American linguist
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
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
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
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
^ 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 .