Anastasia Giannakidou is a professor of

linguistics Linguistics is the science, scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure ...

at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

. She is co-director of Center for Gesture, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago, along with Diane Brentari and Susan Goldin-Meadow. She is best known for her work on

nonveridicality In linguistics, veridicality (from Latin "truthfully said") is a semantic or grammatical assertion of the truth of an utterance. Definition Merriam-Webster defines "veridical" as truthful, veracious and non illusory. It stems from the Latin ...

, a theory of the licensing of

polarity item In linguistics, a polarity item is a lexical item that is associated with affirmation or negation. An affirmation is a positive polarity item, abbreviated PPI or AFF. A negation is a negative polarity item, abbreviated NPI or NEG. The linguisti ...

Career

Giannakidou is currently Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the

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 The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois ...

. Giannakidou received a PhD in linguistics from the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...

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 1998. Before joining the University of Chicago in 2002, Giannakidou was a senior Fellow of the

Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

(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 The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is a research institute of the University of Amsterdam, in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate. The ILLC's central research area is the st ...

(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 The University of Cyprus (Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου) is a public research university established in Cyprus in 1989. It admitted its first students in 1992 and has approximately 7000 students. History The University of Cyprus wa ...

. Giannakidou serves on the editorial boards of the ''Journal of Greek Linguistics'', ''

Semantics and Pragmatics The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...

'', ''Edinburgh Advanced Linguistics'', ''Time in Language and Thought'', and ''Chicago Studies in Linguistics''.

Grants and awards

Giannakidou has won several awards from granting agencies, including the

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft The German Research Foundation (german: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germ ...

(DFG) and the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

(NIH). From 1999 to 2002 she was a Fellow at the

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. . * 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

External links

Personal website
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