Giorgos Spathas
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A list of my past presentations.
Please contact me at g.spathas@gmail.com if you are interested in any of the hand-outs. 

​2019
  • Proportional modification of gradable adjectives: the case of percentages.
    Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 24.
    Universität Osnabrück, 4-7 September 2019, Osnabrück, Germany.​
  • Relational modification of gradable predicates.
    Invited talk at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
    30 May 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Proportional modification of gradable adjectives: the case of percentages.
    Talk at XPrag-ADJ19 ' The semantics and pragmatics of gradable adjectives'.
    University of Cologne, 23-24 May 2019, Cologne, Germany. 
  • On the grammar of gender inferences.
    Poster presentation at GLOW42.
    University of Oslo, 7-11 May 2019, Oslo, Norway.​
  • Greek percentages at the syntax-semantics interface.
    Talk at AMGL40.
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 5-6 April 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece.
    [joint work with Artemis Alexiadou (Leibniz ZAS/ Humboldt)]
  • Proportional modification of gradable adjectives: the case of percentages.
    Invited talk at the University of Gothenburg.
    12 March 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden. 
​2018
  • An ambiguity account of degree achievements: evidence from additive operators.
    Poster presentation at NELS49.
    Cornell University, 5-7 October 2018, Ithaca, USA.​
  • The semantic non-uniformity of reflexive anaphors.
    Invited talk at the LinG1 Workshop on Agreement and Anaphoricity.
    University of Göttingen, 25-26 September 2018, Göttingen, Germany.
  • Gendered nouns and semantic agreement.
    Talk at the workshop Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Gender.
    Leibniz ZAS, 14-15 June 2018, Berlin, Germany 
2017
  • No designated Voice for English reflexive anaphors.
    Talk at the Cambridge Workshop on Voice
    ​University of Cambridge, 22-24 May 2017, Cambridge, UK.​
  • Results in the decomposition of verbal predicates: evidence from additive operators.
    Invited talk at the University of York, 10 May 2017.
  • Semantic Gender on Greek nominals.
    Talk at the workshop New Perspectives on the Form and Meaning of (Bare) Nominals
    Universidade de São Paulo, 27-28 April 2017, São Paulo, Brazil  
  • On the semantic non-uniformity of reflexive anaphors.
    Invited speaker talk at the 2017 Debrecen Workshop on Pronouns.
    University of Debrecen, 24-25 February, Debrecen, Hungary.
    [handout]
2016
  • Prepositional genitives in Modern Greek beyond suppletion.
    MGDLT 7, University of Crete, 6-8 October, Rethymnon, Greece.
    ​[with Dimitris Michelioudakis and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis]
  • The scope of additive operators: an argument for syntactic event decomposition.
    GLOW 39, University of Göttingen, 5-8 April, Göttingen, Germany. 
    [with Dimitris Michelioudakis (York)] 
  • The scope of additive operators: an argument for syntactic event decomposition.
    Invited talk at the University of Utrecht, 18 February, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
    [Presenting joint work with Dimitris Michelioudakis (York)] 
2015
  • A dedicated possessive reflexive in English.
    SLE 48th Annual Meeting, Locally Bound Possessives Workshop, Leiden University, 2-5 September, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • Nominal ellipsis and the interpretation of gender in Greek.
    Sinn und Bedeutung 20, University of Tübingen, 9-12 September, Tübingen, Germany.
    [with Yasu Sudo (UCL)]
  • On the prosody of focus associating operators in Greek: the contribution of phrasing.
    ICGL12, Freie Universität Berlin, 16-19 September, Berlin, Germany.
    [with Stella Gryllia (Leiden)] 
  • Promiscuous by-phrases in Greveniotika Greek. 
    ICGL12, Freie Universität Berlin, 16-19 September, Berlin, Germany.
    [with Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (LIRMM/ University of Montpellier 2) and Dimitris Michelioudakis (York)]
  • Deriving reflexive interpretations: possessive reflexives in English and Norwegian. 
    Pronouns: Syntax, Semantics, Processing (PSSP), 16-19 June, Moscow, Russia. 
  • Nominal ellipsis and the interpretation of gender in Greek. 
    Agreement Across Borders Conference (AAB2015), 15-16 June, Zadar, Croatia.
    [with Yasu Sudo (UCL)]. [poster]
  • Bisyndetic Distirbutive Conjunction and additive 'ke' under a Diachronic Perspective. 
    22nd International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL22), Thessaloniki, Greece.
    [with Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (LIRMM/ University of Montpellier 2)]
  • Detecting Result Phrases with additive 'ke'. 
    22nd International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL22), Thessaloniki, Greece.
    [with Dimitris Michelioudakis (York)]
  • On deriving the typology of repetition and restitution. 
    GLOW 2015, Paris, France.
    ​[With Winnie Lechner (Athens), Artemis Alexiadou (Stuttgart), and Elena Anagnostopoulou]
2014
  • Deriving local reflexive interpretations. 
    University of Novi Sad. Invited talk.
  • Deriving non-local reflexive interpretations. 
    University of Novi Sad. Invited talk.
  • Focus association with Result Phrases. 
    Athens workshop on semantics and the syntax-sematics interface. University of Athens.
    [with Dimitris Michelioudakis]
  • Non-local reflexive interpretations and the typology of anaphora. 
    NELS 45, MIT.
  • On deriving Principle A: evidence from Greek. 
    Sinn und Bedeutung 19, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany.
  • Disentangling own: evidence from association with focus.
    SALT 24,  New York University, NY. ​[alternate talk]
  • Greek focus operators and their associates.
    AMGL 35, Aristotle  University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 
    ​[with Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Dimitris Michelioudakis]
  • Disentangling own: evidence from association with focus.
    GLOW 37, Semantics workshop 'Understanding Possession', CRISSP,  Brussels. [alternate talk]
  • Tense and aspect modulate relative clause attachment: testing the  PR-Hypothesis in Greek. [slides]
    DGfS 2014, Philipps-Universität Marburg,  Germany. 
    ​[with Nino Grillo] 
2013
  • The content of Voice: evidence from corrective contexts. 
    Little v Workshop, Leiden University, The Netherlands. [poster session]
  • Delimiting Voice in Germanic: on object-drop and naturally reflexiveverbs. 
    NELS 44, University of Connecticut, USA.
    [with Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer]
  • Delimiting Voice in Germanic. 
    CGSW 28, University of Leipzig,  Germany.
    [with Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer]
  • Reflexive interpretations without reflexivization.
    ICGL 11, Rhodes,  Greece. 
    [with Artemis Alexiadou]
  • On deriving Principle A.
    SLE 2013, Split, Croatia.
  • Reflexivizers and intensifiers: consequences for a theory of focus.  
    SALT 23, UC Santa Cruz. [poster session]
  • Reflexive interpretations without reflexivization.
    ISTAL 21, AUTH,  Thessaloniki.
    [with Artemis Alexiadou]
  • Syntactic and conceptual aspects of reflexivity.
    Workshop on Verbal Morphosyntax, University of Stuttgart.
    ​[with Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer]
Older
  • 2012.  Reflexivizers and intensifiers: consequences for a theory of focus.  
    Sinn und Bedeutung 17, Paris, École Normale Supérieure.
  • 2011.  No syntax for F(ocus)-marking.
    Generative Linguistics in the Old  World 33 (GLOW34), University of Vienna. [poster session]
  • 2011.  Focus and the cycle.
    International Symposium on Theoretical and  Applied Linguistics (ISTAL20), University of Thessaloniki.
  • 2010.  Two souces of reflexivization.
    Mediterranean Syntax Meeting 3  (MSM3), University of Athens.
  • 2010.  Focus on reflexive anaphors.
    Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20  (SALT20), Univeristy of British Columbia/ Simon Fraser University.
  • 2009.  Focus on self-anaphors.
    Conference in honour of Eric Reuland,  University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • 2008.  Gender on bound pronouns.
    ConSOLE XVI, Universite Paris Diderot  – Paris 7.
  • 2007.  Gender on bound pronouns.
    38th Meeting of the North-East  Linguistic Society (NELS38). Workshop on binding. University of  Ottawa.
  • 2007.  On the interpretation of gender on nouns and pronouns.
    Workshop  on Greek Syntax and Semantics, MIT.
  • 2006.  Obviated WCO effects and the distribution of clitics in Modern Greek.  
    ​27th Meeting of the Linguistics Department, University of  Thessaloniki.
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