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                     PhD, University of Manitoba

BA, University of Bucharest

 

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)