Anastasia Tsilia

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First Name

Anastasia

Last Name

Tsilia

E-mail

tsilia@mit.edu

Homepage URL

https://www.anastasiatsilia.com/home

CV URL

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1d0680klbjbgq5n0tm8lq/Academic_CV_Tsilia___shorter.pdf?rlkey=imptzcn6g8cww6u6zf0hbfiz9&dl=0

About

Research interests: Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Negation, Tense, Temporal Pronouns, Gestures, Iconicity, Cross-linguistic work

Manuscripts and Publications

Journal Papers

Tsilia, A. (2025), Hidden Causality in Modern Greek, Natural Language Semantics 33:3. link

Tsilia, A. (forthcoming), Dispositional 'will' is 'want' in Colloquial Jakarta Indonesian, Studia Linguistica. link

Nicolae, A.C., A. Petrenco, A. Tsilia & P. Marty (2024), Do Languages Have Exclusive Disjunctions?, Open Mind Journal, 8, pp. 1469-1485. link

Proceedings Papers

Tsilia, A. (forthcoming), (In)direct evidential futures in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian, Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55), Yale University.

Nicolae, A.C., A. Petrenco, A. Tsilia & P. Marty (2025), Exclusivity and exhaustivity of disjunction(s): a cross-linguistic study, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28 (SuB 28), Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, pp. 1098-1113. link

Tsilia, A. & Z. Zhao (2025), Why is 'then' incompatible with the present?, Proceedings of the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), UC Berkeley. link

Tsilia, A. & K. Davidson (2024), Effects of iconicity and monotonicity in licensing complement anaphora, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. link

Morgunova, K. & A. Tsilia (2024) Why would you D that? On the D-layer in Greek clausal subjects, Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 59 (CLS 59), University of Chicago. link

Tsilia, A. (2023), Proleptic constructions in Modern Greek, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27, Charles University, Prague, pp. 655-673. link

Tsilia, A. (2022), How many roads are there to a simultaneous reading?, ConSOLE XXX: Proceedings of the 30th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. link

Tsilia, A. (2022), A mixed tense system: Two roads to the simultaneous reading in Modern Greek, Proceedings of the 45th Penn Linguistics Conference, The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL), vol. 28.1, Article 22., pp.194-203. link

Tsilia, A. (2021), Embedded Tense: Insights from Modern Greek, Cogmaster M.Sc. Thesis, PSL Research University. lingbuzz/006127

Presentations

See website.

Handouts

See website.

Teaching Experience

At Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

Language Acquisition (24.904), Teaching Assistant, Instructor: Athulya Aravind, Spring 2024
Introduction to Linguistics (24.900), Teaching Assistant, Instructor: Adam Albright, Fall 2023
Introduction to Linguistics (24.900), Teaching Assistant, Instructor: Adam Albright, Fall 2022

As part of the MIT High School Linguistics initiative:

Acton Computational Linguistics, Webminar, Acton, MA, Fall 2022
Archbishop Molloy High School, Guest Lecture, Queens, NY, Spring 2022

Guest Lectures at the following seminars:

Midterm Review for Language Acquisition (24.904), Instructor: Athulya Aravind, Spring 2024
Meaning after the Multimodal Revolution Seminar, Instructor: Philippe Schlenker, NYU, Fall 2023
Reference across Modalities and Domains Seminar, Instructor: Philippe Schlenker, NYU, Fall 2021