Research interests: Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Negation, Tense, Temporal Pronouns, Gestures, Iconicity, Cross-linguistic work
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
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At Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
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Language Acquisition (24.904), Teaching Assistant, Instructor: Athulya Aravind, Spring 2024
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Introduction to Linguistics (24.900), Teaching Assistant, Instructor: Adam Albright, Fall 2023
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Introduction to Linguistics (24.900), Teaching Assistant, Instructor: Adam Albright, Fall 2022
As part of the MIT High School Linguistics initiative:
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Acton Computational Linguistics, Webminar, Acton, MA, Fall 2022
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Archbishop Molloy High School, Guest Lecture, Queens, NY, Spring 2022
Guest Lectures at the following seminars:
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Midterm Review for Language Acquisition (24.904), Instructor: Athulya Aravind, Spring 2024
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Meaning after the Multimodal Revolution Seminar, Instructor: Philippe Schlenker, NYU, Fall 2023
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Reference across Modalities and Domains Seminar, Instructor: Philippe Schlenker, NYU, Fall 2021