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Effi Georgala

Linguistics Department
Cornell University

203 Morrill Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4701

eg99@cornell.edu




Research

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at Cornell University. I am interested in questions relating to syntactic theory, lexical semantics, corpus linguistics and sentence processing. My dissertation explores the syntax of extra-object constructions crosslinguistically, with a particular focus on English, German and Greek. In my research I combine theoretical work with natural language corpora and quantitative methods.

Projects:
Syntax of applicative constructions and extra-object constructions, focusing on English, German and Greek
Syntax and semantics of null objects of transitive verbs in English
Center embedding in Germanic
Development of a feature-based PCFG for Modern Greek



Papers

Georgala, Effi (submitted) "Short Object Shift and Ditransitive Structure in Greek." In: Current Issues in Mediterranean Syntax. S. Özsoy and A. Gürel (eds). (pdf)

Georgala, Effi and John Whitman (2009) "Ditransitives and Applicative Structure in Greek." In: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 43). Chicago, IL. (pdf)

Georgala, Effi, Waltraud Paul and John Whitman (2008) "Expletive and Thematic Applicatives." In: Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 26). C. B. Chang and H. J. Haynie (eds), 181-189. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. (pdf)

Bowers, John and Effi Georgala (2007) "The Syntax of Goals and Beneficiaries in Modern Greek." In: Studies in the Morpho-syntax of Greek. Artemis Alexiadou (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (pdf)

Georgala, Effi (2003) "A Statistical Grammar Model for Modern Greek: The Context-Free Grammar." In: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Georgala, Effi (2000) "The Translational Correspondence between the Modern Greek Formations Ending in -tos and -menos and their Equivalent Forms in German." In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL). Nicosia, Cyprus.



Presentations

(Upcoming) "The Base Word Order of German Double Object Constructions Revisited," 84th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Baltimore, MD, January 7-10, 2010.

(Upcoming) "Raising/Thematic Applicative Hypothesis and the Hierarchical Order of Objects," invited talk to be presented at the Linguistics Department Research Seminar, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, November 24, 2009.

With Adam Cooper, "On the Loss of Dative in Greek," XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 14, 2009.

"Short Object Shift and Ditransitive Structure in Greek," Mediterranean Syntax Meeting II, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 16-18, 2008.

With Adam Cooper, "On the loss of Dative in Greek," poster presented at the 10th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, August 7-9, 2008.

With John Whitman, "Ditransitives and Applicative Structure in Greek," 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 43), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 3-5, 2007.

With Waltraud Paul and John Whitman, "Expletive and Thematic Applicatives," 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 26), University of California, Berkeley, CA, April 27-29, 2007.

With John Whitman. "Expletive and Thematic Applicatives," Graduate Student Workshop Mellon "Humanities Corridor" in Central New York, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, April 21, 2007.

"Two Distinct Sources for the Dative Alternation," 81st Annual Meeting of the LSA, Anaheim, CA, January 4-7, 2007. 4-7.

With John Bowers, "The Syntax of Goals and Beneficiaries in Modern Greek," Workshop on the Morpho-Syntax of Modern Greek, LSA Summer Institute, MIT and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 22-23, 2005.

"Creation of Lexical Semantic Resources," Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE), Grenoble, France, July 9, 2004.

"A Statistical Grammar Model for Modern Greek," invited talk presented at the XRCE Seminar Series, Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE). Grenoble, France, June 9, 2004.

"Using Morphosyntactic Diagnostics to Automatically Measure the Degree of Transitivity," invited talk presented at the NLP Reading Group, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, March 21, 2003.

"Using Morphosyntactic Diagnostics to Automatically Measure the Degree of Transitivity," Colloquium of the Graduiertenkolleg "Linguistic Representations and their Interpretation," University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, February 13, 2003.



Teaching

TA for Introduction to Linguistics, Fall 05 (Instructor: Amanda Miller)

TA for Introduction to Linguistics, Spring 06 (Instructor: Molly Diesing)

TA for Introduction to Syntax, Fall 06 (Instructor: Julie Legate)

TA for Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics, Spring 07 (Instructor: Dorit Abusch)

Grader for Semantics I, Spring 07 (Instructor: Dorit Abusch)

TA for Exploring German Contexts, Fall 07 (Instructor: Gunhild Lischke)

TA for Theory and Practice of Linguistics, Spring 08 (Instructors: John Whitman and Teresa Galloway)

TA for Introduction to Cognitive Science, Fall 08 (Instructor: Breton Bienvenue)



Linguistic Resources

Computational lexicon of Modern Greek annotated with part of speech, morphological features and lemma

Feature-based CFG of Modern Greek

Newspaper Corpus of Modern Greek

Please contact me if you are interested in either one of these resources.



Service

Paper Reviewer for Syntax

Member, NELS 39 Organizing Committee

Paper Reviewer for COLING/ACL 2006

Co-editor (with Jonathan Howell), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XV (2005)

Student Coordinator of the Cornell Linguistics Circle (CLC) Speaker Series (2004-2006)






Last updated November 15, 2009.