Prof Anastasia Giannakidou
Frank J. McLoraine Professor of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago
Anastasia Giannakidou is the Frank J. McLoraine Professor of Linguistics and the College at the University of Chicago, director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, and co-director of the University’s Center for Gesture, Sign and Language. She has been a Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, and served at the Faculty Board of the University’s Institute for the Formation of Knowledge.
Prof. Giannakidou works at the intersection of linguistic semantics and (modern and classical) philosophy of language, and studies how meaning is reflected in grammar, how speakers use language to persuade and deceive, and what ultimately the relation is between language, thought and reality. Besides Greek, she has done comparative work on Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Basque, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese. She is the author of more than 250 articles in scientific journals and edited volumes, and has published five books.
Prof. Gianankidou’s work has received multiple international recognitions. In her most recent book, Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought, with the University of Chicago Press (in collaboration with Alda Mari), Prof. Giannakidou concentrates on the question of how truth judgments are formed, and to what extent they affect grammatical phenomena such as mood choice (subjunctive -indicative) in European languages.