Ioanna Sitaridou
Biographic Data
| ID | 92705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ioanna Sitaridou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ioanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Sitaridou |
| SIGNATURE | SITARIDOU I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4883-0436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Obituary: Professor Peter Mackridge (1946–2022): A tribute to his contribution to the study of Pontic Greek
(In)felicitous use of subjects in Greek and Spanish in monolingual and contact settings
This paper focuses on subject distribution in Greek and Chilean Spanish, both null subject languages, as evidenced in the oral production of monolingual and bilingual speakers. Narratives elicited from 40 monolinguals and 76 bilinguals of different types, namely, first- generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers, were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively to explore potential differences in expressing subject reference bet…
Never just contact: The rise of final auxiliaries in Asia Minor Greek
In this article, we investigate the diachronic developments that gave rise to final auxiliaries – a hallmark of head-final syntax – in Asia Minor Greek, a cluster of Greek varieties originally spoken in the area historically known as Asia Minor (present-day Anatolia, Turkey) within the recent developments of the generative framework, i.e., the minimalist program. We propose that the original source for the final auxiliaries in Asia Minor Greek is…
Correlations between Case and the D-system and the interpretability of Case
A correlation between articles and Case has long been noted based on diachronic evidence. Beyond articles, evidence supports that this correlation extends further to clitics and the determiner system (the D-system) at large. The D-system in turn supports referential functions in grammar and is closely correlated to Person. The aim of the present article is to link support for these facts to the broader foundational question and independent recent…
Fronting in Old Spanish
The article focuses on a cross-genre study of fronting phenomena in 13th Century Old Spanish. In particular, we study stage topics and deictic fronting, fronting in quotative inversion, quantifier fronting and information/broad/weak focus fronting comparatively, for the first time, in three types of texts (that is, (a) Cantar de Mío Cid, (b) La Fazienda de Ultra Mar, and (c) Estoria de España and General Estoria) while we compare with equivalent …
Microparametric variation in the syntax of Spanish and Greek pronominal subjects
The present research aims to investigate the interface phenomenon of third-person subject distribution in two prototypical null subject (NS) languages, Greek and Spanish focusing on Chilean Spanish, in adult monolingual speakers. The data were obtained from oral production of narratives (Study 1) and anaphora resolution (AR) (Study 2). All elicited data were submitted to statistical analyses while the production data were as well qualitatively sc…
Assessing the sociolinguistic vitality of Istanbulite Romeyka: An attitudinal study
We assess the sociolinguistic vitality of Romeyka, the only Asia Minor Greek variety, which, albeit endangered, is still spoken in the Black Sea region, Turkey (historically known as Pontus), by means of nine extralinguistic (i.e. sociological) and sociolinguistic factors, specially tailored for the situation of Romeyka. Our current vitality assessment addresses an Istanbulite community, although the results will be compared against a rural commu…
Discourse-driven V-to-C in Early Modern Romanian
The Romeyka infinitive: Continuity, contact and change in the Hellenic varieties of Pontus
One Pontic Greek variety, Romeyka of Of, Turkey, today preserves a robust infinitive usage. Comparing the current infinitival distribution in Romeyka with previous stages of Greek, I argue that: (a) the Romeyka infinitive has roots in Ancient Greek due to preservation of the construction prin “before” with infinitive, which remains extremely productive, but which did not survive in other varieties into early medieval times and is only found as a …
Modality, antiveridicality and complementation: The Romeyka infinitive as a negative polarity item
Contrastivity in Pontic Greek
Coping With Stigmatized Linguistic Identities: Identity and Ethnolinguistic Vitality Among Andalusians
This study was an investigation of the impact of language stigma for identity functioning among speakers of Andalusian Spanish. Fifteen Andalusian Spaniards were interviewed using a semistructured interview schedule. Qualitative thematic analysis was used to analyze the data guided by identity process theory and the ethnolinguistic vitality framework. The following themes are outlined: (a) threatened linguistic identity and vitality (re)construct…
On the Emergence of Personal Infinitives in the History of Spanish
The aim of this article is twofold: (a) To evaluate the learned source for the rise of personal infinitives in the history of Spanish, and (b) to address the issue of the origin of personal infinitives from the perspective of language acquisition. It is argued, by means of novel empirical evidence derived from the Corpus del Español , that the Latin Accusativus cum Infinitivo source is responsible for the personal infinitive in complement positio…
Modality, antiveridicality and complementation: The Romeyka infinitive as a negative polarity item
Assessing the sociolinguistic vitality of Istanbulite Romeyka: An attitudinal study
We assess the sociolinguistic vitality of Romeyka, the only Asia Minor Greek variety, which, albeit endangered, is still spoken in the Black Sea region, Turkey (historically known as Pontus), by means of nine extralinguistic (i.e. sociological) and sociolinguistic factors, specially tailored for the situation of Romeyka. Our current vitality assessment addresses an Istanbulite community, although the results will be compared against a rural commu…
Contrastivity in Pontic Greek
Discourse-driven V-to-C in Early Modern Romanian
On the Emergence of Personal Infinitives in the History of Spanish
The aim of this article is twofold: (a) To evaluate the learned source for the rise of personal infinitives in the history of Spanish, and (b) to address the issue of the origin of personal infinitives from the perspective of language acquisition. It is argued, by means of novel empirical evidence derived from the Corpus del Español , that the Latin Accusativus cum Infinitivo source is responsible for the personal infinitive in complement positio…
Coping With Stigmatized Linguistic Identities: Identity and Ethnolinguistic Vitality Among Andalusians
This study was an investigation of the impact of language stigma for identity functioning among speakers of Andalusian Spanish. Fifteen Andalusian Spaniards were interviewed using a semistructured interview schedule. Qualitative thematic analysis was used to analyze the data guided by identity process theory and the ethnolinguistic vitality framework. The following themes are outlined: (a) threatened linguistic identity and vitality (re)construct…
The Romeyka infinitive: Continuity, contact and change in the Hellenic varieties of Pontus
One Pontic Greek variety, Romeyka of Of, Turkey, today preserves a robust infinitive usage. Comparing the current infinitival distribution in Romeyka with previous stages of Greek, I argue that: (a) the Romeyka infinitive has roots in Ancient Greek due to preservation of the construction prin “before” with infinitive, which remains extremely productive, but which did not survive in other varieties into early medieval times and is only found as a …
Modality, antiveridicality and complementation: The Romeyka infinitive as a negative polarity item
Contrastivity in Pontic Greek
Discourse-driven V-to-C in Early Modern Romanian
Assessing the sociolinguistic vitality of Istanbulite Romeyka: An attitudinal study
We assess the sociolinguistic vitality of Romeyka, the only Asia Minor Greek variety, which, albeit endangered, is still spoken in the Black Sea region, Turkey (historically known as Pontus), by means of nine extralinguistic (i.e. sociological) and sociolinguistic factors, specially tailored for the situation of Romeyka. Our current vitality assessment addresses an Istanbulite community, although the results will be compared against a rural commu…
Fronting in Old Spanish
The article focuses on a cross-genre study of fronting phenomena in 13th Century Old Spanish. In particular, we study stage topics and deictic fronting, fronting in quotative inversion, quantifier fronting and information/broad/weak focus fronting comparatively, for the first time, in three types of texts (that is, (a) Cantar de Mío Cid, (b) La Fazienda de Ultra Mar, and (c) Estoria de España and General Estoria) while we compare with equivalent …
Microparametric variation in the syntax of Spanish and Greek pronominal subjects
The present research aims to investigate the interface phenomenon of third-person subject distribution in two prototypical null subject (NS) languages, Greek and Spanish focusing on Chilean Spanish, in adult monolingual speakers. The data were obtained from oral production of narratives (Study 1) and anaphora resolution (AR) (Study 2). All elicited data were submitted to statistical analyses while the production data were as well qualitatively sc…
Correlations between Case and the D-system and the interpretability of Case
A correlation between articles and Case has long been noted based on diachronic evidence. Beyond articles, evidence supports that this correlation extends further to clitics and the determiner system (the D-system) at large. The D-system in turn supports referential functions in grammar and is closely correlated to Person. The aim of the present article is to link support for these facts to the broader foundational question and independent recent…
(In)felicitous use of subjects in Greek and Spanish in monolingual and contact settings
This paper focuses on subject distribution in Greek and Chilean Spanish, both null subject languages, as evidenced in the oral production of monolingual and bilingual speakers. Narratives elicited from 40 monolinguals and 76 bilinguals of different types, namely, first- generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers, were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively to explore potential differences in expressing subject reference bet…
Never just contact: The rise of final auxiliaries in Asia Minor Greek
In this article, we investigate the diachronic developments that gave rise to final auxiliaries – a hallmark of head-final syntax – in Asia Minor Greek, a cluster of Greek varieties originally spoken in the area historically known as Asia Minor (present-day Anatolia, Turkey) within the recent developments of the generative framework, i.e., the minimalist program. We propose that the original source for the final auxiliaries in Asia Minor Greek is…
Obituary: Professor Peter Mackridge (1946–2022): A tribute to his contribution to the study of Pontic Greek
Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · History (9 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Verb (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (3 works)