Sabine Iatridou
Sabine Iatridou | |
|---|---|
| Born | Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Topics in conditionals (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Noam Chomsky |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Syntax, semantics |
Sabine Iatridou is a linguist whose research investigates the syntax‐semantics interface. Her research has helped to delineate theories of tense and modality.
Academic career[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- 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.
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "MIT SHASS: News - 2021 - Sabine Iatridou named David W. Skinner Professor of Linguistics". shass.mit.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
- ^ 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.
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