I am currently a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia working on “Experimental argument analysis: Reasoning with stereotypes” (PI: Eugen Fischer, Co-I: Paul Engelhardt) and a member of the UEA Experimental Philosophy Group. I am also an affiliated lecturer at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a visitor in Linguistics at the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences.
I am a theoretical linguist investigating meaning in language. I investigate issues in semantics and its interfaces with syntax and pragmatics, as well as in language acquisition and bi- and multilingualism. In my post-doctoral research, I have been combining theoretical and experimental methods. I am also interested in philosophy of language.
My main area of research is generic generalisations (statements like ‘Tigers have stripes’ and ‘A cat lands on its feet’) drawing on data from mono- and bilingual adult and child populations (of Greek, English and Spanish).
Before UEA, I was a post-doctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Artemis Alexiadou’s Research Unit on (Experimental) Syntax and Heritage Languages (RUESHeL). My main project was a psycholinguistic study on attrition among Greek-English bilingual speakers, which gave rise to a subsequent sociolinguistic study on language attitude.
I have worked as a visiting lecturer in (Formal) Semantics/Pragmatics at the University of Cambridge (2016), UCL (2012-2015), University of Greenwich (2015-2016), University of Crete (2011) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2009) and as a visiting lecturer in Language Acquisition at Queen Mary, University of London (2015).
My PhD dissertation (‘Cognitive science and language’ program at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) analysed the notion of definiteness and the interplay of the definite article with other determiners and quantifiers in Greek. My supervisors were Louise McNally and Josep Maria Brucart.
Contact info
E-mail
dl518[at]cam.ac.uk
D.Lazaridou-Chatzigoga[at]uea.ac.uk
Postal address
School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies & School of Psychology
University of East Anglia
Norwich Research Park
Norwich, Norfolk
NR4 7TJ, UK
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
9 West Road
CB2 9DP
Cambridge, UK