Presentations

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

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​2024

• Measuring change with precise proportions.
  Sinn und Bedeutung 29.
  16-20 September 2024, Noto, Italy.​

​2023

• Measuring change with precise proportions.
  Talk at AMGL43.
  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 5 May 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece.​

​2022

• Proportionality and underspecification in the meaning of Degree Achievement predicates
  Talk at AMGL42.
  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 7 May 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece.​

​2020

• Ratio modifiers and the scale structure of negative antonyms.
  Talk at Sinn und Bedetung 25.
  UCL/QMUL, 3-9 September 2020.​

​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.