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.
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 Bedeutung 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 οperators.
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)].
Bisyndetic Distributive 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'.
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 (Crete)]
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-semantics 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.
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 reflexive verbs.
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 sources of reflexivization.
Mediterranean Syntax Meeting 3 (MSM3), University of Athens.
2010. Focus on reflexive anaphors.
Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20 (SALT20), University 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, Université 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.