Sabine Iatridou
Sabine Iatridou is a linguist whose work on syntax and the syntax‐semantics interface has helped to delineate theories of tense and modality.
Sabine Iatridou | |
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Born | Thessaloniki, Greece |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Topics in conditionals (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Noam Chomsky |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Syntax, semantics |
Academic career
Iatridou was born in Thessaloniki, spent her childhood in the Netherlands, and then returned to Greece to finish high school and attend college. She earned a DDS in 1982, an MA in Anthropology in 1986 from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and a PhD in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1991. Her dissertation, under the supervision of Noam Chomsky, explored the topic of conditionals.[1]
After graduation she worked as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, before returning to MIT to take up a position as Professor.[2] She served as director of the MIT Linguistics PhD program for many years.
She has chaired a number of dissertations on topics in theoretical linguistics,[3][4] as well many exploring semantic and syntactic structures in a range of indigenous languages, including National Science Foundation-sponsored work on Mebengokre, an underdescribed language from the Je language family, spoken in the eastern Amazon region of Brazil,[5] and work on relative clauses in the Uto-Aztecan languages of Hiaki (Yaqui) and O'odham (Papago).[6]
Awards
In 1994 and in 1997 Iatridou received the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award.[7]
Iatridou was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.[8][9]
In 2016, The University of Crete's Department of Philology awarded an honorary doctorate to Iatridou.[10][11]
In 2020, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the field of study of linguistics.[12][13]
Key publications
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- Sabine Iatridou. 1990. "About agr (p)," Linguistic Inquiry.
- Sabine Iatridou. 2000. "The grammatical ingredients of counterfactuality," Linguistic Inquiry.
- Sabine Iatridou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, and Roumyana Izvorski. 2003. "Observations about the form and meaning of the Perfect."Perfect Explorations.
- Kai von Fintel and Sabine Iatridou. 2008. "How to Say Ought in Foreign: The Composition of Weak Necessity Modals," Time and modality.
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_yNZNOK_Go “Our 'even'- Presentation at Universität Göttingen”, September 17, 2014.
References
- Iatridou, Sabine (1991). Topics in conditionals (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/13521.
- Socratous, Aria (2017-01-21). "Sabine Iatridou: Professor of Linguistics, Syntax and Semantics at MIT". Writers Gang. Archived from the original on 2019-01-07. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- Bhatt, Rajesh (1999). Covert Modality in Non-Finite-Contexts (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). University of Pennsylvania.
- Copley, Bridget Lynn (2002). "The Semantics of the Future" (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
- Iatridou, Sabine. "Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Syntax and Semantics of Mebengokre Nominalizations".
- Iatridou, Sabine; Pesetsky, David. "DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Syntax of Prerelatives".
- "DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Syntax of Prerelatives". Grantome. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
- "Sabine Iatridou and Kai von Fintel named fellows of the Linguistics Society of America". MIT News. 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- "LSA Fellows By Name". Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- "Επίτιμη Διδάκτορας του Πανεπιστημίου Κρήτης η Σαβίνα Ιατρίδου" [Honorary Doctor of the University of Crete, Sabine Iatridou]. RethNea.gr (in Greek). 2016-03-24. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- Marin, Lucian E. (2016-03-28). "Sabine Iatridou receives an honorary doctorate". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- Pryor, Julie (2020-04-14). "Three from MIT awarded 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
- "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Sabine Iatridou". Retrieved 2021-07-14.