Sabine Iatridou

Sabine Iatridou is a linguist whose work on syntax and the syntax/semantics interface has helped to delineate theories of tense and modality.

Sabine Iatridou
Born
Thessaloniki, Greece
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisTopics in conditionals (1991)
Doctoral advisorNoam Chomsky
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineSyntax, semantics

Academic career

Iatridou was born in Thessaloniki, 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. Her dissertation, under the supervision of Noam Chomsky, explored the topic of conditionals.[1] After graduation she worked as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, before returning to work at MIT.[2] She served as director of the MIT Linguistics PhD program for many years.

She has chaired a number of dissertations on topics in theoretical linguistics,[3][4] as well many exploring semantic and syntactic structures in a range of indigenous languages, including National Science Foundation-sponsored work on Mebengokre, an underdescribed language from the Je language family, spoken in the eastern Amazon region of Brazil,[5] and work on relative clauses in the Uto-Aztecan languages of Hiaki (Yaqui) and O'odham (Papago).[6]

Awards

In 1994 and in 1997 Iatridou received the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award.[7]

Iatridou was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.[8][9]

In 2016, The University of Crete's Department of Philology awarded an honorary doctorate to Iatridou.[10][11]

Key publications

Kai Von Fintel and Sabine Iatridou. 2008. "How to Say Ought in Foreign: The Composition of Weak Necessity Modals," Time and modality.

Sabine Iatridou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, and Roumyana Izvorski. 2003. "Observations about the form and meaning of the Perfect."Perfect Explorations.

Sabine Iatridou. 2000. "The grammatical ingredients of counterfactuality," Linguistic Inquiry.

Sabine Iatridou. 1990. "About agr (p)," Linguistic Inquiry.

External video
“Our 'even'- Presentation at Universität Göttingen”, September 17, 2014.
Library resources about
Sabine Iatridou
By Sabine Iatridou

References
  1. Iatridou, Sabine (1991). Topics in conditionals (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/13521.
  2. Socratous, Aria (2017-01-21). "Sabine Iatridou: Professor of Linguistics, Syntax and Semantics at MIT". Writers Gang. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  3. https://people.umass.edu/bhatt/papers/bhatt-diss.pdf
  4. http://bcopley.com/wp-content/uploads/copley.dissertation.2002.pdf
  5. Iatridou, Sabine. "Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Syntax and Semantics of Mebengokre Nominalizations". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Iatridou, Sabine; Pesetsky, David. "DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Syntax of Prerelatives". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. NSF Grants from Sabine Iatridou http://grantome.com/search?q=@author%20%20Sabine%20Iatridou
  8. "Sabine Iatridou and Kai von Fintel named fellows of the Linguistics Society of America". MIT News. 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  9. "LSA Fellows By Name". Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  10. "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.
  11. http://www.philology.uoc.gr/events/a/2016/0323-01/
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