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)
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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 of Linguistics, DLLL, York University, Canada
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, DLLL, York University, Canada
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2002-2003 |
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor, Department of Linguistics, and Metcalf Fellow, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada |
2001-2002 |
Sessional Assistant Professor of 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 of Linguistics, English Department,
University of Bucharest , Romania |
1991-1996 |
Instructor in Linguistics and TESL, English Department,
University of Bucharest , Romania |
Grants and Awards
2011
2011
2007
2005
2002-2004
2002-2003
2001
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SSHRC Standard Research Grant (co-applicant)
'Cross-linguistic variation in noun incorporation and denominalization' (Eric Mathieu, UofOttawa, principal investigator)
with Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Kristin Andrews, Verena Gottschling,
YUFA Teaching-Learning Development Grant (‘Development of Cognitive Science Program’), York U
with Peter Avery, Faculty of Arts Research Grant ('A Comparison of Bantu and Iroquoian Verbal Morphology and licensing of Noun Phrases'), York University
Faculty of Arts Research Grant ('The Structure of Northern Iroquoian Languages'), York University
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Canada (2003-2004 portion declined)
Metcalf Fellowship, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada
Faculty of Arts nominee for University of Manitoba Distinguished
Dissertation Award, University of Manitoba, Canada |
Recent refereed Publications
to appear
to appear
2009
2009
2009
2007
2007
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with Virginia Hill, Early Modern Romanian and Wackernagel’s Law. SKY, Finland.
with Virginia Hill, The Case of A-bar ECM: Evidence from Romanian. In Stefan Keine and Shayne Sloggett (eds.), Proceeding of the forty-second annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Amherst, UMass: GSLA.
Null expletives and Case: The view from Romance, in Romance Languages: Structure, interfaces, and microparametric variation, Pascual Masullo (ed), 1-19, John Benjamins
with Michael Barrie, Phasehood, Case, and Noun Incorporation. In Anisa Schardl, Martin Walkow, and Muhammad Abdurrahman
(eds.), Proceedings of the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the North
East Linguistic Society, Volume One. 25-39. Amherst, UMass: GSLA. Sept.
with Peter Avery, Argument-Adjunct Asymmetries in Ndebele: The long and the short of it. In Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, vol.XI, no. 1, 165-186. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press. October.
with Larisa Avram, Andrei Avram and Daniela Isac.
Pitar Mos: A building with a view. Festschrift Alexandra Cornilescu. Bucharest: Editura Universitatii Bucuresti
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
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Recent non-refereed Publications
2010
2008
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A-Probes, Case, and (In)Visibility, LingBuzz, 85 pages.
http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/001163
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
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Recent Conferences and Workshops
2012 ‘The level of Verb Movement in Old Romanian Declaratives.’ Romanian: Synchronic and Diachronic Variation, 12th International Conference, Dept. of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Dec. 14-15. Invited speaker.
2012 with Virginia Hill, ‘Resetting the Focus Parameter in Romanian.’ Syntax of the World’s Languages V, University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Oct.
2012 with Virginia Hill, ‘Romanian Raising to Object as Shift in Evidentiality.’ Conference on The Nature of Evidentiality (TNE 2012). Leiden University, Holland, June.
2012 with Virginia Hill, ‘ECM as both A and A-bar Movement: Evidence from Romanian Evidentials.’ The 14th Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED 14), University of Bucharest, Romania, May.
2011 with Virginia Hill, ‘The Case of A-Bar ECM: Evidence from Romanian.’ The 42nd Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 42), University of Toronto, Nov.
2011 with Virginia Hill, ‘Variation in Verb Movement in Old Romanian.’ Symposium on “Variation and Typology: New trends in syntactic research,” Helsinki, Finland, August.
2011 with Virginia Hill, ‘A Criterial Analysis of V-Movement in the Moldavian Chronicles.’ The XIIIth Conference on Diachronic Syntax (DiGS 13), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, June.
2011 with Michael Barrie, ‘Aspect, Mood (and Tense) in Onondaga: A Feature Geometric Approach’, Annual Meeting of The Society for Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), Pittsburgh, USA, January.
2010 Expanding on Aspect in Onondaga (with Michael Barrie), CLA-ACL, Concordia University, May
2010 The Case for (and of) PRO in Romanian, 36th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG 36), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, February.
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
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