Anastasia Giannaki is a Professor of Linguistics Department of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago, Co-Director of Center for Gesture, Sign and Language, University of Chicago. She is an Associate member of Bilingualism Research Lab. University of Illinois at Chicago. She has been the Visiting professor, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France. Research interest is on Variation in meaning and variation across languages, Processing of semantics and pragmatics, Sign languages, home sign, Bilingualism, Greek syntax-semantics.