
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics Raised Faculty Building Ƶ Sidgwick Avenue Ƶ CB3 9DA United Kingdom
I am currently a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia working on(PI: Eugen Fischer, Co-I: Paul Engelhardt). I am also an affiliated lecturer at theat the Ƶ, where I hold a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for the project: “”.
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, German, Spanish and Catalan). Growing out of my research on generics both from a theoretical and an experimental perspective investigating generics across a wider range of languages has become the focus of my current research with the aim to provide the first systematic descriptive characterisation of generics both within and across language families via the use of a toolkit.
I have held teaching and research positions in the UK (Ƶ, Queen Mary University of London, University College London, University of Greenwich), Germany (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Greece (University of Crete) and Spain (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
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.
I studied Greek Philology with a specialisation in Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. I then received a DEA (MPhil equivalent) and a PhD in Cognitive Science and Language from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona completing an interdisciplinary program in philosophy, linguistics and psychology.
- Formal and Experimental Semantics and its Interfaces with Syntax and Pragmatics
- Formal and Experimental Pragmatics
- Cross-linguistic Semantics
- Language acquisition
- Psycholinguistics
- Bi- and Multilingualism
From 2014 to 2015 I was a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the BA/Leverhulme funded project ‘Learning about the world through generic statements: a cross-linguistic perspective’ awarded to Dr Napoleon Katsos and Dr Linnaea Stockall.
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra, and Alexiadou, Artemis. (2025). Verbal fluency in Greek: Performance differences between L1Greek-L2English late bilingual and Greek monolingual speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 28(3), 676-683. doi: [first published online 02 December 2024]
Fischer, Eugen, Engelhardt, Paul,Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra, Stanton, Kate Hazel. (2024). Reasoning with Polysemes: When Default Inferences Beat Contextual Information. In In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2907-2914.
Castroviejo, Elena, Hernández-Conde, Jose,Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra, Ponciano, Marta & Vicente, Agustin. (2023).Language Learning and Development, 19:3, 275-302, DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2022.2071715 [first published online in July 2022]
Castroviejo, Elena,Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra, Ponciano, Marta & Vicente, Agustin. (2021).. In Beltrama, A., Schwarz, F. and Papafragou, A. Proceedings of ELM 1. LSA. 90-100.
de Leeuw, Esther, Stockall, Linnaea,Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra, and Gorba Masip, Celia. (2019). Illusory vowels in Spanish-English late bilinguals: Evidence that accurate L2 perception is neither necessary nor sufficient for accurate L2 production.ٰ:10.1177/0267658319886623
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra, Katsos, Napoleon, and Stockall, Linnaea. (2019). Experimental evidence on genericity and universal quantification in Greek and English. In Chondrogianni, M., Courtenage, S., Horrocks, G., Arvaniti, A., and Tsimpli, I. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. London: University of Westminster, 171-182.
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra,Katsos, Napoleon, and Stockall, Linnaea. (2019). Generalising about striking properties: do glippets love to play with fire? Frontiers in Psychology. 10:1971.DOI:
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra, Stockall, Linnaea, and Katsos, Napoleon. (2019)..Journal of Semantics, 36, 617-664,
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra, and Alexiadou, Artemis.. (2019). In Gattnar, A., Hörnig, R., Störzer, M. & Featherston, S. (Eds.) Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018: Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory. Tübingen: University of Tübingen..
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra.. Cummins, C. and Katsos, N. (Eds.), (2019). Handbook of experimental semantics and pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 155-177.
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra, Stockall, Linnaea, and Katsos, Napoleon. (2017)..Inquiry. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2017.1285993.
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra, Katsos, Napoleon and Stockall, Linnaea. (2017).. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London: UK: Cognitive Science Society, pp.724-729.
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra, Katsos, Napoleon, and Stockall, Linnaea. (2015).. In Hansen, N. and Borg, E. (Eds.),RATIO28(4), Special Issue: Investigating Meaning: Experimental Approaches, 470-494.
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra. Distributivity and genericity in Greek: the case of kathe with the definite article. (2014). In Lavidas, N., Alexiou, T. and Sougari, A.M. (Eds.), Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Selected Papers from the 20th ISTAL, v. 1, London: Versita de Gruyter, 369-384.
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra,and Alexandropoulou, Stavroula. (2013).. In Pires de Oliveira, R. (Ed.),Revista da ABRALIN, 12, 1, Special issue: Weak Definiteness and Referentiality, 233-251.
Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra,and Stockall, Linnaea. (2013).. In Chemla, E., Ƶr, V. and Winterstein, G. (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 325-343.