
Studies
2000
|
Doctor
of Philosophy in Linguistics, University of Manitoba , Canada
(dissertation title: The Features
of Movement in Romanian ) |
| 1992-1996
|
ABD
in English Linguistics, University of Bucharest , Romania
(dissertation title: Word Order and Language Type) |
| 1994-1995
|
University
of Stockholm , Linguistics Department , Sweden
(visiting researcher) |
| 1992-1993
|
Oxford
University, Wolfson College , UK (visiting researcher)
|
| 1992
|
TESL
Certificate, British Council, Bucharest |
| 1989
|
Bachelor of
Arts (Honours): English (literature and linguistics) & French
(literature and linguistics)
University of Bucharest , Romania
(thesis title: The Explicit Performative Sentence in English) |
Positions
| July 1 2008 -on
2003- 2008 |
Associate Professor in Linguistics, DLLL, York University, Canada
Assistant
Professor in Linguistics, DLLL, York University, Canada |
2002-2003 |
SSHRC
Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor, Department of Linguistics, and
Metcalf Fellow, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada
|
2001-2002
|
Sessional
Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University
of Toronto, Canada |
04-06/2001 |
Instructor
in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba,
Canada |
01-04/2001 |
Instructor
in TESL, English Language Centre, University of Manitoba, Canada
|
| 09-12/2000
|
Assistant
Professor in Linguistics, English Department,
University of Bucharest , Romania |
| 1991-1996
|
Instructor
in Linguistics and TESL, English Department,
University of Bucharest , Romania |
Grants
and Awards
| 2007
2005
2002-2004
2002-2003 |
with
Peter Avery, Faculty of Arts Research Grant,
York University
Faculty
of Arts Research Grant, York University
SSHRC
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Linguistics, University
of
Toronto, Canada (2003-2004 portion declined)
Metcalf
Fellowship, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada |
| 2001
|
Faculty
of Arts nominee for University of Manitoba Distinguished
Dissertation
Award, University of Manitoba, Canada |
| 1996-2000
|
University
of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship, Canada |
| 1996 |
Clarence
Bogardus Sharpe Memorial Scholarship, University of Manitoba , Canada
|
| 1995 |
Linguistics
Society of America Fellowship for 1995 LSA Linguistics Institute,
US |
| 1994-1995
|
Svenska Institutet
Research Scholarship, University of Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1992-1993 |
SOROS Research
Scholarship, Oxford University , UK |
Refereed
Publications
| 2009
2007
2006
2004 |
Null expletives and Case: The view from Romance, in Romance Languages: Structure, interfaces, and microparametric variation, Pascual Masullo (ed), 1-19, John Benjamins
Moving
Forward with Romanian Control and Raising,
in Expanding Vistas in the Analysis of Control and Raising,
S. Dubinsky and W. Davies (eds), Springer, SNLLT Series
Are
we in Agreement? in Agreement Systems, Cedric
Boeckx (ed), 13-39, John Benjamins
Optionality
at the Interface: Triggering Focus in Romanian, in Henk
van Riemsdijk and Anne Breitbath (eds.), 49-75, Triggers,
Mouton de Gruyter |
| 2004 |
SE
and the Unaccusative-Unergative Paradox, (with Michael
Barrie & Chiara Frigeni), in
Martine Coene, Gretel de Cuyper, and Yves D'Hulst (eds.), 109-139, Current Studies in Comparative Romance Linguistics , Antwerp
Papers in Linguistics 107, Universiteit Antwerp
|
| 2003 |
Operator
Asymmetries in Romanian: Syntax and/or Phonology?, in
A. T. Pérez-Leroux and Y. Roberge (eds), 3-18, Romance
Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition , John Benjamins |
| 2002 |
The
Features of Movement in Romanian, Bucharest :Editura Universitatii Bucuresti |
| 2000 |
The
generative approach to Romanian syntax: an overview, with
Virginia Motapanyane, in Virginia Motapanyane (ed.), 1-48, Comparative
Studies in Romanian Syntax , Elsevier: Dordrecht |
| 1999 |
(De)-Focusing
and Object Raising in Romanian, in Canadian Journal
of Linguistics 44(1), 1-22 |
1994 Optimality
and Subject Positions in Germanic, in Revue roumaine
de linguistique , XL,
4, 201-216, Bucharest : Romanian Academy Press
1994
Functional Categories and Word Order in Germanic, in Revue
roumaine
de linguistique , XXXIX, 3-4, 249-266, Bucharest:
Romanian Academy Press
Non-refereed
Publications
| to appear
2009
to appear
2005
2004
|
with Peter Avery, Argument-Adjunct Asymmetries in Ndebele: The long and the short of it, BWPL 2009, EUB
with Michael Barrie, Phasehood, Case, and Noun Incorporation, in Proceedings of NELS 38
with Michael Barrie, Notes on the (semi)reflexive in Iroquoian, in
Proceedings of Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of
the Americas 12, UBCWPL
Transitivity
Alternations and Root (Non)-Augmentation in Onondaga
(with
Michael Barrie) , in University of British Columbia Working
Papers in
Linguistics:
Proceedings from the 10th Workshop on Structure and
Constituency
of Languages of the Americas
Shared
Arguments in Control, Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics
#22, 53-74, University of Toronto Press |
| 2004 |
Derived
reflexives in Romance: The Case of SE, (with Michael Barrie
and Chiara Frigeni), in Proceedings from the 2002 CLA Conference
,
7-14, UQAM Press |
| 2001 |
Optionality
and the Copy Theory of Movement, in Bucharest Working
Papers in Linguistics , II (1), 71-80 Bucharest : Editura Universitatii Bucuresti |
| 2000 |
Contrastive
Focus and Sentence-Initial Operators in Romanian, in Proceedings
from the 1999 CLA Conference , Cahiers Lingustique d'Ottawa,
1-12, University of Ottawa Press |
| 1999 |
Contrastive
Focus in Romanian, in Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics,
I (1), 79-106, Editura Universitatii Bucuresti |
| 1999 |
Object
Raising in Romanian, in Proceedings from the 1998 CLA
Conference , Cahiers Lingustique d'Ottawa, 1-11, University
of Ottawa Press |
| 1996 |
Review
of 'The Historical Evolution of the Impersonal Sentence
Structure in English' by Dr. Florica Bancila, in Annals ,
Bucharest : Editura Universitatii Bucuresti |
Editorships
2007 with Larisa Avram, Andrei Avram and Daniela Isac.
Pitar Mos: A building with a view. Festschrift Alexandra Cornilescu. Bucharest: Editura Universitatii Bucuresti
2000-2001 Member, Editorial Board for Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
Recent Conferences
and Workshops
2009 Re-structuring Aspect in Onondaga (with Michael Barrie), WSCLA 14, April 1-3,
Purdue University
2009 Feature-ing Silence: On PRO and pro in Romanian, LSRL 39, March 27-29,
University of Arizona, Tucson
2008 Feature-ing Silence: Contextualizing PRO and pro. Workshop on Strategies of
personal pronoun interpretation in Romanian, Nov. 30, University of Bucharest
2008 On Silent Categories and Case. Syntax Brown Bag, New York University, Oct.24
2008 Null expletives and Case values. Workshop on “Null subjects, expletives and
locatives in Romance.” University of Konstanz, Germany, March 27-29.
2008 Ndebele Verbal Morphology and DP Argument-Adjunct Asymmetries
(with Peter Avery), ACAL 39, University of Georgie, Athens
2008 Telicity and DP argument-adjunct asymmetries in Ndebele (with Peter Avery).
The 82 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Chicago, IL.
2007 Phasehood, Case, and Noun Incorporation (with Michael Barrie).
The 38th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 38),
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, October.
2007 Inherited Features and Cases of PRO. Concordia Symposium on Generative
Grammar, Concordia University, Montréal, September.
2007 The
Case of PRO, The
Canadian Linguistic Association Conference,
University of Saskatchewan
2007 Notes
on the (semi)-reflexive in Iroquoian (with Michael Barrie),
WSCLA 12, University of Lethbridge
2007
Null
expletives and Case: The view from Romance, LSRL 37, University of
Pittsburgh
2006 A-related Edge Features, Interface at the Edge Conference,
University of Bucharest, Romania
2005 Constraining Movement in Romanian Subject Control, Going Romance
2005, Utrecht University,
the Netherlands
2005 Reflecting on Reflexive Complexity, (with Michael Barrie), BWTL 9,
University of Western Ontario, London, ON
2005
Split Applicative Phrases in Iroquoian: Severing the argument from the
event
(with Michael Barrie), TLS 9, University of Texas at Austin
2005 What Causes a Causative Split (with Michael Barrie), V GLOW Asia, JNU,
New Delhi
2005 Moving
Forward with Romanian Backward Control and Raising, New
Horizons in the Grammar of Raising and Control workshop,
LSA Linguistic
Institute, Harvard University and MIT, Boston, USA
2005
When CP domains are pro-Case,
The Canadian Linguistic Association
Conference, University of Western Ontario, London,
ON
2005
Transitivity Alternations and Root
(Non)-Augmentation in Onondaga.
(with Michael Barrie) , WSCLA 10, University of Toronto , Canada
2004 Tense domains
and cross-linguistic variation in occurrence of lexical
subjects,
BWTL 8, York University , Canada
| 2004 |
Movement
out of Control is Under Control,
Canadian Linguistic Association Conference, University of Manitoba
, Canada |
| 2003 |
Interfaces
and the OCC Asymmetry, Asymmetry at the Interfaces Conference, UQAM,
Montreal |
| 2003 |
Are We in
Agreement?, Lisbon Workshop on Agreement, Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
Portugal |
| 2003 |
Complex Predicates
and Case: Evidence from Romanian, Annual Linguistics Conference,
University of Bucharest , Romania |
| 2003 |
The Ups and
Downs of Obligatory Control, North American Syntax Conference, Concordia
University , Canada |
| 2003 |
On edge:
Complex predicates, phi-features, temporal deixis and Case Workshop
on Complex Predicates, University of Toronto , Canada |
| 2002 |
Optionality
at the Interface, Triggers Workshop, Tilburg University/Cornell
University, The Netherlands |
| 2002 |
SE and the
unaccusative/unergative paradox, with Michael Barrie, Conference
on Comparative Romance Linguistics, University of Antwerp , Belgium
|
| 2002 |
Derived reflexives
in Romance: The Case of SE, with Michael Barrie and Chiara Frigeni,
The Canadian Linguistic Association Conference, University of Toronto
, Canada |
| 2002 |
Operator
Asymmetries in Romanian: Syntax and/or Phonology?, The 32nd Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Toronto , Canada |
| 2001 |
Operator
asymmetries, The Fifth Annual Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical
Linguistics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada |
| 2001 |
Spec,TP Reconsidered:
An Alternative Scopal Position for Wh-phrases, The Canadian Linguistic
Association Conference, Laval University , Quebec City, Canada |
| 2001 |
The Features
of Movement in Romanian, The ACME Balkanica Conference, Concordia
University , Montreal , Canada
|
Courses
taught at York University , DLLL (since 2003)
| LING
1000 |
Introduction to Linguistics (undergraduate level)
|
|
LING 2130
LING 2140
|
Fundamentals of Morphological Analysis (undergraduate)
Fundamentals of Grammatical Analysis (undergraduate)
|
| LING 3140
LING 3150
|
Syntax (undergraduate)
Semantics (undergraduate)
|
| LING 4140
LING 4150 |
Grammatical Theories (undergraduate/graduate level)
Topics in the Syntax-Semantics Interface (undergraduate/graduate)
|
|
Ling 6140 |
Grammatical Analysis (graduate)
|
Courses
taught at The University of Toronto , Deptartment of Linguistics (2001-2003)
| LIN
481/1181 |
Introduction
to Analysis and Argumentation (undergraduate/graduate level) |
| LIN 1231
|
Advanced Syntax:
Minimalist issues: Chomsky 1995 - 2001 (graduate level) |
| LIN 1232
|
Advanced
Syntax: Complex Predicates (graduate level) |
| LIN 100
|
Introduction
to Linguistics (undergraduate level) |
| LIN 331/1131
|
Introduction
to Syntactic Theory |
| LIN 331/1131
|
Introduction
to Syntactic Theory (undergraduate/graduate level) |
LIN 203 |
English Words
Through Time and Space (undergraduate level) |
| Reading
course |
Topic and
Focus |
|
Reading course |
Generative
Syntax: From GB to Minimalism (with Elizabeth Cowper) |
|