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 in Linguistics, DLLL, York University, Canada
Assistant Professor in 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 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
2011
2007
2005
2002-2004
2002-2003
2001
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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
2009
2007
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
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
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 |
Recent non-refereed Publications
2009
2009
2008
2005
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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
with Michael Barrie, Transitivity Alternations and Root (Non)-Augmentation in Onondaga, in University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings from the 10th Workshop on Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas
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Recent Conferences and Workshops
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
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
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