Sabine Iatridou
Born
Thessaloniki, Greece
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisTopics in conditionals (1991)
Doctoral advisorNoam Chomsky
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineSyntax, semantics

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]

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References

  1. ^ Iatridou, Sabine (1991). Topics in conditionals (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/13521.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "MIT SHASS: News - 2021 - Sabine Iatridou named David W. Skinner Professor of Linguistics". shass.mit.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  4. ^ Bhatt, Rajesh (1999). Covert Modality in Non-Finite-Contexts (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). University of Pennsylvania.
  5. ^ Copley, Bridget Lynn (2002). "The Semantics of the Future" (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  6. ^ Iatridou, Sabine. "Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Syntax and Semantics of Mebengokre Nominalizations".
  7. ^ Iatridou, Sabine; Pesetsky, David. "DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Syntax of Prerelatives".
  8. ^ "DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Syntax of Prerelatives". Grantome. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  9. ^ "Sabine Iatridou and Kai von Fintel named fellows of the Linguistics Society of America". MIT News. 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  10. ^ "LSA Fellows By Name". Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ Marin, Lucian E. (2016-03-28). "Sabine Iatridou receives an honorary doctorate". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  13. ^ Pryor, Julie (2020-04-14). "Three from MIT awarded 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  14. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Sabine Iatridou". Retrieved 2021-07-14.


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