(For a full list, please see my curriculum vitae. Here you will find recent papers, mostly downloadble. If you are looking for a paper that you cannot download from here, just send me an email).
Current projects:
1. Negative and positive polarity items: licensing, compositionality and variation. Prepared for Maienborn, Claudia, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner (eds). Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (January 2008). Currently working on the final version.
2. Metalinguistic comparatives in Greek: With Melita Stavrou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. This is a paper that I presented at the workshop on Greek Syntax and Semantics at MIT (Spring 2007). The paper appeared in MITWPL 57 (2009).
3. Metalinguistic comparatives in Greek and Korean: attitude semantics, expressive meaning, and NPI licensing. (With Suwon Yoon, University of Chicago). This paper refines the earlier analysis of metalinguistic comparatives by claiming that metalinguistic comparative than-words contain expressive meaning in the sense of Potts 2007. We also consider NPI licensing in comparatives, which we found to be overestimated in the previous literature—and often confused with free choice licensing. This paper was presented at Sinn und Bedeutung in Stuttgart in October 2008 (a version appears in the Proceedings). We are currently working on a new version, to be uploaded soon.
4. Contextual domain restriction across languages: definiteness, indefiniteness, and the structure of QP. With Urtzi Etxeberria (IKER/CNRS). This is a paper that Urtzi and I just finished. Parts of this material were presented at the Workshop on Relativism and Contextualism in Paris (Ecole Normale Sup_(c)rieure de Paris). Nov. 9-11, 2007. This paper extends the idea that the definite determiner can function as a domain restrictor (Giannakidou 2004, SALT 14 paper, and Etxeberria 2005), and discusses the relation between specificity and domain restriction. The role of plurality in specificity marking is also explored.
5. Myths and Realities about Bilingualism. Presentation at Humanties Day, October 27, 2007.
6.
Negation,
questions, and structure building in home sign systems. With Amy Franklin,
and Susan Goldin-Meadow. This is new work that Amy, Susan, and I are engaged
in. We provide evidence for structure building in a home sign system,
specifically for negation and question formation. Our findings have direct
bearing on the question of what constitutes the essentials of language.
7.
The dependency of the subjunctive revisited:
temporal semantics and polarity . Just appeared in Lingua, special volume on Mood edited by Josep Quer (2009).
Recent book (January 2009)
1. Quantification,
Definiteness, and Nominalization. Co-edited with Monika Rathert. Includes
selected papers from a workshop on these topics that we organized at
Saarbrucken (Dec. 2005). Appeared with Oxford University Press.
1. 2007.
The
landscape of EVEN Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory 25: 39-81.
2. 2006. Only, emotive factives, and the dual
nature of polarity dependency . Language 82.3: 575-603.
3. 2006 (In)Definiteness, polarity, and the role of wh-morphology in free choice. (with Lisa Cheng). Journal of Semantics 23: 135–183
4. 2002. From Hell to Polarity: “Aggressively non-D-linked”
wh-phrases as polarity items. With Marcel den Dikken. Linguistic Inquiry 33:31-61.
5. 2001. The meaning of free choice. Linguistics and
Philosophy 24: 659-735
6. 2000.
Crosslinguistic semantics and the study of Greek. The Journal of Greek
Linguistics 1: 223-262.
7. 2000. Negative … Concord?. Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory 18:
457-523.
8. 1999.
Affective
dependencies. Linguistics
and Philosophy 22:
367-421.
9. 1999.
Nominalization and ellipsis in the Greek DP. With Melita Stavrou. The
Linguistic Review 16:
295-332.
10.
1998. Reverse sluicing in English and Greek. With Jason Merchant. The
Linguistic Review 15:
233-256.
11. 1995.
Negative polariteit en kale NPs. [Negative polarity and bare NPs] Bulletin
voor Taalwetenschap
(TABU) 25.1: 133-137.
Books
1998. Polarity
Sensitivity as (Non)veridical Dependency. John Benjamins, Amsterdam-Philadelphia. 281 pp.
1. To appear.
(with Lisa Cheng). The Non-Uniformity of
wh-indeterminates with free choice in Chinese. To appear in Strategies of
Quantification, edited by Georges Tsoulas and Kook-hee Gil. Selected papers
from the workshop on Quantification and Crosslinguistic Variation, University
of York. Volume to appear with Oxford University Press.
2. 2006. Polarity, questions, and the scalar properties
of even. Festschrift for Larry Horn, ed. by Gregory Ward and Maria
Birner. John Benjamins.
3. 2003. A
puzzle about until and the Present Perfect. In A. Alexiadou, M. Rathert, and A.
von Stechow (eds.) Perfect Explorations, (Selected papers from the workshop on
the Perfect, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2000), pp. 101-133. Mouton
de Gruyter, Berlin.
4.
2006. N-words and negative concord. In the
Linguistics Companion,
Blackwell, Oxford.
5. 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.
1. 2004. Domain restriction and the arguments of quantificational
determiners. In Semantics and Linguistic Theory 14. Cornell
Linguistics Club: Ithaca, NY. pp. 110-128.
2. 2002. UNTIL, 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.
3. 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.
4. 1999. Why Giannis can_t scrub his plate clean: On the
absence of resultative secondary predication in Greek. With Jason Merchant.
In A. Mozer (ed.), Greek Linguistics _97: Proceedings of the 3rd International
Conference on Greek Linguistics. Ellinika Grammata, Athens. 93-103.