Publications and manuscripts

Most of my current work focuses on the interacting domains of verbal semantics, event structure and measurement. 
I have also worked and continue to work on argument structure, agreement and phi-features, binding theory, and focus theory.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at g.spathas at gmail dot com for comments and criticisms. 

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Publications

• Forthcoming. Measuring change with precise proportions.
• Forthcoming. The event structure of degree achievement predicates: experimental evidence.
  [with Margaret Grant and Jiahao Sun]  
• Forthcoming. The meaning of agreement: evidence from Greek gender.
• Forthcoming. The Syntax-Semantics interface: lessons from Greek. In Tsoulas, G., Michelioudakis D. and Revithiadou A. (Eds), Handbook of Greek Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
  
• Forthcoming. Polydefinites as Markers of Prominence: A Unified Analysis of the Semantics and Pragmatics of Greek Polydefinites.
  [with Stergios Chatzikyriakidis]
  
• 2023. On the source of proportionality in nominal measurement: evidence from Greek. In Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 43(1).
• 2023. The emergence of prepositional genitives in Northern Greek beyond suppletion. In Anagnostopoulou, E., Sevdali, C. & Mertyris, D. (eds.) The place of Case in Grammar. Oxford: OUP.
  [with Dimitris Michelioudakis and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis]
• 2021. Domain-restricted measure functions and the extent readings of relative measures. In Nicole Gotzner and Uli Sauerland (eds.), Measurements, Numerals and Scales: Essays in Honour of Stephanie Solt. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• 2021. Interpretability, aspectual coercion, and event structure in Object-Experiencer verbs: An acceptability study. In Artemis Alexiadou and Verhoeven, Elizabeth (eds), Linguistische Arbeiten 581 The Syntax of Argument Structure: Empirical Advancements and Theoretical Relevance, 137-180.
• 2020. States in the decomposition of verbal predicates: evidence from additive operators. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Pre-final version here.
  [with Dimitris Micheliioudakis]
• 2020. Gender on animal nouns in Greek. Catalan Journal of Linguistics.
  [with Yasu Sudo]
• 2019. Plural anaphoric reference and non-conservativity. In Snippets , 37 (11).
• 2019. An ambiguity account of degree achievement predicates: evidence from additive operators. In J. Baird and Pesetsky, J., Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 3, 163-172. 
• 2016. Nominal ellipsis and the interpretaion of gender in Greek. In Nadine Bade, Berezovskaya, Polina, and Schöller, Anthea, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20, 712-729. 
  [with Yasu Sudo] 
• 2015. Greek focus operators and their associates. In Proceedings of AMGL 35, 167-179. 
  [with Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Dimitris Michelioudakis] 

• 2015. Middle Voice and reflexive interpretations: afto-prefixation in Greek. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. DOI 10.1007/s11049-014-9279-z. Pre-final draft.
  [with Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer] 
• 2015. Non-local reflexive interpretations and the typology of anaphora. In Thuy Bui and Özyildiz, Deniz (editors), Proceedings of NELS 45(3), 93-106. GLSA Publications, Amherst. 

• 2014. Delimiting Voice in Germanic: on object drop and naturally reflexive verbs. In Jyoti Iyer and Kusmer, Leland (editors), Proceedings of NELS 44, 1-14. GLSA Publications, Amherst. 
  [with Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer]

• 2014. Disentangling own: evidence from association with focus. In Todd Snider, D'Antonio, Sarah and Wiegand, Mia (editors), Proceedings of SALT 24, 271-289. CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca: NY. 

• 2013. Reflexive anaphors and association with focus. In Todd Snider (ed.), Proceedings of SALT 23: 376-393. CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca: NY. 

• 2012. Reflexivizers and intensifiers: consequences for a theory of focus. In E .Chemla, V.Homer, and G.Winterstein (editors), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17, on the Semantics Archive. 

• 2011. Focus on reflexive anaphors. In D.Lutz and N.Li (editors), Proceedings of the Semantics and Linguistic Theory XX, CLC Publications, Cornell.

• 2010. Focus on Anaphora: accent placement and the syntax and semantics of anaphors. LOT Dissertation Series, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

• 2009. Interpreting gender on bound pronouns. In Claire Halpert, Jeremy Hartman and David Hill (editors), Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop in Greek Syntax and Semantics at MIT, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 57, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• 2007. Eric Reuland, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and Giorgos Spathas (editors), Argument Structure, Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.