Vincent Joseph John DeCaen
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Date of Birth:
Marital Status: Married
Citizenship: Canadian
Current Address:
Email: decaen@decaen.ca
Website: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~decaen/
http://www.decaen.ca
Degree and Graduate Studies
Period Institution Discipline Degree (Awarded)
2007-2008 University
of
1997-2007 University
of
1999-2002 University
of
1995-1997 University
of
1991-1995 University
of
1989-1991 University
of
1987-1989 Wilfrid Laurier University Religion & Culture BA (1989)
1985-1989 University
of
Academic and Professional Experience
2005- Toronto Public Library, part-time page
2004- DeCaen + Associates Research and Communications,
president and senior researcher
2001-2003 Friedberg Mercantile, researcher/writer on finance and macroeconomics
2000-2001 Instructor,
2000-2001 Website design and maintenance, Jewish Studies Programme
1999-2003 Professional (copy-)editing and bibliographic assistance
1999 CHASS Internet Publishing (21 hours)
1998-1999 Research
Assistant,
1997-2000 Instructor,
1998 Instructor,
1996 Founding President, Dayfoot Family Co-operative Inc.,
inducted into Campus Cooperative Hall of Fame
(North American Students of Co-operation), 1998
1996 Instructor,
1992-1994 Teaching
Assistant, University of
1992 Research
Assistant,
1992 Convenor/Organizer, NES Departmental Symposium
1991 Assistant Editor, Death and Taxes in the Ancient Near East,
collected papers from NES Departmental Symposium
Academic Awards and Distinctions
1998-1999 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
1997-1998 University
of
1994-1995 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
1991-1994 University
of
1990-1991 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
1989-1990 W.R.
Taylor Scholarship,
Lyle Silver Medal for Near Eastern Studies
1988-1989 Wilfrid Laurier University, Incentive Scholarship
1986 Margaret
Jane Sinden Scholarship, Modern Languages (U
Adam Mickiewicz Memorial Scholarship (Polish Language)
1985-1987 J. S.
McLean Scholarship,
Scholarly Work to Date
*signals peer-reviewed
forthcoming. trans. [from Hebrew] “The
Contribution of the Responsum of Rabbi Moses Provençalo to the History of the Game of Tennis,” by Uriel Simri. [To appear in a volume on the history of tennis together with my
translation of the original responsum.]
*in press (2008). “Theme and Variation in Psalm 111: Phrase and foot in
generative-metrical perspective.” Journal of Semitic Studies.
*in press (2008). Review of The Scope of the
Negative Lo’ in Biblical Hebrew, by F. P. J. Snyman.
Hebrew Studies.
*2005. “On the Distribution of Major
and Minor Pause in Tiberian Hebrew in the Light of
Variants of the Second Person Independent Pronouns.” Journal of Semitic Studies 50.2:
321-327.
*2004. “The Pausal
Phrase in Tiberian Aramaic and the Reflexes of *i.” Journal of Semitic Studies 49.2:
215-224.
*2003. “Moveable Nun
and Instrusive Nun in Biblical Hebrew: The Nature and Distribution of Verbal Nunation in Joel and Job.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 29.1: 121-132.
*2003. “Hebrew Sonority and Tiberian
Contact Anaptyxis: The Case of Verbs primae gutturalis.” Journal of Semitic Studies 48.1: 35-46.
*2003. with Albert Friedberg.
“Dating the Composition of the Book of Esther: Response to
Larson.” Vetus Testamentum 53.3:
427-429.
*2002. Review of Tiberian
Hebrew Phonology: Focussing on Consonant Clusters,
Studia Semitica Neerlandica, by Andries W. Coetzee. Journal of Semitic Studies 47.2:
317-318.
*2001. "Hebrew Linguistics and Biblical
Criticism: A Minimalist Programme". Journal
of Hebrew Scriptures 3 (2000-2001). Republished in Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures (2006), edited by E. Ben Zvi.
*2001. “The Syntactic Argument for
the Waw-Consecutive in Old Aramaic.” Vetus Testamentum
51.3: 381-385.
2000. “Understanding Syllabification in Coptic.” SSEA Symposium. 10 November.
2000. “Toward a Biblical Dialect Geography.” Fourth Annual Graduate Students' Symposium. 24 March. Published in the Proceedings of the Near & Middle Eastern
Civilizations Graduate Students' Annual Symposium (1998-2000).
2000. “Tiberian Cantillation for Dummies.” NMCSA Lectures, 23 February
[with exhaustive bibliography].
2000. “The Invention of Hebrew Tenselessness,
*1999. “A Unified Analysis of Verbal
and Verbless Clauses within Government-Binding
Theory.” Pp. 109-131 in The Verbless
Clause in Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Approaches, edited by Cynthia L.
Miller. Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic,
vol. 1.
1999. “Distinctive Properties of the Biblical Hebrew
Consecutives in Crosslinguistic Perspective: Modal
Coordination in Ancient Egyptian, Fula, Swahili and
Zulu.”
1999. “The Linguistic and Musical Reality behind the Tiberian Hebrew Accents.” Symposium
paper,
1998. “Biblical Hebrew Syntax for the 21st century.”
NMCGSA Symposium, 19 March .
*1997. Review of Tense Systems in European
Languages II, Linguistische Arbeiten, no. 338, edited by Rolf Thieroff. Sprachtypologie
und Universalienforschung 50.2: 182-185.
1997. “The Theory Behind the
Hebrew Syntax Encoding Initiative.” Society of Biblical
Literature (SBL97), Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Section, San Francisco.
*1996. “Ewald and Driver on
Biblical Hebrew ‘Aspect’: Anteriority and the Orientalist
Framework.” Zeitschrift für Althebraistik 9.2:
129-151.
*1996. “Tenseless Languages
in Light of an Aspectual Parameter for Universal Grammar: A Preliminary
Cross-Linguistic Survey.”
1996. “The Special Case of the Verbless
Clause within a General Syntax of Standard Biblical
Hebrew.” Society of Biblical Literature (SBL96), Linguistics
and Biblical Hebrew Section,
1996. “An Autolexical
Approach to Hebrew Compounding.” First Workshop on Multiple Frameworks in
Linguistics,
1995. “Reconsidering the Aspectual Analysis of
Biblical Hebrew.” Society of Biblical Literature (SBL95),
Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Section,
1995. “Where’s the Rest of the Biblical Hebrew Verbal
System?”
1995. “On the Placement and Interpretation of the Verb
in Standard Biblical Hebrew Prose.” Ph.D. diss.,
1992. “Verb Movement, Verb-Two and Biblical Hebrew.”
Colloquium, Department of Near Eastern Studies,
1992. “Maweth and
Directions in Historical Linguistics.” Pp. 17-51 in Death
and Taxes in the Ancient Near East, edited by Sarah E. Orel.
1991. “A Revised Bibliography for the Samalian Dialect of Old Aramaic.” Newsletter for Targumic & Cognate Studies, supplement #6 (December):
1-18.