Papers

Journals & Volumes

Alexiadou A., D. Oikonomou & S. Rotter. 2025. Comparing comparatives: appropriateness ratings of synthetic, analytic and double comparatives in American and British English. English Language and Linguistics, 1–39. doi:10.1017/S1360674324000546  

Oikonomou, D. 2022. Detecting a modal with variable force in imperatives: Evidence from its interaction with other operators. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Oikonomou, D. & A. Alexiadou. 2022. Voice Syncretism Cross-linguistically: The view from minimalism. Philosophies.

Oikonomou, D, Rizou V, Bondarenko D, Özsoy O, Alexiadou A. 2022. Scalar and Counterfactual Approximatives: Investigating Heritage Greek in the USA and Germany. Languages. 2022; 7(1):11. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010011

Oikonomou, D., Golcher, F., & Alexiadou, A. 2021. Clitic Left Dislocation and Inverse Scope: Plain indefinites vs. numerals. Journal of Linguistics. 

Oikonomou, D., Golcher, F., & Alexiadou, A. 2020. Quantifier scope and information structure in Greek. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), 81. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1183

Marty, Paul and Despina Oikonomou. 2017. French causatives: The reflexivity puzzle. In: Clair Halpert, Hadas Kotek and Coppe van Urk eds. A Pesky Set: Papers for David Pesetsky. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 80

Gould Isaac, Snejana Iovtcheva and Despina Oikonomou. 2017. Root Realization in Albanian verbal morphology. In Snejana Iovtcheva and Benjamin Strome eds. Papers in Morphology. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 81

Proceedings papers

Oikonomou, D. 2025. Modality in Greek light verbs ginete and kani. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL). 

Oikonomou, D., Tsakali, V., Samarentsi, A., & Vassileiou, B. 2025. Temporal interpretation in directive speech acts: A competition between imperative and 2nd person subjunctive in Greek. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29.

Oikonomou, D. & I. Ilić. 2024.Subjunctive Questions in Serbian.   Journal of Slavic Linguistics 31(3):1-18 DOI:10.1353/jsl.2024.a951677

Alexiadou, A., Karkaletsou, F., & Oikonomou, D. 2024. Double comparatives are more stronger! Evidence from Greek. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL).

Oikonomou, D., Rizou, V., Tsokanos, N., & Alexiadou, A. 2024. How to describe what didn’t happen: Heritage and monolingual strategies converge. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL).

Oikonomou, D. 2021. Modally conditioned mood-switch: The Case of advise-Predicates in Greek. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 31 (SALT)

Oikonomou, D. 2021. Idiomatic Reduplicative Imperatives in Greek. Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics [prefinal version]

Oikonomou, D. & Alexiadou, A. 2021. Preverbal Subjects, CLLD and Inverse Scope in Greek: An experimental study. Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics [prefinal version]

Oikonomou, D., E. Anagnostopoulou & V. Tsakali. 2021. The Development of DATIVE Arguments: Evidence from Modern Greek Clitics. Proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press.

Oikonomou, Despina. 2020. A scalar conditional in Greek: looking for the consequent. In: M. Franke et al. (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24, vol. 2, pp.90–107. Osnabrück University

Ömer Demirok and Despina Oikonomou. 2019. Difficult Imperatives in Turkish. Proceedings of WAFL 14, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics

Oikonomou, Despina. 2017. Sloppy pro in Greek: An E-type analysis. Proceedings of Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 52. Chicago, IL., pp. 391-403

Iovtcheva Snejana and Depina Oikonomou. 2017. Island Obviation in Fragment Answers: Evidence from Bulgarian Li-Questions. Proceedings from the 24th Annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL), ISTAL_2021_Oikonomou_Reduplicated_imperatives

Oikonomou, Despina. 2016. Imperatives are existential modals: Deriving the strong reading as an implicature. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26, eds. Mary Moroney, Carol-Rose Little, Jacob Collard, and Dan Burgdorf,1043–1062

Oikonomou, Despina. 2015. The meaning of alos ‘other’ in Modern Greek. MIT Generals paper, Ms.

Oikonomou, Despina. 2014. In the Middle of Passive: Middle Voice in Modern Greek vs. Passive Voice in English. MIT Generals paper, Ms.