Elizabeth Cowper Professor, Department of Linguistics University of Toronto Ph.D., Brown University, 1976 A.M., Brown, 1974, B.A., McGill, 1972 Shodan, Jinbukai Canada, 2001 e-mail: cowper at chass dot utoronto dot ca Curriculum Vitae

Selected publications and downloadable papers:

• Constraints on sentence complexity:  a model for syntactic processing.  (1976) Ph.D. thesis, Brown University.
• A Concise Introduction to Syntactic Theory:  The Government-Binding Approach.  (1992) University of Chicago Press.
• "English Participle Constructions." (1995) Canadian Journal of Linguistics vol 40, no. 1, pp. 1-38.
• "A unified account of Hungarian va/ve participle constructions." (1995) Proceedings of CLA, published by Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.
• "Features of Tense in English." (1996) in Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 14, no. 2.
• "Sequence of Tense and the Binding Theory." (1996) Proceedings of CLA, published by Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics.
• "Irrealis in English." (1997) Proceedings of CLA, published by Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics.
• "The Complexities of the English Simple Present." (1997) Winnipeg: Voices of Rupert's Land.
• "The Simple Present Tense in English: A Unified Treatment," (1998) Studia Linguistica 52:1-18.
• "Taking the Wide View." (1998) Review of Jackendoff's The Architecture of the Language Faculty. GLOT International, Leiden.
• "Grammatical  Aspect in English." (1999) The Linguistic Review 16.3.
• (with Daniel Currie Hall) "Intransitive and: Locality, Movement and Interpretation" (2000). (.pdf file) Proceedings of CLA, published by Cahiers Linguistiques d'Ottawa.
• "Feature Geometry and Verbal Inflection." (2001) Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.
• (with Daniel Currie Hall) "Overriding the Phase." (2001) (.pdf file) Proceedings of CLA, published by Cahiers Linguistiques d'Ottawa.
• "Finiteness" (2002) (.pdf file)
• "Parameters of INFL: English Aspect and Spanish Tense" (handout, 2003) (.pdf file)
• (with Daniel Currie Hall) "The Syntactic Manifestation of Nominal Feature Geometry" (2002) (.pdf file) Proceedings of CLA, published by Cahiers Linguistiques de l'UQAM.
• "Tense, Mood and Aspect: A Feature-Geometric Approach" (2003) (.pdf file)
• "Simplex and Complex Progressives in English and Spanish" (handout, 2003) (.pdf file)
• (with Daniel Currie Hall) "The Role of Register in the Syntax-Morphology Interface" (2003). (.pdf file) Proceedings of CLA, published by Cahiers Linguistiques de l'UQAM.
• "Why dual is less marked than plural" (2003) (.pdf file)
• "Formal Properties of Feature Geometry" (handout, 2003) (.pdf file)
• (with Daniel Currie Hall) "The pieces of π" (2004) Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May 2004. In M.-O. Junker, M. McGinnis, and Y. Roberge, eds. Proceedings of the 2004 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. (.pdf file)
• "Markedness in Morphosyntactic Feature Geometries" (2004) Presented at the Phi Workshop, McGill University. (handout)
• "A Note on Number" (2005) Linguistic Inquiry 36: 441-455.
• "The Geometry of Interpretable Features: Infl in English and Spanish" (2005) Language 81: 10-46.
• (with Daniel Currie Hall) "Argumenthood, pronouns, and nominal feature geometry" (2006) Presented at the "Workshop on Determiners", Winnipeg, November 25, 2006. (handout)
• (with Daniel Currie Hall) "The morphosyntactic manifestations of modality" (2007) Presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Saskatchewan, May 2007. In Radišić, Milica, ed., Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. 11 pages. (.pdf file)
• (with Daniel Currie Hall) "The Hungarian conditional: non-deictic counterfactuality" (2008) Presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 2008. In Jones, Susie, ed. Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.(.pdf file)
• (with Daniel Currie Hall) "Argumenthood, pronouns, and nominal feature geometry" (2009) in J. Ghomeshi, I. Paul, and M. Wiltschko, eds., Determiners: Universals and variation, 97-120. John Benjamins.
• (with Daniel Currie Hall) "Where---and what---is Number?" (2009) Presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 2009. To appear in the Proceedings. (.pdf file)
• (with Daniel Currie Hall) "Aspects of Individuation" (2009) (.pdf file)
• "Auxiliary Verb Insertion" (handout, 2010) (.pdf file)

Courses offered in 2010-11:

• LIN331/1131F: Syntactic Theory
• LIN1233F: Advanced Syntax III
• LIN100Y: Introduction to General Linguistics (second term only)

Courses taught in recent years:

• LGGA99H3F: Linguistic Concepts for Effective Writing
• Advanced Syntax IV
• Advanced Syntax I
• Semantics
• Intermediate Syntactic Theory
• Introductory Syntax
• Introductory Morphology
• Advanced Morphology
• Analysis and Argumentation
• Introduction to Linguistics

Research Interests and Activities:

• Syntax-semantics interface
• Tense and Aspect
• Morphosyntactic features of nominals and clauses
• University of Toronto Syntax Group

Other Interests:

• F-Zero
• University of Toronto Karate Club
• The Dolomites

Where to find me:

Sidney Smith Hall, Room 4083
Department of Linguistics
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Canada
tel: 416-978-1769
fax: 416-971-2688