Anastasia Giannakidou Explained

Anastasia Giannakidou
Occupation:Linguist
Thesis Title:The landscape of polarity items
Thesis Year:1997
Discipline:Linguistics
Workplaces:University of Chicago

Anastasia Giannakidou is the Frank J. McLoraine Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago.[1] She is the founder and inaugural director of the Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of Chicago,[2] and co-director of Center for Gesture, Sign and Language.[3] She is best known for her work on veridicality, polarity phenomena, modal sentences, and the interactions of tense and modality.[4] She holds a Research Associate position at Institut Jean Nicod,[5] Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, is a faculty fellow at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge,[6] and is an associate member of Bilingualism Research Lab[7] at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Education and career

Giannakidou earned her BA in Greek Philology and Linguistics at the University of Thessaloniki in 1989, and her PhD in linguistics at the University of Groningen in 1997.[8] 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.[9]

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.[10] 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.[11] [12]

Giannakidou serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Greek Linguistics,[13] Semantics and Pragmatics,[14] 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 (DFG)[15] and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). From 1999 to 2002 she was a Fellow at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.

Selected publications

Books and edited volumes

Articles

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2019-03-22 . Faculty Directory . en . linguistics.uchicago.edu.
  2. Web site: Center for Hellenic Studies.
  3. Web site: Faculty Directors Center for Gesture, Sign and Language. 2021-03-09. voices.uchicago.edu.
  4. Web site: Anastasia Giannakidou. 2021-03-09. scholar.google.com.
  5. Web site: Anastasia Giannakidou - INSTITUT JEAN NICOD. 2021-03-09. www.institutnicod.org.
  6. Web site: Core Faculty Members, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge.
  7. Web site: Members, Bilingualism Research Lab. 9 March 2021. University of Chicago.
  8. Giannakidou. A.. 1997. The Landscape of Polarity Items. Thesis fully internal (DIV) . English.
  9. Web site: Overzicht winnaars. 2021-03-09. www.universiteitleiden.nl. nl.
  10. Web site: University of Groningen. Faculty of Arts. 2000. Annual Report. Center for Language and Cognition, Groningen.
  11. Web site: Dept of Education. FLAS Grant application. 2018. Application for Grant. 9 March 2021. iris.ed.gov.
  12. Web site: International Greek Language Day Web Presentation Feb. 20. February 11, 2021. 2021-03-09. The National Herald.
  13. Web site: Journal of Greek Linguistics. 2021-03-09. Brill. en.
  14. Web site: Editorial Team. 2021-03-09. semprag.org. en-US.
  15. Web site: DFG - GEPRIS - Professorin Dr. Anastasia Giannakidou. 2021-03-09. gepris.dfg.de.

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