Anastasia Giannakidou Curriculum Vitae, September 2019 Personal Address (work): University of Chicago, Linguistics, 1115 E. 58th 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 • Dimensions of meaning (semantics, pragmatics, affective meaning), and the relation between meaning and form (morphology and syntax) • Philosophy of language • Variation in meaning and variation across languages (crosslinguistic semantics), with emphasis on (Modern and Ancient) Greek • From meaning to messaging: rhetoric, veridicality, and ideology • Super-linguistic meaning: meaning and motion, with emphasis on movement in dance • Processing of negative polarity items and indefinites • Sign languages • Bilingualism • Greek syntax and semantics • Hellenic Studies Languages I have worked on: Greek, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Mandarin, Korean, Basque. I have published in English, Greek, French, and Dutch. Research topics: negation, negative polarity, negative concord; indefinite noun phrases, free choice and referential vagueness; modality, temporality, and the future versus 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 domain restriction; ellipsis A. Giannakidou, curriculum vitae 2 Current academic positions • (Since 2007). Professor of Linguistics. Department of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago. • Humanities Core Coordinator, The College, University of Chicago. Language and the Human (HUMA 1700; 2013-2016, 2016-2019) • Co-Director of Center for Gesture, Sign and Language, University of Chicago (with Diane Brentari, Susan Goldin-Meadow) • Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, University of Chicago • Research Associate, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. (Honorary position) Previous academic positions Associate professor with tenure. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago. (2004-2007), Assistant professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago. (2002- 2004) Visiting assistant professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago. (2001-2002) 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 (1999- July 2002; tenure granted 2002). Grotius postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. (1997-1999) Research Assistant (assistent in opleiding, PhD fellowship), Department of Dutch Linguistics, University of Groningen. Funding by the Dutch Graduate School of Logic (Ondezoeksschool Logica), the CLCG (Center for Language and Cognition Groningen), and BCN (Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences). (1993-1997) 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 won the Dissertation Award (Dissertatieprijs) of the Linguistics Association of the Netherlands for the best dissertation in Linguistics in 1997. A. Giannakidou, curriculum vitae 3 1992 MA (summa cum laude) in Linguistics and Philosophy of Language. Dept. of Greek, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Supervisor: S. Tsohatzidis. 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 and Classics. Specialization: Linguistics. Department of Greek, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Visiting positions 2017 Visiting professor, Leibniz Zentrum, Humboldt University Berlin; Visiting professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Dept. of Linguistics. 2013 Visiting professor. Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. 2009 Visiting professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 2008 Visiting Professor, University of the Basque Country. 2003 Visiting professor, Department of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 1998 Visiting assistant professor, Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus. 1997 Visiting Scholar. Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)-Berlin; Visiting scholar. Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Publications BOOKS 1. In progress. Modality.With Alda Mari, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. 2. To appear: Veridicality in Grammar and Thought: Modality, Propositional Attitudes, and Mood choice. With Alda Mari. Under contract with the University of Chicago Press. Pp. 297. Publication date Fall 2020. 3. 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. 4. 2013. The Nominal Structure in Slavic and beyond. Urtzi Etxeberria, Lilia Schurcks, Anastasia Giannakidou (eds). Series: Studies in Generative Grammar 116, Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN: 978-1-61451-279-0 A. Giannakidou, curriculum vitae 4 5. 2009. Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization. Giannakidou Anastasia and Monika Rathert, (eds). Oxford University Press, Series Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. 6. 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 review/revision: 1. Etxeberria, Urtzi and Anastasia Giannakidou. (2018). A unified analysis of algun(os): referential vagueness and ellipsis. Undergoing revisions. Glossa Manuscripts (unpublished, in preparation) 1. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon. 2017. NPI licensing in comparatives? A crosslinguistic perspective. 2. Three types of NPI-licensers in Greek: an experimental approach. (with A. Chatzikonstantinou and C. Manouilidou). 3. Chatzikonstantinou, Anastasios and Anastasia Giannakidou. (2017). Intonation and scope with Greek universal quantifiers and NPIs: an experimental study. Glossa. Accepted, to appear: 1. Negative Concord. To appear in Oxford Handbook of Negation, V. Deprez and M. Teresa Espinal (eds). Oxford University Press. 2. Giannakidou, Anastasia and Urtzi Etxeberria. The relation between determiners and domain restriction. Oxford Handbook of Determiners. Solveiga Armoskaite and Martina Witschko (eds). Oxford University Press. Published: 1. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2018. A critical assessment of ‘exhaustivity’ for Negative Polarity Items: the view from Greek, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese. Acta Linguistica Academica 65: 503-545. (Published Dec. 2018). 2. Giannakidou, A. and Alda Mari. 2018. The semantic roots of positive polarity with epistemic modal adverbs. Linguistics and Philosophy 41(6), 623-66. (Published Aug. 2018) A. Giannakidou, curriculum vitae 5 3. Diane Brentari, Joshua Falk, Anastasia Giannakidou, Annika Herrmann, Elisabeth Volk, Markus Steinbach, Production and Comprehension of Prosodic Markers in American Sign Language Imperatives". 2018. Published April 18, 2018. Frontiers in Psychology 4. Anastasia Giannakidou and Urtzi Etxeberria. 2018. Assessing the Role of Experimental Evidence for Interface Judgment: Licensing of Negative Polarity Items, Scalar Readings, and Focus. Frontiers in Psychology. Published 21 February 2018. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00059 5. Giannakidou, A. and A. Mari, 2018. An epistemic analysis of the future: the view from Greek and Italian. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 36: 85-129. doi.org/10.1007/s11049-017-9366-z 6. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon. 2016. Scalar marking without scalar meaning: non-scalar, non-exhaustive NPIs in Greek and Korean. Language 92: 522-556. 7. 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. 8. Giannakidou, A. 2014. The modality of the present and the future. In Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 32: 1011-1032. (DOI) 10.1007/s11049-014-9234-z 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. Franklin, Giannakidou, and Goldin-Meadow. 2011. Negation, questions, and structure building in a home sign system. Cognition 118: 398-416. 13. Giannakidou, A. 2010. The dynamics of change in Dutch enig: from nonveridicality to strict negative polarity. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28: 861-875. 14. Giannakidou, A. 2009. The dependency of the subjunctive revisited: temporal semantics