Writings

In progress (manuscripts, handouts of recent talks)
  1. Modality, evidentiality, and the future of Greek: revisiting the subjunctive na and 'future' tha. Presentation at the 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of Thrace, Greece, Sept. 2011.
  2. Non-emphatic NPIs, EVEN-morphology weakened, and non-exhaustification: the view from Greek and Korean. Presentation at the Linguistics Colloquium, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Oct. 2011
  3. Indeterminate phrases, polarity, and free choice: the view from Greek and Korean. Presentation at the Linguistics Colloquium, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Oct. 2011
  4. (Non)veridicality and existence: a tight relation. Talk presented at the panel on "Nonveridicality, Evaluation, and Coherence Relations", 12th Meeting of the International Pragmatics Association, Manchester, UK. July 2011.
  5. Interference "licensing" of NPIs: Pragmatic reasoning and individual differences (with Ming Xiang, Julian Grove). Poster presentation at CUNY Conference of Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, March 24, 26, 2011
  6. Giannakidou, Anastasia and Josep Quer. 2011. Against universal free choice: free choice and referentially vague indefinites in Greek, Catalan, and Spanish. Ms. under submission.
  7. Definiteness and domain restriction: from Greek and Basque to Salish. (with Urtzi Etxeberria). To appear in Schurcks, Etxeberria, and Giannakidou (eds.), Quantification and noun phrase structure in Slavic and beyond. Series: Studies in Generative Grammar, Mouton de Gruyter.
Books
  1. In preparation. (with Urtzi Etxeberria, Lilia Schurcks, eds). Quantification and noun phrase structure in Slavic and beyond. Series: Studies in Generative Grammar, Mouton de Gruyter.
  2. Giannakidou Anastasia and Monika Rathert, 2009. (eds), Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization. Oxford University Press, Series Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
  3. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 1998. Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)veridical Dependency. John Benjamins, Amsterdam-Philadelphia. 281 pp.
Journal publications
  1. Giannakidou, Anastasia and Suwon Yoon. 2011. The subjective mode of comparison: metalingusitic comparatives in Greek and Korean. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 29:621-655.
  2. Franklin, Amy, Anastasia Giannakidou, and Susan Goldin-Meadow. 2011. Negation, questions, and structure building in a home sign system. Cognition, Volume 118, Issue 3: 398-416
  3. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2010. The dynamics of change in Dutch enig: from nonveridicality to strict negative polarity.Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28: 861-875.
  4. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2009. The dependency of the subjunctive revisited: temporal semantics and polarity. Lingua 120: 1883-1908.
  5. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2007. The landscape of EVEN. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25: 39-81.
  6. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2006. Only, emotive factives, and the dual nature of polarity dependency. Language, 82: 575-603.
  7. Giannakidou, Anastasia. and Lisa. L.-S. Cheng, 2006. (In)Definiteness, polarity, and the role of wh-morphology in free choice. Journal of Semantics 23: 135-183.
  8. Den Dikken, Marcel, and Anastasia Giannakidou, 2002. From Hell to Polarity: 'Aggressively non-D-linked' wh-phrases as polarity items. Linguistic Inquiry 33: 31-61.
  9. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2001. The meaning of free choice. Linguistics and Philosophy 24: 659-735.
  10. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2000. Crosslinguistic semantics and the study of Greek. [Invited contribution]. The Journal of Greek Linguistics 1: 223-262.
  11. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2000. Negative ... concord? Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 18: 457-523.
  12. Giannakidou, Anastasia . 2000. Negative concord and the scope of universals. Transactions of the Philological Society 98.1: 87-120. [Special issue on negation and polarity, edited by Paul Rowlett.]
  13. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 1999. Affective dependencies. Linguistics and Philosophy 22: 367-421.
  14. Giannakidou, Anastasia., and Melita Stavrou. 1999. Nominalization and ellipsis in the Greek DP. The Linguistic Review 16: 295-332.
  15. Giannakidou, A., 1999. Polariteitsverschijnselen en (non)veridicaliteit. [Polarity phenomena and (non) veridicality] Nederlandse Taalkunde, 2: 93-110.
  16. Giannakidou, A. and J. Merchant, 1998. Reverse sluicing in English and Greek. The Linguistic Review 15: 233-256.
  17. Giannakidou, A., 1995. Negative polariteit en kale NPs. [Negative polarity and bare NPs] Bulletin voor Taalwetenschap (TABU) 25.1: 133-137.
Articles in edited volumes
  1. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2011. Bibliography on "Polarity". Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO), Entry: Polarity. On line open access bibliography. Editor-in-Chief Prof. Mark Aronoff (Yale University).
  2. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2011. The Landscape of Greek Quantifiers. In the Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language, edited by E. L. Keenan and D. Paperno, Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. In press.
  3. Giannakidou, Anastasia, and Eleni Staraki, in press. Rethinking ability: ability as modality and ability as action. To appear in Genericity, ed. by Alda Mari, Fabio del Prete, and Claire Beyssade, Oxford University Press.
  4. Giannakidou, Anastasia in press. Nonveridicality and mood choice: subjunctive, polarity, and time.For the volume Tense across Languages, ed. by Renate Musan and Monika Rathert. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  5. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2011. Positive polarity items and negative polarity items: variation, licensing, and compositionality. In Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning (Second edition; ed. by C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger, and P. Portner). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  6. Cheng, Lisa L.S, and Anastasia Giannakidou. In press. The Non-Uniformity of wh-indeterminates with free choice and polarity in Chinese. In The Nature of Quantification and Crosslinguistic variation, ed. by G. Tsoulas and K.-H. Gil. Oxford University Press.
  7. Franklin, Amy, Anastasia Giannakidou, and Susan Goldin Meadow. 2011. Negation in a home sign system. Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock, In: Yuasa, E., Bagsi, T. and K. Beals (eds.), Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock. pp. 261-276.
  8. Etxeberria, Urtzi, and Anastasia Giannakidou, 2010. Contextual domain restriction and the definite determiner. In Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity, ed. by F. Recanati, I. Stojanovic, and N. Villanueva, Mouton de Gruyter, Mouton Series in Pragmatics 6.
  9. Giannakidou, Anastasia and Melita Stavrou. 2009. On metalinguistic comparatives and negation in Greek. Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Greek Syntax and Semantics, ed. by Claire Halpert, Jeremy Hartman, and David Hill, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 57. 57-74.
  10. Giannakidou, Anastasia 2006. Polarity, questions, and the scalar properties of even. In Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn, ed. by Gregory Ward and Maria Birner. John Benjamins. 95-116.
  11. Giannakidou, Anastasia, 2006. N-words and negative concord. In the Blackwell Companion to Syntax, edited by Martin Everaert et al. Volume III: chapter 45: 327-391.
  12. Giannakidou, A. 2003. A puzzle about until and the Present Perfect. In A. Alexiadou, M. Rathert, and A. von Stechow (eds.) Perfect Explorations pp. 101-133. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
  13. Giannakidou, A. 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.
  14. Giannakidou, A. 1999. Weak and strong licensing: evidence from Greek. Studies in Greek Syntax, ed. by Artemis Alexiadou, Geoffrey Horrocks and Melita Stavrou. Kluwer, Dordrecht. 113-133.
  15. Giannakidou, A. and J. Quer. 1997. Long distance licensing of negative indefinites. Negation and Polarity: syntax and semantics ed. by Daniel Forget, Paul Hirschbuehler, France Martineau, and Maria Luisa Rivero. John Benjamins, Amsterdam-Philadelphia. 95-113.
  16. Giannakidou, A. 1994. The Semantic licensing of NPIs and the Modern Greek subjunctive. In Ale de Boer, Helen de Hoop, Henriette de Swart (eds), Language and Cognition 4, Yearbook of the Research Group for Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, University of Groningen: 55-68.
  17. Giannakidou, A. 1993. KANENAS and TIPOTA, talking about nothing or anything in Modern Greek. In Ale de Boer, J. de Jong, and Rita Landeweerd (eds), Language and Cognition 3, Yearbook of the Research Group for Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, University of Groningen. 49-58.
Conference proceedings
  1. Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2011. Indefinites and epistemic judgment: theoretical and experimental approaches. To appear in Studies in Greek Linguistics 38. University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
  2. Chatzopoulou, Katerina, and Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2011. Negation selection in Attic Greek is a polarity phenomenon. Presented at Diachronic Approaches in Generative Syntax (DiGS) 13.
  3. Giannakidou, Anastasia and Suwon Yoon, 2011. Non-exhaustive variation, EVEN-weakening, and negative polarity: evidence from Greek and Korean. To appear in Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 2011.
  4. Giannakidou, Anastasia, Despoina Papadopoulou, and Melita Stavrou. 2011. Epistemic judgement, anti-specificity marking, and scope differentiation: experimental evidence from two Greek indefinites. To appear in the Proceedings of CLS 2011.
  5. Giannakidou, Anastasia and Suwon Yoon. 2010. No NPI-licensing in comparatives. To appear in the Proceedings of CLS 2010.
  6. Giannakidou, A. 2008. A temporal semantics for the Greek subjunctive. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics.
  7. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon, 2008. Metalinguistic comparatives and the expressive dimension: evidence from Greek and Korean. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, ed. by Arndt Riester and Torgrim Solstad. University of Stuttgart, Germany.
  8. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon. 2008. Metalinguistic and negation containing comparatives in Greek and Korean. In the Proceedings of 10th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 10). Seoul, Korea.
  9. Giannakidou, A. and S. Yoon. 2008. Two types of metalinguistic comparatives in Greek and Korean. In the Proceedings of 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS 6). Seoul, Korea.
  10. Giannakidou, A. 2004. Domain restriction and the arguments of quantificational determiners. In Semantics and Linguistic Theory 14. Cornell Linguistics Club: Ithaca, NY. [Available at the Semantics Archive: semanticsarchive.net]
  11. Giannakidou, A. 2004. The three faces of even. In Maria Matheoudhaki and Ageliki Psaltou-Joycey (eds), Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 15 pp.
  12. Giannakidou, A. 2004. Negation, affirmation, and the presuppositions of even. In Maria Karali and Agathoklis Charalambopoulos (eds) Studies in Greek Linguistics 24. 76-88.
  13. Giannakidou, A. 2003. EVEN in questions revisited. In the Proceedings of the 14th Amsterdam Colloquium, ed. by Paul Dekker and Martin Stokhof. Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam. 56-62.
  14. Giannakidou, A. 2002. Until crosslinguistically, 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.
  15. Giannakidou, A. 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.
  16. Giannakidou, A. 2001. Free choice is not universal quantification. In Yoryia Agouraki, Amalia Arvaniti, Dionysis Goutsos, Jim Davey, Marilena Karyolemou, Anna Panayiotou-Triandafillidou, Andreas Papapavlou, Pavlos Pavlou, and Anna Roussou (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Greek Linguistics, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, Greece. 251-258.
  17. Giannakidou, A. 2001. What the hell?. with Marcel den Dikken. In Minjoo Kim and Uri Strauss (eds), Proceedings of the Northeastern Linguistics Society (NELS 31), GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 163-182.
  18. Alexiadou, A. and A. Giannakidou, A. 1999. Specificational pseudoclefts as lists. In Kimary Shahin, Susan Blake, and Eun-Sook Kim (eds), Proceedings of the Seventeenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 17), CSLI, Stanford Publications. 1-16.
  19. Giannakidou, A., and J. Merchant. 1999. Why Giannis can't scrub his plate clean: On the absence of resultative secondary predication in Greek. In A. Mozer (ed.), Greek Linguistics '97: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Ellinika Grammata, Athens. 93-103.
  20. Giannakidou, A. and F. Zwarts. 1999. Aspectual properties of temporal connectives. In A. Mozer (ed), Greek Linguistics '97: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Ellinika Grammata, Athens. 104-113.
  21. Giannakidou, A. and J. Merchant. 1998. An asymmetry in asymmetric donkey anaphora. In Savvas Tsochatzidis, Agathoklis Charalambopoulos, and Maria Karali (eds), Studies in Greek Linguistics 18. Proceedings of the 18th annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics. University of Thessaloniki. Pp. 141-155.
  22. Giannakidou, A. 1997. Linking sensitivity to limited distribution: the case of free choice. In Paul Dekker, Martin Stokhof, and Yde Venema (eds), Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam Colloquium. University of Amsterdam. 139-145.
  23. Giannakidou, A. and J. Merchant, 1997. On the interpretation of null indefinite objects in Greek. With Jason Merchant. In Jannis Veloudis and Maria Karali (eds), Studies in Greek Linguistics 17: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki. 290-303.
  24. Giannakidou, A. and J. Quer, 1997. Disentangling nonlocal licensing of negative indefinites. In Gaberell Drachman, Kiki Malikouti-Drachman, Janis Fykias, and Sila Klidi (eds), Greek linguistics (Proceedings of the 2nd International conference on Greek linguistics), Neugebauer Verlag, Graz. 449-558.
  25. Giannakidou, A. 1996. Habituality and negative polarity. In Jannis Veloudis and Xristos Tzitzilis (eds), Studies in Greek Linguistics 16: Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki. 333-345.
  26. Farkas, D. F. and A. Giannakidou, 1996. How clause-bounded is the scope of universals? With Donka Farkas. In Gallway, T. (ed.) Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 6), CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 35-52. [Also appeared as LRC-Report 96-113, Linguistics Research Center, UCSC].
  27. Anagnostopoulou, E. and A. Giannakidou, 1995.Clitics and prominence, or Why specificity is not enough. With Elena Anagnostopoulou. In Audra Dainora, Rachel Hemphill, Barabara Luka, Barabara Need, and Sheri Pragman (eds), CLS 31: Papers from the 31st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Volume 2: Parasession on Clitics. University of Chicago. 1-15.
  28. Giannakidou, A., 1995. Linking mood to polarity sensitivity: the case of the Modern Greek subjunctive. In Antonietta Bisetti, Joao Costa, Rob Goedemans, Nicola Munaro, and Ruben van de Vijver (eds), Proceedings of CONSOLE 3, University of Venice. 71-83.
  29. Giannakidou, A., 1995. On the semantic licensing of polarity items. In Anastasios-Phoevos Christidis, Maria Margariti-Roga, and Argyris Arhakis (eds), Studies in Greek Linguistics 15: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki. 406-418.
  30. Giannakidou, A., 1995. Subjunctive, habituality and negative polarity. In Mandy Simons, and Teresa Galloway (eds). Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) V, CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 94-112.
  31. Giannakidou, A. and J. Quer, 1995. Two mechanisms for the licensing of negative indefinites. In Leslie Gabriele, Debra Hardison, and Robert Westmoreland (eds), FLSM VI: Proceedings of the 6th Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Volume II: 103-105.
  32. Giannakidou, A. 1993. KANIS/ kanis: A case of polarity sensitivity in Modern Greek. In Anna Anastasiadi-Simeonidi, Mirto Koutitia-Kaimaki, and Melita Stavrou-Sifaki (eds), Studies in Greek Linguistics 14: Proceedings of the 14th annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki. 130-144.