Presentations

This is an overview of presentations at workshops and conferences. If you are interested in a handout/poster, please e-mail me.

2025

  • Fantasy Play and the Language of Emplotment in Greek L1 Children. Poster presentation in CogSci 2025 Conference, San Francisco, CA (Despina Oikonomou, Vina Tsakali, Maria Gatsou, Benedict Vassileiou, Mary Kaniadaki, Danai Karatzanou, Irini Amanaki)
  • Prosodic Cues in Differentiating Request and Permission Directive Speech Acts.  CogSci 2025 Conference, San Francisco, CA. (Despina Oikonomou, Vina Tsakali, Maria Gatsou, Katerina Iliopoulou, Benedict Vassileiou)
  • The development of Mood and Aspect in Greek Directive Speech Acts. AMGL45 (https://lit.auth.gr/en/amgl45-en/) at Aristotle University. (Vina Tsakali, Despina Oikonomou, Maria Gatsou, Katerina Iliopoulou, Benedict Vassileiou, Marina Mastrokosta, Mary Kaniadaki, Danae Karatzanou & Irini Amanaki)
  • The many faces of imperative ela ‘come’ in Greek spontaneous (child) speech. Poster presentation in LOT Winter School 2025  (Katerina Iliopoulou, Maria Gatsou, Alexandra Samarentsi, & Despina Oikonomou). 

2024

  • Temporal interpretation in Directive Speech Acts: A competition between imperative and 2nd-person subjunctive in Greek. (with Vina Tsakali, Alexandra Samarentsi, Benedict Vassileiou). Sinn und Bedeutung 29, Noto 2024
  • Mood selection and likelihood: An experimental study in Greek (with  Vasilis Balas, Ilias Triantafyllopoulos, Donka Farkas, Paul Portner, Onur Özsoy, & Vina Tsakali). Poster presented at XPRAG.it 2024

2023

  • Subjunctive as a modal operator: Evidence from matrix and embedded questions. 16th  International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL16).
  • Μodality in Greek light verbs ginete and kani. 16th  International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL16).

2022

  • Double comparatives are more stronger! Evidence from Greek (with Artemis Alexiadou, and Fenia Karkaletsou). 15th  International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL15).
  • How to describe what didn’t happen: Heritage and monolingual strategies converge (with Vasiliki Rizou, Artemis Alexiadou & Nikolaos Tsokanos) 15th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL15).
  • Anticausatives are weak scalar expressions: experimental evidence from Greek (with Fabienne Martin, Florian Schäfer, Felix Golcher, Artemis Alexiadou). Workshop on Change of State Verbs – Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives (DGfS), February 23-25

2021

  • Conjunction, disjunction and their interaction with negation in child Greek (with Vina Tsakali and Marina Mastrokosta). 7th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition (BUCLA), 19–20 November
  • Not-OR versus NEITHER: Logical inferences in child Greek (with Vina Tsakali and Marina Mastrokosta). 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-46), November 4–7
  • Subjunctive Questions: Intra– & Cross–linguistic Puzzles. Invited Talk at the Graduate Workshop on General Linguistics, University of Crete, September 23
  • EITHER exclusive OR inclusive: Evidence from adult and child Greek language (with Vina Tsakali and Marina Mastrokosta). Workshop on Experimental approaches to language universals in structure and meaning. ESSLLI, 2-3 August
  • Double comparatives: structural complexity and evaluativity (with Artemis Alexiadou and Fenia Karkaletsou). Keynote presented by Artemis Alexiadou at the 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics June 16, Oslo
  • The development of DATIVE clitics in Modern Greek (with Elena Anagnostopoulou & Vina Tsakali), at the 41st Annual Meeting Department of Linguistics (AMGL49), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,  13-15 May
  • Subjunctive Questions in Serbian (with Ivona Ilić) at the Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 30 (FASL30), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 13-16 May
  • Modally conditioned mood-switch: the case of ADVISE predicates in Greek  at the at the 31st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT-31), Brown University (virtual), 7-9 May
  • Go but take your jacket! Imperatives acquire their quantificational force on the way. Invited talk at Istanbul Aydın University, School of Foreign Languages (Friday, January 8th 2021, virtual)

2020

2019

  • Modal anchoring in covert modals: a dichotomy between mood and aspect in Greek. Talk presented at OASIS 2, Nantes, October 16-18, 2019.
  • A scalar conditional in Greek: looking for the consequent. Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Osnabrück 2019
  • Clitic Left Dislocated Numerals: Split scope and lower bound interpretation (with Felix Golcher). Poster presented at XPRAG, Edinburgh 2019
  • Inverse scope in CLLD: Why numerals have it?. Talk presented at the workshop “The meaning of numerals” at ZAS, Berlin.

2018

  • Difficult Imperatives in Turkish (with Ömer Demirok). Poster presented at WAFL-14, MIT [poster-slides]
  • Inverse scope in Greek: Scope transparency and alternative constructions (with Artemis Alexiadou). Talk presented at AMBIGO 2018, University of Göttingen
  • Imperative Imperfective Interrogatives in Greek and German. Poster presented at the Workshop on Non-Canonical Questions (MiQ2018), University of Konstanz [handout]
  • Subjunctive interrogatives in Greek: Prosody & meaning. Poster presented at AMGL-39, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki [poster]

2017

  • Imperatives: How minimal are they? Poster presented at SUB 22, ZAS & University of Potsdam [poster]
  • Prosody and the interpretation of imperatives in Greek. Invited Talk at the workshop on Experiment and Theory in Syntax and Semantics (CreteLing Summer School 2017), University of Crete
  • Negation in Greek Imperatives. Invited Talk at the circle Oberseminar English Linguistics, Göttingen University
  • Imperatives: minimal but modalized. Talk presented at the workshop ‘Imperatives, Performativity, and Commitment’, ZAS

2016

  • Voice Allosemy in Synthetic Passives: Towards a Phasal Account. Talk presented at Genus Verbi, Wittenberg [handout]
  • Imperatives are existential modals; Deriving the must-reading as an Implicature. Poster presented at the 26th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT-26), University of Texas at Austin
  • Sloppy pro in Greek: An E-type analysis. Talk presented at CLS-52, University of Chicago
  • Interpretation Domains in the Verbal Spine: Synthetic vs. Analytic morphology (with Artemis Alexiadou). Poster presented at GLOW 39, University of Göttingen

2015

  • C-Negation is not Constituent Negation but CP-Negation: Evidence from Modern Greek, Talk presented at ICGL-12, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Intonation and interpretation of alos ‘other’ in Modern Greek, ICGL-12, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Island Obviation in Fragment Answers: Evidence from Bulgarian Li-Questions (with Snejana Iovtcheva). Talk presented at FASL-25, New York Universtity
  • C-Negation is not Constituent but Clausal-Negation. Talk presented at Jerusalem Workshop on Syntax and Semantics: Negation & Polarity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem