CURRICULUM VITAE
Degrees
Ph.D. (1986), Linguistics, University of British Columbia
M.A. (1983), Linguistique, Université de Sherbrooke
B.A. (1981), Études françaises, Université de Sherbrooke
Partial List of Publications
Books and Volumes Edited:
Romance
Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition. Edited with Ana Pérez-Leroux.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 388 pages (2003)
Syntaxe et sémantique du français
(with A.-M. Brousseau). Fides: Montréal. 2000. Second printing 2002.
Les clitiques. Guest editor, thematic issue of the Revue québécoise
de linguistique 24.1. (1995)
The Syntactic
Recoverability of Null Arguments. McGill-Queen's University Press: Montréal.
(1990)
La variation
dialectale en grammaire universelle (jointly with Marie-Thérèse
Vinet). Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal: Montréal.
(1989)
Articles :
“Marginal Clitics”, (with N. Bibis) Lingua (to appear)
“Cliticisation et théorie syntaxique, 1971-2001”, (with
D. Heap) Revue québécoise de linguistique 30.1 : 63-90. 2002
“The Syntax and Morphology of Romanian Imperatives”, (with M.
Pirvulescu) in V. Motapanyane (ed.) Comparative Studies in Romanian Syntax.
Elsevier Science: Amsterdam. 2000
"Romanian, Objects and Imperative Constructions", (with M. Pirvulescu)
in J.-M. Authier, B.E. Bullock and L.A. Reed (eds.) Formal Perspectives on
Romance Linguistics. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 1999
"Quaint Agreement and the Theory of Spell-Out", in J. Lema and
E. Treviño (eds.) Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax. John Benjamins,
Amsterdam. 1999
“Preposition Stranding and que-Deletion in Varieties of North American
French”, (with N. Rosen) Linguistics Atlantica 21: 153-168. 1999
"On the Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Systems"(jointly with S.
Carroll), in P. Bhatt and R. Davis (eds.) The Linguistic Brain. Canadian Scholars
Press, Toronto. 1998
"Les prépositions orphelines dans diverses variétés
de français d'Amérique du Nord", in in P. Brasseur (ed.)
Français d'Amérique: variation créolisation, normalisation.
Presses de l'Université d'Avignon. 1998
"Operator-Bound Clitics and Niuean ai", (jointly with D. Massam)
chapter in J. Black and V. Motapanyane (eds.) Clitics, Pronouns and Movement,
pp. 273-299. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. (1997)
(jointly with S. Cummins) "Romance Inflectional Morphology In and Out
of Syntax", in H. Harley and C. Phillips (eds.) The Morphology- Syntax
Connection. MITWPL 22: 53-70. Cambridge: Massachusetts. 1994
Chapitre 3: "Tendances actuelles en syntaxe générative",
in Jean-Luc Nespoulous (ed.) Tendances actuelles en linguistique générale,
pp. 83-107. Delachaux & Niestlé: Neuchâtel. (1993)
"The Role of Feedback in Adult Second Language Acquisition: Error Correction
and Morphological Generalizations"(jointly with S. Carroll and M. Swain),
Applied Psycholinguistics 13:173-198. 1992
"On the Recoverability of Null Objects", in D. Wanner and D.A.
Kibbee (eds.) New Analyses in Romance Linguistics. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
1991
"Preposition Stranding in Prince Edward Island French"(jointly
with R. King), Probus. 2.3:351-369. 1990
"On Recipe Context Null Objects in English"(jointly with D. Massam),
Linguistic Inquiry 20:134-139. 1989
"Predication in Romontsch", Probus 1.2:225-229. 1989
"Subject Doubling, Free Inversion, and Null Argument Languages",
Canadian Journal of Linguistics 31:55-79. 1986
"On Doubling and Null Argument Languages", in Berman et.al., eds,
NELS XVI, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 1986
Recent Papers Presented
| 2004 |
“Licit and illicit null objects in L1 French” (jointly
with M. Pirvulescu)
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 34
University of Utah, Salt Lake City (March)
“The interpretation of Null objects in French” (jointly
with S. Cummins)
Texas Linguistic Society 8
University of Texas, Austin (March) |
| 2003 |
“Les objets nuls licites et illicites en acquisition du français
langue maternelle” (jointly with M. Pirvulescu)
Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics 7
McMaster University, Hamilton (December)
“Null Objects and Topics” (jointly with S. Cummins)
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association
Dalhousie University, Halifax (June)
“Null Objects in French and English” (jointly with S. Cummins).
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 33
Indiana University, (April)
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| 2002 |
“Transitivity Requirement Effects and the EPP”
WECOL 2002
University of British Columbia, Vancouver (November)
“On Certain Subject/Object Asymmetries and the Status of Transitivity”
2nd Conference of the Federation on Natural Language Processing
Venice (October)
“Transitivité syntaxique”
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association
University of Toronto, (June) |
| 2001 |
“Les compléments et le statut de EPP”
Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics 5
University of Western Ontario, London (December)
“On the Verbal Morphology of Romanian” (with M. Pirvulescu)
Balkanica Conference
Concordia University, Montreal (April) |
Recent Invited Lectures
| 2004 |
“A Modular Approach to Transitivity”
Program in Linguistics
University of Western Ontario, London (March) |
| 2003 |
“Transitivity, Grammaticalization, and Change”. Keynote
lecture.
Linguistic Variation in Bilingual Communication, Acquisition and Diachronic
Change Colloquium
University of Hamburg, Germany (October)
“Transitivité verbale, grammaticalisation et sémantisation”.
Keynote lecture. Représentation du sens linguistique conference.
UQAM, Montreal (May)
“Transitivité syntaxique”
Département de langues, linguistique et traduction
Université Laval, Québec (January) |
Graduate Students Supervised (Primary supervision)
Masters students:
| Current |
Completed |
| David Fournier |
Kamal Bains
Ivan Chow
Heather Clark
Michelle DeIrish
Maria Duarte
David Heap
Kristyna Karenova
Karen McCrindle
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Tina de Michele
Helen Owh
Nicole Rosen
Stuart von Wolff
Monica Sanchez
Adriana Scali
Ana Palma dos Santos
Tatiana Schekter
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Doctoral students:
| Current |
Completed |
Kristyna Karenova
Michelle Troberg
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Paul Bessler
Nick Bibis
Sarah Cummins
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Karen McCrindle
Mihaela Pirvulescu |
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