Professor Giannakidou works on formal semantics and pragmatics, syntax, and their interfaces. Her research covers languages such as Greek, Germanic, Romance, Basque and Mandarin Chinese. She is currently involved in psycholinguistic research with Prof. Goldin-Meadow from the Psyschology Deptartment of the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Groningen in 1997, and has taught at Chicago since 2001.