Sabine Iatridou
American linguist
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Sabine Iatridou is a linguist whose research investigates the syntax‐semantics interface. Her research has helped to delineate theories of tense and modality.
Sabine Iatridou | |
|---|---|
| Born | Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Topics in conditionals (1991) |
| Noam Chomsky | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Syntax, semantics |
Academic career
Iatridou was born in Thessaloniki. She 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. Under the supervision of Noam Chomsky, she explored the topic of conditionals in her dissertation.[1]
Upon receiving her PhD, Iatridou 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. In 2021, she was named the David W. Skinner Professor of Linguistics at MIT.[3]
Iatridou has chaired a number of dissertations on topics in theoretical linguistics.[4][5] She has explored the semantic and syntactic structures in a range of indigenous languages, including National Science Foundation-sponsored work on Mebengokre, an under-described language from the Je language family that is spoken in the eastern Amazon region of Brazil.[6] Additionally, she has examined the syntax-semantics interface of relative clauses in the Uto-Aztecan languages of Hiaki (Yaqui) and O'odham (Papago).[7]
Awards
In 1994 and 1997 Iatridou received the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award.[8]
In 2016, Iatridou was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[9][10]
In 2016, The University of Crete's Department of Philology awarded an honorary doctorate to Iatridou.[11][12]
In 2020, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the field of study of linguistics.[13][14]
Key publications
- 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.
- "Our 'even'- Presentation at Universität Göttingen", September 17, 2014.
