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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. University of Tübingen, October 29, 2007.

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), University of Connecticut, Storrs, March 13, 2007.

2006.   Ellipsis and linearization. Ellipsis Workshop, University of Stuttgart, July 24, 2006. 

2006.   Projecting indices. Leiden University, February 1, 2006.

2006.   Projecting the index. University of Stuttgart, January 26, 2006 (for handout see here).

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, University of Potsdam, March 20-21, 2002.

2001.   The MLC, Binding and Scope. Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, February 16, 2001.

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, New York, October 19-21, 2001.

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, University of Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, April 16-18, 2000.

1999.   Scope Rigidity and Scope Ambiguity. University of Jena, December 16, 1999.

1999.   Phrasal Comparatives are not Base-Generated. Utrecht University, November 2, 1999.

1999.   Conjunction Reduction in Subordinate Structures. NELS 30, Rutgers University. 

1999.   Antecedent Contained Gapping. University of Pennsylvania, October 27, 1999.

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. John Hopkins University, May 22, 1998.

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. University of Pennsylvania, February 3, 1998.

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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