Presentations |
2023. On
degree phrases and multi-headed comparatives. Moscow State University, April
26, 2023.
2023. Natural
language semantics and music. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence (OFAI) -Lecture Series, March 8, 2023.
2022. Multi-headed comparatives and tough-movement.
KU Leuven, May 18, 2022
2021. The
grammar-parser distinction is real: a plea for bridge laws. 41th Annual Meeting of the Department
of Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki, May 15, 2021.
2020. Heim
2009. Forks in the road to Rule I. Athens Semantics Group. April 9, 2020.
2019. Natural language semantics and music. Music &
Language 2019, The Athens Concert
Hall, Music Library
Lilian Voudouri, October 3 - 4, 2019.
2019. Natural
language semantics for musicologists (slides). Lecture series language &
music, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, June 12, 2019.
2019. Deriving de se
from reflexivization. Colloquium
Talk, Language, Logic and Cognition Center, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 21, 2019.
2019. Brass tacks in natural language semantics.
Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
April 12, 2019.
2019. On the semantics of different. 40th
Annual Meeting, Department of Linguistics, University of
Thessaloniki, April 5-6, 2019.
2018. How to differ in German. Invited speaker, Comparative
Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW) 2018. University of Götingen,
September 27-28.
2018. Comparatives and nominal comparatives.
Guest lecture at seminar on adjective semantics, University of Frankfurt, June
28, 2018.
2018. de se and
reflexivization. Colloquium, Department
of Linguistics/German Studies, University Stuttgart, June 26, 2018. (A
current handout can be found here.)
2017. In Defense of Semantically Active Head Movement.
Workshop for Martin Prinzhorn.
Technical University Vienna, November
11, 2017.
2017. Remarks on Bridge Laws. Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Linguistic Theory 1.
University of Crete, October 6-8, 2017.
2017. In Defense of Semantically Active Head
Movement. Workshop:
Phrases, Ts and Nodes: Syntactic Movement in the 21st Century.
Humboldt University, Berlin, June 9, 2017.
2017. Phrasal Comparatives, Reflexivization and Parasitic
Scope. University of Nantes, Nantes. June 2, 2017.
2017. A
Calculus for Reconstruction and Anti-Reconstruction. University of
Göttingen, May 30, 2017.
2017.
Parasitic Scope. University of
Bielefeld. May 3, 2017. (An updated handout can be found here.)
2017. Some notes on pronouns, ECM and control.
FBIV Workshop, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, March 24,
2017.
2016.
Some notes on pronouns, ECM and control.
Control Workshop, Humboldt University, Berlin,
October 14-15, 2016. (An
updated handout can be found here.)
2016.
On the Typology of Phrasal Comparatives. Wiener Sprachgesellschaft, University of
Vienna, June 28, 2016.
2016.
Phrasal Comparatives and Parasitic Scope (v1.5).
LinG Colloquium, University of
Göttingen, June 8, 2016.
2016.
Phrasal Comparatives and Parasitic
Scope. University of Cologne, June 2, 2016.
2016.
On Expressing Non-identity. Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, University of
Cologne, June 1, 2016.
2015. Zwei Bemerkungen zur Verbbewegung. University of Hamburg, August 20, 2015.
2015. Head Movement and Scope. University of
Hamburg, August 20, 2015.
2015.
(with A. Alexiadou, Μ. den Dikken, T. Lohndal, P. Svenonius) Moderator at Generative Syntax in the Twenty-first Century: The
Road Ahead. Athens, Greece, May 28-30, 2015.
2015.
(with G. Spathas, A. Alexiadou and E.
Anagnostopoulou) On
deriving the typology of repetition and restitution. GLOW 2015, Paris, April 15-18, 2015.
2015.
Typological variation in phrasal comparatives.
University of Cambridge, March 3, 2015.
2014.
Phrasal Comparatives and Parasitic
Scope. Athens workshop on semantics and
the syntax-semantics interface, Athens, December 19, 2014. (An updated
version of the handout can be found here.)
2014.
(with A. Alexiadou and E.
Anagnostopoulou) Variation
in repetitive morphemes: Some implications for the clausal architecture. Workshop on the State of the Art in
Comparative Syntax, University of York, September 25, 2014.
2014.
Varieties of phrasal comparatives - functional
isotopes. Workshop What
happened to Principles & Parameters? Villa
Salmi, Arezzo, July 02 – 05, 2014.
2014. Zwei Bemerkungen zur Verbbewegung. University of
Frankfurt, July 03, 2014. (Revised and expanded
versions of part 1 and part 2.)
2014.
Some (non)tendencies in syntax and semantics.
Round table Η Γενετική Θεωρία σήμερα:
τάσεις, παλινδρομήσεις, προοπτικές. 35th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloni,
May 10, 2014
2013.
Notes on the
Duke of York. Interaction of
Syntactic Primitives -
Workshop at the 35th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), May 13-15, 2013.
2012. More
notes on non-identity marking.
Semantisches Kolloquium, University
of Frankfurt, May 24, 2012.
2012. Notes
on non-identity marking. Semantics Workshop at the
Wiener Secession, May 21, 2012.
2012. Zahlen! Über Zahlen, Ordnung,
Variation und Ökonomie im menschlichen Sprachsystem. Kolloquium des Fachbereichs für
deutsche Sprache und Literatur, EKPA, January 01, 2012.
2011. On Indices. Workshop on Pronoun Binding and non-active morphology in Greek. TEI
Patras, November 25, 2011.
2011. Prospects and limits of a hybrid approach to
reconstruction. Workshop
on Reconstruction effects in relative clauses. ZAS, Berlin, July 08-09, 2011.
2011. On the size of roots
and meanings. Approaches to
the lexicon/Roots
III. Israel Science Foundation and the Institute for Advanced
Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 13-16, 2011.
2011. Some formal conditions on logical syntax. GLOW 34, University of Vienna, April
26-30 2011.
2011. Harmonic Derivatioanalism and the Deductive System.
University of Frankfurt, February 2, 2011.
2010. On the orthodoxy of head movement. Verb movement: Its nature, triggers, and effects. University of
Amsterdam/CASTL, December 11-12, 2010.
2010. Harmonic Derivationalism. On Linguistic Interfaces II, University
of Ulster, December 02-04, 2010. (for updated handout see
here)
2010. Different Theories of different in Greek. Mediterranean syntax Meeting 3,
University of Athens, October 08-10, 2010.
2009. Generalized Survive: single output
syntax without attraction. Roots
Workshop, Syntax session, University of Stuttgart, June 10-13, 2009.
2009. Generalized Survive: single output syntax
without attraction. GLOW 32,
University of Nantes, April 16-18, 2009. (for updated handout see here)
2009. Linguistische Theorie im
Unterricht. Schnittstellen von Linguistik und
Sprachdidaktik in der Auslandsgermanistik, University of Athens, April 09-10, 2009.
2009. Criteria
for diagnosing covert movement (and some remarks on the Duke of York).
Diagnosing
Syntax, Utrecht University/Leiden University,
January 29-31, 2009.
2007. The interpretation
of verb movement.
2007. Reconstruction and
variable binding. Thomasburg
Workshop, June 30 - July 2, 2007.
2007. Comments on
‘Metalinguistic contrast in the grammar of Greek’. MIT, Department of Linguistics &
Philosophy, May 20-22, 2007.
2007. Some remarks
on reconstruction. MIT, Department of
Linguistics & Philosophy (Ling-Lunch), May 10, 2007.
2007. Well- and lesser known properties of verb movement. Workshop on
Movement and its relation to the interfaces, Harvard University, May 7,
2007. (for handout see here)
2007. An LF-transparent
theory of movement. GLOW XXX, University of Tromsø, April
12-14, 2007. (updated version of
‘Projecting indices’)
2007. Scope and
reconstruction. Guest lecture Ling 325: Word Order and Scope
(Bobalijk & Wurmbrand),
2006. Ellipsis and linearization. Ellipsis Workshop, University of Stuttgart, July
24, 2006.
2006. Projecting indices. Leiden
2006. Projecting the index.
2006. Struktur in Syntax und Semantik. Department of German Language and
Philology, University of Athens, Januar 10, 2006.
2005. The categorial status of
indices. Université de Genève, December 5, 2005 (for handout see here).
2005. Syntactic and semantic effects
of head movement. GLOW 2005, Université de Genève, Genevea, March 31 - April 1, 2005.
2005. Semantic effects of head
movement. Incontro di Grammatica Generativa XXX1, Rome, February 24-26, 2005.
(for updated version see here)
2004. The structure of arguments for
head movement. GACL 1, Protaras/Cyrpus. November 26-28, 2004. (for updated versions
see here)
2004. On the MLC. Department of
Linguistics, University of Groningen. June 18, 2004.
2003. Two Variations on the MLC. Department of Philology, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, June 2, 2003.
2003. An LCA Reduction of the MLC.
XXIX
Incontro di Grammatica Generative.
Università di Urbino, Urbino, February 13-15, 2003.
2003. Phrase Structure Paradoxes and
Unorthodox Movement. Talk at Sonderforschungsbereich 441: Linguistische
Datenstrukturen (‘Special Research Program: Linguistic Data Structures’),
University of Tübingen,
November 10, 2003.
2003. Three solutions to Pesetsky’s Paradox.
Invitation by Sonderforschungsbereich 441: Linguistische Datenstrukturen
(‘Special Research Program: Linguistic Data Structures’),
University of Tübingen,
November 3, 2003.
2002. On Merge and Move.
Department of Linguistics, McGill University. October 3, 2002.
2002. Interdependencies between
Economy and Merge. MIT, Department of
Linguistics & Philosophy (Ling-Lunch), October 24, 2002.
2002. An LCA account of the MLC:
Prospects and Problems. MLC Workshop,
Department of Linguistics,
2001. The MLC, Binding and Scope.
Department of Linguistics,
2001. Structural and Linear Adjacency.
GLOW 24, University of Porto, Braga, April 8-10, 2001.
2001. Deriving PS-Paradoxes by
Conditions on Merge. NELS 32, CUNY/NYU,
2000. Comparatives and the Status
of the CSC. 7th Central European Summer
School in Generative Grammar (EGG), Blagoevgrad, July 31 - August 11, 2000.
2000. A Derivational Head-Raising
Analysis of Comparatives. GLOW 23,
1999. Scope Rigidity and Scope
Ambiguity.
1999. Phrasal Comparatives are
not Base-Generated.
1999. Conjunction Reduction in
Subordinate Structures. NELS 30,
Rutgers University.
1999. Antecedent Contained
Gapping.
1998. The Representation and
Interpretation of NP-Comparatives. University of Tübingen, July 7, 1988.
1998. On Comparatives. Zentrum für
Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, June 25, 1998.
1998. On Comparative Deletion. NELS 29, University of Delaware.
1998. Ellipsis and Deletion in
Comparatives.
1998. Deep Anaphora or Surface
Anaphora? Workshop on Comparatives, Zentrum für Allgemeine
Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, November 27-29, 1998.
1998. AP-Raising and Conjunction
Reduction in Comparatives.
1997. Some
Remarks on Phrasal Comparatives. International Syntax
Roundtable, Ypps,Danub
Other talks
2017. Sprache und Formale Linguistik. 4. ÖSD Tagung,
Moraitis-Schule, February 5, 2017.
2016. Märchenstunde: Konstruktionsgrammatik,
Funktionalismus und die bösen Worte. Kolloquium des
Fachbereichs für deutsche Sprache und Literatur,
Ethnic and Kapodistrian University of Athens, December 21, 2016. [for non
linguists]
2016. Sprache: das unbekannte Organ. Verein Philadelphia, Athens, November 9, 2016. [for non linguists; Antworten zu Quiz sind auf Anfrage erhältlich]
2015. Marlene
Streeruwitz. Die Reise einer jungen Anarchistin in Griechenland. Das Athener
Literarische Quartett (Philadelphia Verein),
January 23, 2015.
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