Anastasia Giannakidou
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 751275 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anastasia Giannakidou |
| PRENOMES | Anastasia |
| SOBRENOME | Giannakidou |
| ASSINATURA | GIANNAKIDOU A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2266-9410 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 158 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Three strategies for Socratic inquisitiveness in reflective questions
We identify a new phenomenon of reflective questions as expressing aporia : a state of Socratic inquisitiveness that presumes that there is no authoritative answer a question. By formulating an aporetic question, the speaker has an awareness that inquisitiveness will persist and that there may be no epistemic authority that can give a complete and a definitive answer; for this reason, reflective questions are typically self-addressed and appear m…
Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion
In this paper, we present a novel analysis of exclamations as assertions equivalent to particular uses of declarative sentences with emotive verbs. Focusing on wh -exclamatives and declarative exclamations, we offer a wide range of arguments for why they are both assertive. We further argue that like emotive verbs, exclamations convey a presupposition not of factivity but of subjective veridicality anchored to the speaker, and assert the emotion …
The landscape of exclamations
In this response, we clarify some of the main issues that kept surfacing in the seven commentaries. We acknowledge and highlight the significance of the diversity of linguistic means and syntactic configurations that can be used for what has been traditionally called exclamation, and we also address the issue of diverging judgments and introspective data. Finally, we look at the topic from a broader perspective, concluding our discussion with a n…
The Italian futuro as a non-biased epistemic necessity
Referential vagueness, plurality, and discourse dependence
Referentially vague (or ‘ignorance’) indefinites are known to exhibit apparently conflicting behavior: in the singular, they are referentially vague (Giannakidou and Quer 2013, Alonso-Ovalle and Menéndez-Benito 2010, 2011, 2013), but in the plural they appear to depend on a discourse given set. The phenomenon is typically discussed in the context of Spanish algún/algunos (Gutiérrez-Rexach 2001, 2010, Martí 2008, 2009); but in this paper we offer …
Bias and Modality in Conditionals
The concept of bias is familiar to linguists primarily from the literature on questions. Following the work of Giannakidou and Mari (Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought: Modality, Mood, and Propositional Attitudes, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2021), we assume "nonveridical equilibrium" (implying thatpand¬pas equal possibilities) to be the default for epistemic modals, questions and conditionals. The equilibrium of conditionals…
Negative Concord and the Nature of Negative Concord Items
This chapter discusses the expressions often referred to as n-words. While this term has been used extensively in the literature, we use here the more neutral term ‘negative concord items’ (NCI) since these expressions do not always contain negation. NCIs behave largely as negative polarity items (NPIs) in requiring negation for grammaticality; and questions arise about whether or not they are semantically negative, and whether they are uniform a…
The semantic roots of positive polarity
A unified analysis of the future as epistemic modality
The Landscape of Negative Dependencies
This chapter updates an earlier discussion of n‐words and negative concord (NC) offered by the first author. Our goal here is to address the considerable developments in the area of n‐words and NC that took place since 2006. As the title suggests, we study negative dependencies within the context of negative dependencies. We have chosen this term as a theory‐neutral way to refer to phenomena that in one way or another involve dependency of an exp…
Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited
Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited
Scalar marking without scalar meaning
This article discusses in detail two cases of even -marked negative polarity items (NPIs) in Greek and Korean that are not scalar or exhaustive. This prima facie paradoxical finding suggests that EVEN-marking is not always an indicator of scalarity—and, at least in the case of the Korean and Greek NPIs discussed, even is grammaticalized as a nonscalar NPI marker. We propose that the nonscalar NPIs are antispecific indefinites with referential vag…
The futurity of the present and the modality of the future
The Nominal Structure in Slavic and Beyond
The contributions in this volume shed new light on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not. The issue is prominent not only for Slavic languages. Drawing on evidence from many other languages, Greek, East Asian, and Basque among them, the book has important implications for answering fundamental questions about the nature of definiteness and quantification.
Exhaustive and non-exhaustive variation with free choice and referential vagueness
The subjective mode of comparison
The dynamics of change in Dutch enig
Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization
Abstract This book addresses recent developments in the study of quantifier phrases, nominalizations, and the linking definite determiner. It reflects the intense reconsideration of the nature of quantification, and of fundamental aspects of the syntax and semantics of quantifier phrases. Leading international scholars explore novel and challenging ideas at the interfaces between syntax and morphology, syntax and semantics, morphology and the lex…
Quantification, definiteness, and nominalization
The dependency of the subjunctive revisited
The landscape of Even
(In)Definiteness, Polarity, and the Role of wh-morphology in Free Choice
In this paper we reconsider the issue of free choice and the role of the whmorphology employed in it. We show that the property of being an interrogative whword alone is not sufficient for free choice, and that semantic and sometimes even morphological definiteness is a pre-requisite for some free choice items (FCIs) in certain languages, e.g. in Greek and Mandarin Chinese. We propose a theory that explains the polarity behaviour of FCIs cross-li…
Only , Emotive Factive Verbs, and the Dual Nature of Polarity Dependency
The main focus of this article is the occurrence of some polarity items (PIs) in the complements of emotive factive verbs and only . This fact has been taken as a challenge to the semantic approach to PIs (Linebarger 1980), because only and factive verbs are not downward entailing (DE). A modification of the classical DE account is proposed by introducing the notion of nonveridicality (Zwarts 1995, Giannakidou 1998, 1999, 2001) as the one crucial…
From Hell to Polarity
Pesetsky's (1987) "aggressively non-D-linked"wh-phrases (likewho the hell; hereinafter, wh-the-hell phrases) exhibit a variety of syntactic and semantic peculiarities, including the fact that they cannot occur in situ and do not support nonecho readings when occurring in root multiple questions. While these are familiar from the literature (albeit less than fully understood), our focus will be on a previously unnoted property of wh-the-hell phras…
The dependency of the subjunctive revisited
From Hell to Polarity
Pesetsky's (1987) "aggressively non-D-linked"wh-phrases (likewho the hell; hereinafter, wh-the-hell phrases) exhibit a variety of syntactic and semantic peculiarities, including the fact that they cannot occur in situ and do not support nonecho readings when occurring in root multiple questions. While these are familiar from the literature (albeit less than fully understood), our focus will be on a previously unnoted property of wh-the-hell phras…
Only , Emotive Factive Verbs, and the Dual Nature of Polarity Dependency
The main focus of this article is the occurrence of some polarity items (PIs) in the complements of emotive factive verbs and only . This fact has been taken as a challenge to the semantic approach to PIs (Linebarger 1980), because only and factive verbs are not downward entailing (DE). A modification of the classical DE account is proposed by introducing the notion of nonveridicality (Zwarts 1995, Giannakidou 1998, 1999, 2001) as the one crucial…
The landscape of Even
Nominalization and ellipsis in the Greek DP
Two DP-internal phenomena in Greek are being distinguished: nominal subdeletion and substantivization. We show that the two cannot be analyzed as instances of the same phenomenon, and that a unified account in terms of ellipsis is untenable. Instead, nominal subdeletion is analyzed as a genuine case of nominal ellipsis, and substantivization as nominalization in the sense of Chierchia (1998). Two novel results can be drawn as consequence of our a…
A unified analysis of the future as epistemic modality
Exhaustive and non-exhaustive variation with free choice and referential vagueness
The subjective mode of comparison
Bias and Modality in Conditionals
The concept of bias is familiar to linguists primarily from the literature on questions. Following the work of Giannakidou and Mari (Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought: Modality, Mood, and Propositional Attitudes, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2021), we assume "nonveridical equilibrium" (implying thatpand¬pas equal possibilities) to be the default for epistemic modals, questions and conditionals. The equilibrium of conditionals…
Scalar marking without scalar meaning
This article discusses in detail two cases of even -marked negative polarity items (NPIs) in Greek and Korean that are not scalar or exhaustive. This prima facie paradoxical finding suggests that EVEN-marking is not always an indicator of scalarity—and, at least in the case of the Korean and Greek NPIs discussed, even is grammaticalized as a nonscalar NPI marker. We propose that the nonscalar NPIs are antispecific indefinites with referential vag…
Referential vagueness, plurality, and discourse dependence
Referentially vague (or ‘ignorance’) indefinites are known to exhibit apparently conflicting behavior: in the singular, they are referentially vague (Giannakidou and Quer 2013, Alonso-Ovalle and Menéndez-Benito 2010, 2011, 2013), but in the plural they appear to depend on a discourse given set. The phenomenon is typically discussed in the context of Spanish algún/algunos (Gutiérrez-Rexach 2001, 2010, Martí 2008, 2009); but in this paper we offer …
The dynamics of change in Dutch enig
Polarity Sensitivity as (Non) Veridical Dependency
Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency
Polarity phenomena have been known to linguists since Klima s seminal work on English negation. In this monograph Giannakidou presents a novel theory of polarity which avoids the empirical and conceptual problems of previous approaches by introducing a notion wider than negation and downward entailment: (non)veridicality. The leading idea is that the various polarity phenomena observed in language are manifestations of the dependency of certain e…
Reverse sluicing in English and Greek
In this article we identify and analyze a novel elliptical phenomenon in English and Greek which we dub reverse sluicing. We show that a complete account of reverse sluicing follows from an extension of the analysis of sluicing proposed in Chung, Ladusaw, and McCloskey (1995). Chung et al.'s operation of IP-copy, which reconstructs a missing IP at LF, supplemented by the standard Heimian analysis of indefinites, can successfully capture the facts…
Specificational pseudoclefts and the semantics of lists
In this paper we propose a novel account of specificational -nonpredicational- copular sentences building on quite old insights found in Higgins (1979)
Affective Dependencies
Nominalization and ellipsis in the Greek DP
Two DP-internal phenomena in Greek are being distinguished: nominal subdeletion and substantivization. We show that the two cannot be analyzed as instances of the same phenomenon, and that a unified account in terms of ellipsis is untenable. Instead, nominal subdeletion is analyzed as a genuine case of nominal ellipsis, and substantivization as nominalization in the sense of Chierchia (1998). Two novel results can be drawn as consequence of our a…
Negative … Concord
Polarity Sensitivity as (Non) Veridical Dependency
The Meaning of Free Choice
From Hell to Polarity
Pesetsky's (1987) "aggressively non-D-linked"wh-phrases (likewho the hell; hereinafter, wh-the-hell phrases) exhibit a variety of syntactic and semantic peculiarities, including the fact that they cannot occur in situ and do not support nonecho readings when occurring in root multiple questions. While these are familiar from the literature (albeit less than fully understood), our focus will be on a previously unnoted property of wh-the-hell phras…
(In)Definiteness, Polarity, and the Role of wh-morphology in Free Choice
In this paper we reconsider the issue of free choice and the role of the whmorphology employed in it. We show that the property of being an interrogative whword alone is not sufficient for free choice, and that semantic and sometimes even morphological definiteness is a pre-requisite for some free choice items (FCIs) in certain languages, e.g. in Greek and Mandarin Chinese. We propose a theory that explains the polarity behaviour of FCIs cross-li…
Only , Emotive Factive Verbs, and the Dual Nature of Polarity Dependency
The main focus of this article is the occurrence of some polarity items (PIs) in the complements of emotive factive verbs and only . This fact has been taken as a challenge to the semantic approach to PIs (Linebarger 1980), because only and factive verbs are not downward entailing (DE). A modification of the classical DE account is proposed by introducing the notion of nonveridicality (Zwarts 1995, Giannakidou 1998, 1999, 2001) as the one crucial…
The landscape of Even
Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization
Abstract This book addresses recent developments in the study of quantifier phrases, nominalizations, and the linking definite determiner. It reflects the intense reconsideration of the nature of quantification, and of fundamental aspects of the syntax and semantics of quantifier phrases. Leading international scholars explore novel and challenging ideas at the interfaces between syntax and morphology, syntax and semantics, morphology and the lex…
Quantification, definiteness, and nominalization
The dependency of the subjunctive revisited
The dynamics of change in Dutch enig
The subjective mode of comparison
The Nominal Structure in Slavic and Beyond
The contributions in this volume shed new light on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not. The issue is prominent not only for Slavic languages. Drawing on evidence from many other languages, Greek, East Asian, and Basque among them, the book has important implications for answering fundamental questions about the nature of definiteness and quantification.
Exhaustive and non-exhaustive variation with free choice and referential vagueness
The futurity of the present and the modality of the future
Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited
Scalar marking without scalar meaning
This article discusses in detail two cases of even -marked negative polarity items (NPIs) in Greek and Korean that are not scalar or exhaustive. This prima facie paradoxical finding suggests that EVEN-marking is not always an indicator of scalarity—and, at least in the case of the Korean and Greek NPIs discussed, even is grammaticalized as a nonscalar NPI marker. We propose that the nonscalar NPIs are antispecific indefinites with referential vag…
The Landscape of Negative Dependencies
This chapter updates an earlier discussion of n‐words and negative concord (NC) offered by the first author. Our goal here is to address the considerable developments in the area of n‐words and NC that took place since 2006. As the title suggests, we study negative dependencies within the context of negative dependencies. We have chosen this term as a theory‐neutral way to refer to phenomena that in one way or another involve dependency of an exp…
Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited
The semantic roots of positive polarity
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