Anastasia Giannakidou

Anastasia Giannakidou is a professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago.[1] She is co-director of Center for Gesture, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago, along with Diane Brentrani and Susan Goldin-Meadow. Giannakidou received a PhD in linguistics from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1997. She is best known for her work on nonveridicality, a theory of the licensing of polarity items.

Anastasia Giannakidou
EducationUniversity of Groningen, PhD, Linguistics, 1997
OccupationLinguist
Known forsemantics, pragmatics, nonveridicality, polarity items
Websitehttp://home.uchicago.edu/~giannaki/

Career

Giannakidou is currently Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, as well as the co-director of the Center for Gesture, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago. She holds a Research Associate position at Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, and is an associate member of Bilingualism Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Giannakidou received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Groningen in 1997. The title of her thesis is The landscape of polarity items, published with Groningen Dissertations in Linguistics (GRODIL) 18. The dissertation received the Dissertation Award (Dissertatieprijs) of the Linguistics Association of the Netherlands for the best dissertation in Linguistics in 1997.

Before joining the University of Chicago in 2002, Giannakidou was a 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 between the years 1999–2002. Between 1997 and 1999 she was a Grotius Fellow, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. In 1998-1999 she was a visiting assistant professor, Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus.

Giannakidou serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Greek Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics, Edinburgh Advanced Linguistics, Edinburgh University Press; Time in Language and Thought, Oxford University Press; Chicago Studies in Linguistics, University of Chicago Press.

Awards and distinctions

Giannakidou has won several awards from granting agencies, including the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1999-2002 she was a Fellow at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.

Selected publications

Books and edited volumes

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.

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

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

1998. Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)veridical Dependency. John Benjamins, Amsterdam-Philadelphia.

Articles

2018. Giannakidou, A. and A. Mari, The semantic roots of positive polarity: epistemic modal verbs and adverbs in English, Greek and Italian. Linguistics and Philosophy 41(6): 623–664.

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

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

2007. Giannakidou, A. The landscape of EVEN. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25: 39–81. 13.

2006. Giannakidou, A. Only, emotive factives, and the dual nature of polarity dependency. Language, 82: 575–603. 14.

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

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

References
  1. "Faculty Directory". linguistics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
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