Anastasia Giannakidou
Anastasia Giannakidou is a professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago. She is co-director of Center for Gesture, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago, along with Diane Brentari and Susan Goldin-Meadow. She is best known for her work on nonveridicality, a theory of the licensing of polarity items. Career. Giannakidou is currently Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago as well as the co-director of the Center for Gesture, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago. She holds a Research Associate position at Institut Jean  Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, and is an associate member of Bilingualism Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Giannakidou received a PhD in linguistics from the University of Groningen in 1997. The title of her thesis is "The landscape of polarity items," published with Groningen Dissertations in Linguistics (GRODIL) 18. The dissertation received the Dissertation Award (Dissertatieprijs) of the Linguistics Association of the Netherlands for the best dissertation in Linguistics in 1998. Before joining the University of Chicago in 2002, Giannakidou was a senior Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), Center for Language and  Cognition, Department of Dutch, Frisian and Low Saxon, University of Groningen between the years 1999–2002. Between 1997 and 1999 she was a Grotius Fellow, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. In 1998-1999 she was a visiting assistant professor, Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus. Giannakidou serves on the editorial boards of the "Journal of Greek Linguistics", "Semantics and Pragmatics", "Edinburgh Advanced Linguistics", "Time in Language and Thought", and "Chicago Studies in Linguistics". Grants and awards. Giannakidou has won several awards from granting agencies, including the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG ) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). From 1999 to 2002 she was a Fellow at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.