarity. Invited speaker at the Workshop on Polarity from Various Perspectives. New York University, March 11-13, 2005.

63. EVEN crosslinguistically. Chicago Syntax-Semantics Circle. Northwestern University. May 2005.

64. Meaning and Grammar. Humanities Open House, University of Chicago. October 2005.

65. Definiteness, indefiniteness, and (more on) the semantics of free choice. Workshop on Strategies of Quantification, University of York, UK. July 2004.

66. The aspectual properties of until. University of Tubingen, Linguistics Colloquium, Dept. of Linguistics. July 2, 2003.


67. Semantics and grammar: the significance of polarity phenomena. Franke Institute, The University of Chicago. New Faculty series. January 22, 2003.

68. Polarity, intensionality, episodicity and free choice. Workshop on Quantification and Polarity, University of York, UK. November 2002.

69. Sensitivity and limited distribution in polarity items: the case of free choice . Linguistics Colloquium, Dept. of Linguistics, City University of New York. The Graduate Center. November 7, 2002.

70. Varieties of polarity. Workshop on Polarity and Compositionality. University of Utrecht. June 18, 2002.

71. Eliminating modules in Minimalism. With Jason Merchant. Workshop organized by the European Science Foundation (ESF) on Theoretical and Experimental approaches to normal and impaired language. Corinth, Greece, June 2-6, 2002.

72. Modularity in the Minimalist Program. With Jason Merchant. Mayfest, University of Maryland, College Park. May 2002.

73. Licensing and sensitivity in polarity items: from downward entailment to nonveridicality. Invited speaker at the Parasession on negation and polarity items of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 2002.

74. Modality, genericity and indefiniteness in the semantics of free choice. Invited talk at the Linguistics Colloquium, Dept. of Linguistics, Purdue University. October 2001.

75. Intensional indefinites and the role of aspect. Workshop on Aspect and Participles, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Tubingen, Germany. April 17-19, 2001.

76. The meaning of free choice. Dept. of Linguistics, Northwestern University. March 5, 2001.

77. Puzzles of UNTIL: stativity, negation, and the perfect. Discourse Colloquium, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. July 7, 2000.

78. UNTIL, durativity, and the perfect. Workshop on the Perfect. University of Thessaloniki, Greece. May 13, 2000.

79. Temporal connectives and their arguments in a crosslinguistic perspective. Workshop on Temporal Reasoning in Discourse, sponsored by the European Science Foundation. University of Lyon, France, February 23-25, 2000.

80. Tense, aspect and (non)veridicality. Semantics Club, University of Groningen. February 8, 2000.

81. The meaning of free choice. Colloquium talk, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nijmegen. February 1, 2000.

82. Semantic constraints on well-formedness: the case of polarity. Guest lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Crete. December 14, 1999.

83. Quantifier scope and negative concord. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Leiden. December 8, 1999. Invited talk.

84. Competing polarity constraints and (non)veridicality. Linguistics Colloquium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. November 22, 1999.

85. Polarity phenomena and (non)veridicality: affective, free choice dependencies, and any. Graduierten Colleg, Universität Stuttgart. May 20, 1999.

86. Polarity Dependencies and (Non)Veridicality. Colloquium talk, University of California San Diego. March 16, 1999.

87. Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical dependency. University of California Los Angeles. March 9, 1999.


88. Forays into the landscape of polarity. Semantics Seminar, University of California Santa Cruz. March 3, 1999.

89. Well-formedness conditions and the phenomenon of polarity. Colloquium talk, Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus. December 2, 1998.

90. Lexical meaning and linguistic analysis. Invited talk for general audience. University of Cyprus. November 26, 1998.

91. Polarity sensitivity as (non)veridical dependency. Taalgala 1998, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. October 16, 1998.

92. Nonveridicality in polarity sensitivity. Workshop on acquisition and variation in syntax and semantics. Organized by the University of Milan and University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy. September 5, 1998.

93. Nominalization and ellipsis in the Greek DP. With Melita Stavrou. ZAS Colloquium, Berlin. July 9, 1998.

94. Negative concord and quantifier scope. Stafseminar, Grammaticamodellen. University of Tilburg, Tilburg. April 1, 1998.

95. (Non)veridicality in the semantics of mood and polarity. 3 lectures. Semantics seminar, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam.

96. Aspects of Nonveridicality: mood and negation in Greek. Faculty Colloquim. Department of Modern Greek and Byzantine studies, University of Amsterdam. March 13, 1998.

97. Conflicting constraints on limited distribution: polarity sensitive and free choice items. Discourse Colloquium (DIP), Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. February 11, 1998.

98. Polarity phenomena as nonveridical dependencies. Colloquium talk, University of Tübingen, Department of Linguistics. December 15, 1997.

99. Specificational pseudoclefts and the semantics of lists. With Artemis Alexiadou. Workshop on clefts and pseudoclefts, Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlin. November 27, 1997.

100. Semantic constraints on limited distribution. Semantics Seminar, Rutgers University. April 1997.

101. Affective dependencies. Taalkundig Colloquium, University of Groningen. February 14, 1997.

102. Licensing and anti-licensing constraints on the distribution of polarity items. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. November 18, 1996.

103. Licensing "Negative Polarity Items" in Greek. Syntax seminar, University of California Los Angeles. February 23, 1996.

104. Negative Concord and negative indefinites in Greek. Santa Cruz Linguistics Colloquium, UCSC, Santa Cruz. January 19, 1996.

105. Licensing NPIs in Greek. Stanford Semantics Seminar, Stanford University. November 28, 1995.

106. Why is the distribution of NPIs so diverse? Onderzoekers Colloquium, University of Utrecht. March 9, 1995.

107. On the interpretation of negative (and related) structures. Workshop on Modern Greek Syntax, FAS, Berlin. December 15-17, 1994.

108. Negative polarity and the subjunctive. Tilburg Stafseminar. Department of Linguistics, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands. April 4, 1994


109. KANENAS and TIPOTA, talking about nothing or anything in Modern Greek. Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland at College Park. November 1, 1993

(Peer reviewed) Conference presentations

1. The semantic roots of positive polarity with epistemic modal verbs and adverbs. The

European Summerschool on Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI), University of Bolzano, Italy. Aug. 2016. With Alda Mari.

2. Referential vagueness and ellipsis: the case of Spanish algun/algunos. Workshop on the semantic contribution of Determiner and Number. Autonomous University of Barcelona, May 2016. (with Urtzi Etxeberia).

3. Domain restriction: a business of D. Conference on Definiteness Across Languages, University of Mexico. (with Urtzi Etxeberia).

4. Chatzikonstantinou, A., A. Giannakidou, and C. Manouilidou. Three kinds of NPI licensers in Greek: experimental data. 12th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Humboldt University Berlin, Sept. 2015.

5. Giannakidou, A. and O. Xherija. Before without after. Workshop on Negation, University of Gottingen, Sept. 2015.

6. Giannakidou, A. and Alda Mari. Subjunctive mood in Greek and Italian: an OT approach. Sinn und Bedeutung 20, University of Tubingen. September 2016.

7. Giannakidou, A. and Alda Mari. Emotive verbs and subjunctive mood. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 51.

8. Anti-specificity and the effect of number: the case of algun/algunos. Presentations of RALFe 2014, Universit ́e Paris 8. February 2015.

9. Etxeberria U. and A. Giannakidou, 2015. Anti-specificity and the role of number: the case of Spanish algún/algunos. Generative Grammar Colloquium, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

10. Illusory specificity: The case of Spanish algunos ��. Going Romance, Dec. 2014. (with Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRS-IKER). University of Barcelona.

11. A unified analysis of Spanish algunos. With Urtzi Etxeberria. Workshop on Specificity in Grammar: Form and Interpretation. University of Trento, Italy. February 2014.

12. Illusory specificity with Spanish algunos. With Urtzi Etxeberria. Colloquio de Grammatica Generativa 24. University of Madrid, Spain. May 2014.

13. Positive bias with the future. With Alda Mari, the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium. Dec. 2013.

14. On prediction. International Conference of Linguists, Geneva, July 2013. (with Alda Mari).

15. Degree and manner reading with Greek adverbs ‘poli’ (very/much), ‘kala’ (well). (with Zoe Gavriilidou). In the Annual Meeting of the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Dept. of English, University of Thessaloniki. Greece. April 2013.

16. The future as an epistemic modal. (with Alda Mari). Sinn und Bedeutung 17. École normale supérieure, Paris, September 2012.


17. An evidential mechanism for the future in Greek and Italian. Workshop on Evidentials, University of Leiden, June 2012.

18. Negative polarity items and quantifiers in Greek: evidence from 6 year olds. (with Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Despoina Papadopoulou). The 39th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Dept., University of Thessaloniki, Greece.April 2012.

19. An evidential analysis of Greek and Italian future. (with Alda Mari). Paper presented at CLS 38. April 2012.

20. Processing lexical semantic features on n-words. An ERP Study. Presented at the Neuroscience of Language Conference. University of the Basque Country. October 2012. (with Ming Xiang, Julian Grove).

21. Two stages of NPI licensing: an ERP study (with Ming Xiang, Julian Grove). CUNY Conference of Human Sentence Processing, CUNY, March 14, 2012.

22. Strength of negation and licensing negative polarity items: an ERP study. (with Ming Xiang, Julian Grove). CNS (Cognitive Neuroscience) conference, Chicago, March 30, 2012.

23. D as domain restrictor: a crosslinguistic perspective. (with Urtzi Etxeberria). Workshop on Calcul de la référence nominale langues avec et sans articles of the Fédération Typologie et Universaux du Langage (CNRS FRE 2559). University Paris 8, March 2012.

24. Parasitic licensing of NPI in comparatives: evidence from Dutch, Greek, and Korean. (with Marcel den Dikken, Suwon Yoon). In the 2011 Japanese/Korean Conference, Seoul national University, Seoul, Korea. Oct. 2011.

25. Interference “licensing” of NPIs: Pragmatic reasoning and individual differences. (with Ming Xiang, Julian Grove). Experimental Pragmatics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. June 2-4, 2011.

26. Negator selection in Attic Greek is a polarity phenomenon. (with Katerina Chatzopoulou). In Diachronic Approaches to Generative Syntax (DiGS), UPenn, June 2-5, 2011.

27. Interference “licensing” of NPIs: Pragmatic reasoning and individual differences (with Ming Xiang, Julian Grove). CUNY Conference of Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, March 24, 26, 2011.

28. Referential vagueness in Greek and Korean. In Chicago Linguistic Society 2011. April 2011. (with Suwon Yoon).

29. Scope and epistemic judgment: experimental evidence from Greek indefinites. In CLS 2011 (Giannakidou, Papadopoulou, and Stavrou).

30. What we gain, and what we lose, with a Hamblin semantics for free choice. (with Josep Quer). Workshop on Alternatives. University of Nantes, Oct. 2010.

31. Rethinking ability: ability as modality and ability as action. Workshop on Dispositions, Abilities, and States, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. June 24-25, 2010. (with Eleni Staraki).

32. Definiteness and quantifier structure: from Basque, to Greek, to Slavic. Philosophy and Semantics in Europe 3, ENS, Paris. May 27-29, 2010. (with Urtzi Etxeberria, Lily Schurcks).

33. No NPI licensing in comparatives. Presented in Chicago Linguistic Society 2010. April 2010.(with Suwon Yoon).


34. Intonation on Greek n-words: an experimental approach. 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of Chicago. (with Stela Gryllia).

35. A new mode of composition for the definite article: evidence from Basque and Greek. Colloquio de Grammatica Generativa. University of The Basque Country, Spain. April 2009. (with Urtzi Etxeberria).

36. Metalinguistic comparatives and the expressive dimension. Sinn und Bedeutung 13. University of Stuttgart, Germany. October 2008. (with Suwon Yoon).

37. Contextual restriction, specificity, and Spanish plurals. (with Urtzi Etxeberria). Workshop on Plurality, Unversity of Paris 7, Nov. 2009.

38. Metalinguistic and negation containing comparatives in Greek and Korean. In the 10th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 10). Seoul, Korea. July 2008. (with Suwon Yoon).

39. Two types of metalinguistic comparatives in Greek and Korean. In the 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS 6). Seoul, Korea. July 2008. (with Suwon Yoon).

40. A new function for the definite determiner in Basque and Greek. The 29th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. May 2-3, 2008.

41. Nonveridicality in home sign systems. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Chicago. January 2008. (with Amy Franklin and Susan Goldin-Meadow).

42. Contextual restrictions and the definite determiner: evidence from Greek and Basque. Workshop on Relativism and Contextualism, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris. Paris, Nov. 9-11, 2007. (with Urtzi Etxeberria).

43. Time and mood: more on the Greek subjunctive. 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of Ionanina, Greece, August 2007.

44. Variable island sensitivity in Greek phrasal and clausal comparatives. Presented at the 80th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Albuquerque, January 2006. (with Jason Merchant).

45. How far can we go with Strawson downward entailment? Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Boston, January 2004.

46. Domain restrictions and the arguments of quantificational determiners. Presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory 14. Northwestern University, May 2004.

47. EVEN and negative bias in questions revisited. Presented at the 14th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, December 2003.

48. No escape from polarity EVEN. Workshop on Polarity and Scalar Implicatures. University of Milan, Italy. June 18-20, 2003.

49. Negation, affirmation, and the presuppositions of EVEN. May 7-9, 2003. The 24th Annual Meeting of the Dept. of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

50. The three faces of even. April 10-12, 2003. 16th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Dept. of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

51. Until crosslinguistically, aspect and negation: a novel argument for two untils. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 12. University of California San Diego.


52. Aggressively non-D-linked phrases as polarity items. With Marcel den Dikken. Northeastern Linguistic Society (NELS) 30, Oct. 6-8, 2000. Georgetown University.

53. Quantifier scope and the syntax of negative concord. The 23rd GLOW Colloquium, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain. April 15-19, 2000. (Abstract published in the GLOW Newsletter 40, Spring 2000).

54. Free choice items. Taalkunde in Nederland (TIN)-dag, Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of the Netherlands. Utrecht University. February 5, 2000.

55. Free choice. The 4th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. September 16-20, 1999.

56. Negative concord and the scope of universals. Workshop on Syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Negation, University of Salford, UK. October 30-November 1, 1998.

57. Semantic constraints on tense/aspect combinations with temporal connectives. With Frans Zwarts. Workshop on the Syntax and semantics of tense and mood selection, University of Bergamo, Italy, July 3, 1998.

58. A compositional solution to the problem of negative concord. The 19th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece April 24, 1998.

59. Specificational pseudoclefts as lists. With Artemis Alexiadou. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) XVII, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. February 21, 1998.

60. Linking sensitivity to limited distribution: the case of free-choice. The 11th Amsterdam Colloquium. Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. December 18, 1997.

61. Aspectual effects on donkey anaphora. (with Jason Merchant). Sinn und Bedeutung Conference of the German Semantics Society. Humboldt Universität Berlin. December 5, 1997.

62. Mood choice and polarity items. Sinn und Bedeutung. Humboldt Universität Berlin. December 6, 1997.

63. Free choice indefinites in Greek. Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique de Paris. Université de Paris-7, Paris, France. October 18, 1997.

64. Why Giannis can’t scrub his plate clean: On the absence of resultative secondary predication in Greek. With Jason Merchant. 3rd International Conference of Greek Linguistics. University of Athens, Greece. September 28, 1997.

65. Aspectual properties of temporal connectives. With Frans Zwarts. 3rd International Conference of Greek Linguistics. University of Athens, Greece. September 27, 1997.

66. Nominal subdeletion, substantivization and the syntax-semantics interface. With Melita Stavrou. The Fall 1997 Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. University of Hertfordshire, UK. September 4-5, 1997.

67. An asymmetry in asymmetric donkey-anaphora. With Jason Merchant. The 18th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. May 2-4, 1997.

68. Aspect and E-type anaphora. With Jason Merchant. Tabu-dag, University of Groningen. June 13, 1997.

69. Polarity sensitivity as semantic dependencies. Workshop on Negation and Polarity, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. August 23-25, 1996.


70. How clause-bounded is the scope of universals? With Donka Farkas. SALT VI, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. April 26-28, 1996

71. On the interpretation of null indefinite objects in Greek With Jason Merchant. 16th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department, University of Thessaloniki, Greece. April 22-24, 1996.

72. Reverse sluicing in Greek. With Jason Merchant. The 19th GLOW Colloquium, Workshop on Greek Syntax. University of Athens, Athens, Greece. April 16-20, 1996. (Abstract published in the GLOW Newsletter 36, Spring 1996).

73. NPIs as predicates. LSA Annual Meeting, UC San Diego, San Diego. January 5-8, 1996.

74. Disentangling non-local licensing of negative indefinites. With Josep Quer. 2nd International Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of Salzburg, Austria. September 22, 1995.

75. Negative polarity and bare NPs. TABU dag, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. June 30, 1995.

76. Two licensing mechanisms for negative indefinites. With Josep Quer. Formal Linguistic Society of Mid-America (FLSM) VI, University of Indiana. May 21, 1995.

77. Long distance licensing of negative indefinites With Josep Quer. Workshop on Negation: syntax and semantics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. May 12, 1995.

78. Habituality and negative polarity. 15th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. May 4-6, 1995.

79. Subjunctive, habituality and negative polarity. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) V, University of Texas at Austin. April 1995.

80. Clitics and Prominence, or why specificity is not enough. With Elena Anagnostopoulou). The 31st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago. April 1995.

81. On the interaction between Mood and Polarity. TIN-dag, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. January 21, 1995.

82. The semantic licensing of NPIs and the Modern Greek subjunctive. CONSOLE 3, University of Venice. November 12-13, 1994.

83. Polarity sensitivity and the semantics of the subjunctive. The 15th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department, University of Thessaloniki. May 15-17, 1994.

84. Negative Polarity Items and Negative Quantifiers in Modern Greek. TABU-dag, University of Groningen. May 30, 1993.

85. A Case of Polarity Sensitivity in Modern Greek. The 14th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department, University of Thessaloniki. April 24, 1993.


Invited General Audience talks

1. Dimensions of Greek identity in diaspora: the role of language. Presentation at the National Hellenic Youth Association. Loyola University. Chicago, IL. October 2016.

2. Greek language and bilingualism. Presentation at the Hellenic Students Association, University of Chicago, April 1, 2015.

3. Bilingualism: ideas for education. Presentation at the National Hellenic Museum, Program for Greek Language and Culture. Feb. 21, 2015.

4. Bilingualism and executive functioning. Talk at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, High School Open House. September 2012.

5. Speaker at Bilingualism panel. University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Feb. 2012. 6. Truth and subjectivity in language. Talk at the Hellenic Link Midwest. Chicago, May 6,

2012. 7. Bilingualism, language, and intelligence. Talk at the Hellenic American Academy,

Deerfield, IL. Dec. 13, 2007. Research visits 2013 April-May. Visiting professor, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. 2009 April-August. Visiting professor, Department of Greek, Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki, Greece. 2008 First half of May. Visiting Professor. University of the Basque Country. (Five lectures on

Noun phrase semantics and structure; see also Teaching). 2003 April-June. Visiting professor, Department of English, Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki, Greece. 2000 January-June, 2000. Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago. 1998 October-December, Visiting Scholar. Department of Linguistics, Nortwestern University. 1997 November-December, 1997. Visiting Scholar. Zentrum fur Allgemeine

Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)-Berlin. April-June, 1997. Visiting scholar. Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.


Honors/Fellowships 2013-2016. The Body’s Role in Thinking, Performing, and Referencing. Neubauer Collegium large scale initiative. Princple investigators: Susan Goldin-Meadow, Diane Brentari, Anastasia Giannakidou, Sian Beilock 2012-2015. Collaborator in National Institute of Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders Grant: From Spontaneous Sign Systems to Language. Principal investigator: Susan Goldin-Meadow, Psychology. June 2006-2011. With Susan Goldin-Meadow, and Carolyn Mylander (Principal investigators, Dept. of Psychology, University of Chicago; AG: co-PI). Grant NIH R01 DC00491. Spontaneous Sign Systems in Five Cultures. 2005: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German equivalent to NSF). Project: Quantification, Nominalizations, and the role of the definite determiner. (With Monika Rathert, University of Saarbrücken, Germany). Organized workshop at Saarbrücken, German, Dec. 2005. (see also [Books]). 1999-2002 Fellow, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. 1997. Dissertation Award of the Linguistics Association of the Netherlands for the best

dissertation in Linguistics in 1997. 1993-1997. Dissertation Fellow, Dutch School of Logic, Behavioral and Cognitive

Neurosciences, Univeristy of Groningen. Teaching COURSES University of Chicago

Bilingualism. Spring 2014. Spring 2015 Bilingualism: Language, Culture and Cognition. Center for Disciplinary Innovation, The Franke Institute for the Humanities. Graduate level course. Spring 2012. Language and the Human. Core course. The College. 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. 2016.


Greek syntax-semantics. Graduate class. 2007, 2009. Recent Semantics Seminar: Modality (Spring 2012); Extraordinary definites and indefinites (Spring 2010); Plurality (Spring 2008); Polarity (Fall 2005, 2014); Focus Particles (Fall 2003); Tense and Aspect (Fall 2002). Experimental approaches to semantics and pragmatics. 2010. (with Ming Xiang). Graduate Research Seminar. Professsionalization course. Spring 2005. Winter 2007. Winter 2008, Winter 2011. Semantics and Pragmatics 1 and 2. (Graduate classes). Undergraduate Semantics/Pragmatics. 2010, 2011.

MIND II. Core course. The College. Winter 2006. Language Myths and Realities. Undergraduate elective. Spring 2007.

Past teaching at other Universities University of Cyprus (invited assistant prof. Fall 1998)

Formal semantics and grammar: introduction to semantics. Undergraduate course. Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Fall/Winter semester 1998-1999. The Philosophy of Language. Undergraduate course. Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Fall/Winter semester 1998-1999.

INVITED COURSES/SUMMER SCHOOLS LOT European Summer School, University of Leiden. June 2017. European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. University Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain. Course on Modality and Subjectivity in Language. (with Alda Mari). August 2015. Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. Evaluation, subjectivity, and nonveridicality. Graduate seminar. April 2013. The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. Quantifiers and determiners. Summer School, August 2012.


University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

Polarity Indefinites. LOT (Dutch Graduate School in Linguistics) summer school, June 2009.

Other Summer Schools

Polarity sensitivity and temporal/aspectual structure. Graduate course taught at the LOT summer school 2001, University of Utrecht, July 2001. Polarity phenomena in natural language. The European summer school for Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) 2000, University of Birmingham, UK.

University of the Basque Country, Spain.

Lectures on the syntax and semantics of noun phrases. May 2008. University of Amsterdam

Interface Questions. Readings on the syntax-semantics interface of interrogatives (co-organizer). University of Amsterdam, Dept. of Philosophy. Fall/Winter 1997-1998.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The syntax and semantics of the Greek noun phrase. Spring 2009. (With Melita Stavrou). Graduate seminar. Lectures on Minimalist Syntax. Dept. of English. Spring/summer 2003. Lectures on Formal Semantics. Dept. of English. Spring/summer 2003. Graduate seminar on Formal Semantics. Dept. of Greek. Spring 1997.

Advising PhD theses 2015-2016:

1. Jing Lin, University of Amsterdam. Acquisition of Negative Polarity Items in Mandarin. External member of the dissertation committee. Defended, Dec. 4, 2015.

2. Ifigeneia Dosi, Aristole University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Verbal Aspect in Bilingual Children: linguistic, cognitive, and environmental factors. Member of the dissertation committee. May 2016.

3. Anastasios Chatzikonstantinou. Intonation and Meaning: negative polarity items and quantifiers in Greek. Dept. of Linguistics (chair). Defended June 30, 2016.

Past PhD theses, University of Chicago


1. Arum Kang. June 2104. (In)definiteness, disjunction and anti-specificity in Korean: a study in the semantics-pragmatics interface Dept. of Linguistics. (chair)

2. Pete Klecha. June 2014. Gradable and Non-gradable modality in English. Linguistics.

3. Eleni Staraki. 2013. The landscape of modality in Greek. (chair). 4. Dea Hunsicker. Fall 2012. Nominal Phrases in Home Sign. Dept. of Psychology.

(committee) 5. Katerina Chatzopoulou, June 2012. Negation and (Non)veridicality in Greek: a

diachronic perspective. (chair) 6. Tommy Grano. June 2012. Control and restructuring at the syntax-semantics

interface. (committee). 7. Suwon Yoon. 2010. Expletive negation in Korean. Linguistics. (Chair). 8. Osamu Sawada. 2010. Pragmatic aspects of scalarity in Japanese. Linguistics.

(committee). 9. Kjersti Stensrud. 2009. The syntax and semantics of event composition in

Norwegian. Linguistics. (committee). 10. Eun-Hae Park. 2009. Free choice and wh-indeterminate quantification in Korean.

Linguistics (Chair). 11. Gina Bulatovic. 2008. Dependent tense: a study of Serbian future and Future 2.

(chair). 12. Keiko Yoshimura. 2007. Focus particles and polarity in Japanese. Linguistics.

(Chair). 13. Jung- Hyuck Lee, 2006. Modality and ability in Korean. Department of

Linguistics. Linguistics. (Chair). 14. Dave Kaiser. 2004. Entailment-based theories and polarity phenomena in Polish.

Linguistics and Slavic. (Chair). 15. Yoko Mizuta, 2002. A discourse-semantic analysis of tense and aspect in English

and Japanese. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago. (Chair). 16. Saeko Reynolds. 2005. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago. An

Autolexical Analysis of Quantifiers in Japanese. (member).

External chair/co-chair (Invited) outside Chicago

1. Anna-Mari Margariti. July 2014. Greek universal quantifier kathe: syntactic and semantic properties. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Patras.

2. Lisa Mateijka-Hanser. Spring 2013. Greek American Greek. Major Characteristic Aspects of the Lexicon and Syntax of the Language of Greek Americans, University of Salzburg.

3. Natasa Todorovic. 2012. Mood choice in Serbian. University of Illinois at Chicago.

4. Urtzi Etxeberria. 2005. Quantification and Domain Restriction in Basque. University of the Basque Country.

5. Raffaella Bernardi, 2002. Reasoning with Polarity in Categorial Type Logic. PhD thesis. University of Utrecht.


6. Melody Clarke, 2002. Aspect and Polarity. Dept. of Linguistics, University of York, UK.

MA/MAPH/Honors BA theses:

1. Erin Gough. Negative polarity items and stereotypicality. MAPH. Completed Spring 2016. (chair)

2. Mina Giannoulia. 2016. The Structure of Greek Quantifiers. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece. Completed, June 2016. (co-chair)

3. Ozge Sarigul. 2015. Complement clauses and (Non)veridicality in Turkish. MA thesis, Linguistics. May 2015. (chair)

4. Paula Hagen. 2014. Dimensions of English Imperatives. MAPH thesis. May 2014. (chair).

5. Erin Dahlgren. 2012. The Rank Distributional Space of Negative Polarity Items. Linguistics. (chair).

6. Elliot Goodman. 2007. BA thesis. Veridicality constraints in mood distinctions in Latin. Linguistics and Classics, University of Chicago (Co-chair).

7. Mayu Yoshihara. 2008. Universal quantification and wh-indeterminates: the case of Japanese –mo. Linguistics, University of Chicago. (chair).

8. Hunsicker, Dea. 2005. The structure of Nominals in a Home Sign System. Psychology, Univ. of Chicago.

9. Jesse Harris, 2003. BA thesis with Honors. Specificational Sentences. Dept. of Linguistics University of Chicago. (Co-chair).

10. Jesse Harris, 2003. MA thesis. Semantic and syntactic constraints on adverbial placement. Linguistics, University of Chicago. (Co-chair).

11. Pai-Szu Chan, 2002. Scope ambiguity in English and Chinese. MAPH thesis. University of Chicago. (Chair)

Academic Service Editorial Boards

The Journal of Greek Linguistics; Semantics and Pragmatics. A Linguistic Society of America Journal; Edinburgh Advanced Linguistics, Edinburgh University Press; Time in Language and Thought, Oxford University Press; Chicago Studies in Linguistics, University of Chicago Press.

Reviewer for: Journals

Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Glot International, Journal of Comparative Germanic, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Journal of Greek Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics,


Journal of Semantics, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Language, Language and Speech, Language Learning and Development, Lingua, Linguistics, Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistics and Philosophy, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Mind and Language, Probus, Studies in Language, Syntax, The Linguistic Review, Transactions of the Philological Society, Semantics and Pragmatics.

Publishers

CSLI-Stanford Publications, John Benjamins, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Springer, Mouton de Gruyter, Blackwell

Organizations National Science Foundation (NSF), The Dutch Council for Advanced Scientific

Research (NWO), The Belgian Research Council; The Greek Ministry of Education; The Humboldt Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); The Austrian Science Fund; Riksjubileums Fond (Sweden), Humboldt Stiftung (Germany).

Conferences Conferences on Greek Linguistics; Workshops on negation and polarity; Western Conference in Linguistics (WECOL); Colloque de Syntax et Semantique de Paris (CSSP); West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL); Northeastern Linguistic Society (NELS); Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT); Sinn und Bedeutung; Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW).; Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS); European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLI) conferences Conference organizing at U Chicago

1. Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics 5. May 6, 2016. 2. Workshop on Nonveridicality and Evaluativity in Language. Sponsored by the Chicago

Paris Centre. Dec. 2015. 3. Workshop on Modality and Subjectivity. April 22, 2015. 4. Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics 4. Workshop, April 2014. (chair). 5. Inaugural Conference for the Center of Language, Gesture and Sign. March 2013. 6. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 22. May 2012. 7. Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics 1. Workshop, March 2011. (chair). 8. Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics 2. Workshop, March 2012. (chair). 9. The 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. 2009. (chair). 10. Workshop on Basque syntax-semantics. 2008. (co-organizer with Karlos Arregi). 11. Workshop on Chinese Linguistics. 2006 (co-organizer with Alan Yu). 12. Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) Bi-annual Symposium. (Nov. 2005). 13. Workshop on Quantification, Nominalizations, and the role of the definite determiner.

University of Saarbrücken, Germany. Co-organizer with Monika Rathert, University of Saarbrücken. Dec. 2005.


Service at the University of Chicago Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language, co-director Department of linguistics 1. Humanities Core Co-ordinator, Language and the Human (2013-2016, 2016-2019) 2. Coordinator of the Linguistics Colloquium, Dept. of Linguistics. 2001- 2008. 3. Director of undergraduate studies, Dept. of linguistics, 2009-2010. 4. Director of graduate studies, Dept. of linguistics, 2010-2011. 5. 2007-2012. Semantics and Philosophy Graduate Research Workshop (Faculty sponsor).

Council of Advanced Studies, Univ. of Chicago. Renewed, 2015-2017. Committees

1. Women’s Leadership Council (since 2013) 2. Dean of Students Policy Committee (2011-2013). 3. Franke Review Committee, chair. 2012. 4. Graduate admissions committee, 2012. 5. Search committee for a tenure track faculty position in experimental linguistics, Dept. of

linguistics, 2010. 6. Stuart Tave committee, Winter 2005. 7. Harper-Schmidt committee, Winter 2006. 8. Franke Review Committee, Winter 2006 9. Search committee for syntax-semantics faculty position in experimental linguistics, Dept.

of linguistics, 2004-2005. 10. Search committee for a tenure-track faculty position in phonology, Dept. of linguistics,

2002-2003. 11. Search committee for a visiting lecturership in Accelerated Modern Greek, Dept. of

Linguistics and the College, 2003-2004. Tenure/promotion reviews Ohio State University; University of Potsdam, Germany; University of Thrace, Greece; University of Athens, Greece; Texas Tech University; University of Salzburg, Austria.

Institutional evaluations

1. Evaluation committee of the Greek Philology Dept., University of Patras, Greece. (chair), 2012.

2. Evaluator for Aristeia Fellowships, Greek Ministry of Education.

Academic service in Greek institutions in the Chicago area

1. Board member of the Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center, Chicago, Illinois. (since 2011).

2. Educational advisor, Hellenic Museum Modern Greek Language Program (since 2013).


3. Academic Committee, Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation, Chicago IL. (since 2015)

Documents

Anastasia Giannakidou Personal - University of Chicagohome.uchicago.edu/~giannaki/pubs/Giannakidou.cv.2016.pdf · Anastasia Giannakidou Curriculum Vitae, Dec. 2016 Personal Address