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CURRICULUM VITAE
Feb. 2016
Name: GABRIELA ALBOIU York Address: Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Ross S 541 416-736-2100, ext. 22574 E-mail: galboiu@yorku.ca
Web page: http://www.yorku.ca/galboiu
EDUCATION 2002-2003 Postdoctoral studies in Linguistics, University of Toronto, Canada 1996-2000 Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, University of Manitoba, Canada
o Dissertation title: 'The Features of Movement in Romanian'
1992-1996 ABD in English Linguistics, University of Bucharest, Romania o Dissertation title: 'Word Order and Language Type'
1994-1995 University of Stockholm, Linguistics Department, Sweden
o Visiting researcher
1992-1993 Oxford University, Wolfson College, UK o SOROS Scholar
1992 TESL Certificate, British Council, Bucharest
1989 Bachelor of Arts (Honours); University of Bucharest, Romania o Major: English (literature & linguistics) o Minor: French (literature & linguistics) o Thesis title: 'The Explicit Performative Sentence in English'
CURRENT POSITION 12/2012 Appointed Honorary Member to the Romanian “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest 2008 – present Associate Professor, Linguistics, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
2004 – 06/2008 Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
2004 – present Appointed to the Faculty of Graduate Studies (Linguistics), York University
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PREVIOUS POSITIONS (ACADEMIC: TEACHING)
07/2003-06/2004 Sessional Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
08/2002-07/2003 Instructor, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
07/2001-08/2002 Sessional Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto 04-06/2001 Instructor, Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba
01-04/2001 Instructor in ESL, English Language Centre, University of Manitoba
09-12/2000 Assistant Professor in Linguistics, English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania
09/1995-07/1996 Assistant Professor of Linguistics and ESL, English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania
09/1991-08/1995 Instructor of Linguistics and ESL, English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania
PREVIOUS POSITIONS (ACADEMIC: RESEARCH)
08/2002-07/2003 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
Metcalf Fellow, Victoria College, University of Toronto
04-06/2001 Researcher, ‘Cree Language Project’ (coordinated by Kevin Russell), Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba
01-04/ 1999 Research Assistant, ‘Subjunctive Project’ (coordinated by Jila Ghomeshi), Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba
FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 Merit Pay, Faculty of Arts, York University 2002-2004 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Linguistics, University
of Toronto o project title: ‘Noun Phrase Licensing in Multiple Predicates’ o value: $35,000.00 per year (2003-2004 portion declined)
2003 Nominated for Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Toronto
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2002-2003 Postdoctoral Metcalf Fellow, Victoria College, University of Toronto o value: $3,000.00
2001 Faculty of Arts nominee for University of Manitoba Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Manitoba
1996-2000 University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship o value: Approximately $60,000.00 (over the 4 years)
1996 Clarence Bogardus Sharpe Memorial Scholarship, University of Manitoba o value: $ 5,000.00
1995 Linguistics Society of America Fellowship for 1995 LSA Institute (declined)
1994-1995 Svenska Institutet Research Scholarship, University of Stockholm o research on the morphosyntax of Scandinavian languages o value: Approximately $ 1,000.00 a month o on research leave from the University of Bucharest, Romania
1992-1993 SOROS Research Scholarship, Oxford University o research on Old and Middle English o value: Approximately £700.00 a month o on research leave from the University of Bucharest, Romania
PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
1. Books
2016 with Virginia Hill, Verb Movement and Clause Structure in Old Romanian, Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press. Jan. 2007 with Larisa Avram, Andrei Avram and Daniela Isac, Pitar Mos: A building with a view. Papers in honour of Alexandra
Cornilescu. 648 pages. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press
2002 The Features of Movement in Romanian. 270 pages. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press
2. Chapters in Books (Refereed)
2016 with Virginia Hill, ‘Root Gerunds in Old Romanian.’ In Christina Tortora, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya, and Teresa O’Neill (eds.), Romance Linguistics 2013: Papers selected from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on
Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April 2013, 1-21. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theories (9). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
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2009 ‘Null expletives and Case: The view from Romance.’ In Pascual J. Masullo, Erin O’Rourke, and Chia-Hui Huang (eds), Romance Linguistics 2007. 1-19. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. March. 2007 ‘Moving forward with Romanian Backward Control and Raising.' In Stan Dubinsky and William Davies (eds), Expanding Vistas in the Analysis of Control and Raising. 187-211. Springer, SNLLT Series. Sept.
2006 ‘Are we in Agreement?' In Cedric Boeckx (ed), Agreement Systems. 13-39. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
2004 ‘Optionality at the Interface: triggering Focus in Romanian.' In Henk van
Riemsdijk and Anne Breitbarth (eds), Triggers. 49-75. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
2003 ‘Operator asymmetries in Romanian: syntax and/or phonology?' In A. T. Pérez-Leroux and Y. Roberge (eds), Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition. 3-18. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
2000 with Virginia Motapanyane, ‘The generative approach to Romanian syntax: an overview.' In Virginia Motapanyane (ed.), Comparative Studies in Romanian Syntax. 1-48. Elsevier: Dordrecht
3. Articles in Refereed Journals
to appear with Ruth King, ‘QUITE in Acadian French: A variety of scalar Focus’, Isogloss to appear with Virginia Hill, ‘Evidentiality and Raising to Object as A-bar Movement: A Romanian case study.’ Syntax, accepted 2014. 2016 with Michael Barrie, A Feature Geometric Approach of Verbal Inflection in Onondaga.’ In Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. XVII, 2015 (1),
5-23. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press. February. 2014 with Virginia Hill and Ioanna Sitaridou, ‘Discourse Driven V-to-C in Early Modern Romanian.’ Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 32 (4):
DOI 10.1007/s11049-014-9270-8 (online), Nov; (paper) Nov 2015, 33(4): 1057-1088. 2013 with Virginia Hill, ‘On Romanian Perception Verbs and Evidential Syntax.’
Revue Roumaine de Linguistique LVIII (3): 275-298. 2012 with Virginia Hill, ‘Early Modern Romanian and Wackernagel’s Law.’ SKY Journal of Linguistics 25: 7-29. Finland. http://www.linguistics.fi/julkaisut/sky2012.shtml 2009 with Peter Avery, ‘Argument-Adjunct Asymmetries in Ndebele: The long and the short of it.’ In Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, vol.XI, no. 1,
165-186. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press. October.
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1999 ‘(De)-Focussing and object raising in Romanian.' Canadian Journal of
Linguistics 44(1): 1-22 1997 ‘Relative Clauses in Dakota,’ Revue roumaine de linguistique XLII: 255-275.
Bucharest: Romanian Academy Press 1994 ‘Optimality and subject positions in Germanic.' 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 4. Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings 2013 with Virginia Hill, ‘The Case of A-bar ECM: Evidence from Romanian.’ In Stefan Keine and Shayne Sloggett (eds.), Proceeding of the forty- second annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Volume One.
25-39. Amherst, UMass: GSLA. 2009 with Michael Barrie, ‘Phasehood, Case, and Noun Incorporation.’ In Anisa Schardl, Martin Walkow, and Muhammad Abdurrahman (eds.), Proceedings of the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume One. 25-39. Amherst, UMass: GSLA. Sept. 2004 with Michael Barrie and Chiara Frigeni, ‘SE and the unaccusative- unergative paradox.' In Martine Coene, Gretel de Cuyper, and Yves
D’Hulst (eds), Current Studies in Comparative Romance Linguistics. 109-139. Antwerp Papers in Linguistics 107. Universiteit Antwerp Press
1996 ‘Icelandic revisited.' In Inger Moen, Hanne Gram Simonsen and Helge Lødrup (eds), Papers from the XVth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics.13-24. Oslo: Oslo University Press
5. Articles in Non-Refereed Working Papers, etc. 2010 ‘A-Probes, Case, and (In)Visibility,’ LingBuzz, 85 pages. http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/001163 2004 ‘Shared arguments in Control.' Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 22: 53-74. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
2001 ‘Optionality and the Copy Theory of movement.' In University of Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, II (1): 71-80. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press
1999 ‘Contrastive Focus in Romanian.' In University of Bucharest Working Papers
in Linguistics, I (1). 79-106. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press
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6. Articles in Non-Refereed Conference proceedings
2008 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, 14-28. 2005 with Michael Barrie, ‘Transitivity alternations and root (non)- augmentation in Onondaga.' In Proceedings of Workshop on Structure and
Constituency in Languages of the Americas 10 , edited by Solveiga Armoskaite and James J. Thompson, UBCWPL 17: 1-14 2004 with Michael Barrie and Chiara Frigeni, ‘Derived reflexives in Romance: the case of SE.' In Proceedings from the 2002 CLA Conference. 7-14. UQAM Press 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 ‘Object raising in Romanian.' In Proceedings from the 1998 CLA Conference, Cahiers Lingustique d’Ottawa. 1-11. University of Ottawa Press
7. Book Reviews 1996 Review of The Historical Evolution of the Impersonal Sentence Structure in English by Dr. Florica Bancila. In Annals, Bucharest: Univ. of Bucharest Press Refereed Conferences and Workshops
2016 with Virginia Hill, ‘(Non)Clitic Status of Auxiliaries and A versus A-bar Head Movement,’Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 39, Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Germany, April 5-8. Poster.
2015 with Virginia Hill, ‘The parametric setting for Obligatory Control in Old Romanian,’
Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 48, Leiden University, Holland, Sept. 2-5. 2015 with Virginia Hill, ‘Obligatory Control in Old and Modern Romanian’, The Annual
Conference of the English Department (ACED) 17, English Dept., University of Bucharest, Romania, June 4-6.
2015 with Virginia Hill, ‘Diachronic Change and Economy: The Cycles of Fin in Romanian
OC’, Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) 17, Institute of Linguistics, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, May 28-31.
2015 with Virginia Hill, ‘Obligatory Control in Romanian: The push and pull cycle of Fin’,
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) 45, The University of Campinas, Brazil, May 6-9.
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2015 with Michael Barrie, ‘Aspect, mood and tense in Onondaga: A feature geometric
approach’, Contrast in Syntax workshop, University of Toronto, April 24-25. 2015 with Virginia Hill, ‘Finite Contrasts: Gerunds versus Indicatives in Old Romanian,’
Contrast in Syntax workshop, University of Toronto, April 24-25. Poster 2014 with Ruth King, ‘QUITE an Adverb!’ The Annual Conference of the English
Department (ACED) 16, English Dept., University of Bucharest, Romania, June 5-7.
2014 with Ruth King, ‘Emphatic ‘QUITE’ in Acadian French as Focus Operator’, The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Brock University, May 24-26.
2013 with Virginia Hill, ‘Root Clauses with Gerund Verbs’, International Conference on
Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 21, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, Aug 5-9. 2013 with Virginia Hill, ‘(Non-)Finite Gerunds in Early Modern Romanian’, Diachronic
Generative Syntax (DiGS) 15, Ottawa University, Ottawa, Aug 3-6. Poster 2013 with Virginia Hill, ‘The TAM System of Gerund Clauses in Early Modern Romanian’,
The Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED) 15, English Dept., University of Bucharest, Romania, June 6-7.
2013 with Virginia Hill, ‘Gerunds in Early Modern Romanian’, Linguistic Symposium on
Romance Languages (LSRL) 43, CUNY, New York, April 17-19. 2013 with Virginia Hill, ‘Raising to Object from Finite CPs: Dual A/A-bar and MCC’,
Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 36, Lund University, Sweden, April 3-5. Plenary presentation.
2012 ‘The Level of Verb Movement in Old Romanian Declaratives.’ Romanian: Synchronic
and Diachronic Variation, 12th International Conference, Dept. of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Dec. 14-15. Invited speaker.
2012 with Virginia Hill, ‘Resetting the Focus Parameter in Romanian.’ Syntax of the World’s Languages V, University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Oct. 2012 with Virginia Hill, ‘Romanian Raising to Object as Shift in Evidentiality.’ Conference on The Nature of Evidentiality (TNE 2012). Leiden University, Holland, June. 2012 with Virginia Hill, ‘ECM as both A and A-bar Movement: Evidence from Romanian Evidentials.’ The 14th Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED) 14, University of Bucharest, Romania, May. 2011 with Virginia Hill, ‘The Case of A-Bar ECM: Evidence from Romanian.’ The 42nd
Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 42), University of Toronto, Nov. 2011 with Virginia Hill, ‘Variation in Verb Movement in Old Romanian.’ Symposium on “Variation and Typology: New trends in syntactic research,” Helsinki, Finland, Aug.
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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 with Michael Barrie, ‘Expanding on Aspect in Onondaga.’ The Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Linguistic Association, Concordia University, Montréal, 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 with Michael Barrie, ‘Re-Structuring Aspect in Onondaga.’ The 14th Workshop on
Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 14), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, April.
2009 ‘Feature-ing Silence: On PRO and pro in Romanian.’ The 39th Linguistic Symposium
on Romance Languages (LSRL 39), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, March. 2008 ‘Feature-ing Silence: Contextualizing PRO and pro.’ Workshop on “Strategies of
personal pronoun interpretation in Romanian.” Organized by Alexandra Cornilescu, University of Bucharest, Romania, November. Invited speaker.
2008 with Peter Avery, ‘Ndebele Verbal Morphology and DP Argument-Adjunct
Asymmetries.’ ACAL 39, University of Athens, Georgia, April. 2008 ‘Null expletives and Case values.’ Workshop on “Null subjects, expletives and
locatives in Romance.” Organized by Georg A. Kaiser and Eva-Maria Remberger, University of Konstanz, Germany, March 27-29. Invited speaker.
2008 with Peter Avery, ‘Telicity and DP argument-adjunct asymmetries in Ndebele.’ The
82 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Hilton Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, January. Poster.
2007 with Michael Barrie, ‘Phasehood, Case, and Noun Incorporation.’ The 38th Meeting of
the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 38), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, October. 2007 ‘The Case of PRO.' The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association,
University of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May. 2007 with Michael Barrie. ‘Notes on the (semi)reflexive in Iroquoian.' The 12th Workshop
on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 12), University of Lethbridge, Alberta, March.
2007 ‘Null expletives and Case: the view from Romance.' The 37th Linguistic Symposium
on Romance Languages (LSRL 37), University of Pittsburgh, PA, March. 2006 ‘A-related Edge features.' Interface at the Edge Conference, University of Bucharest,
Romania, June.
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2005 ‘Constraining movement in Romanian Subject Control.' Going Romance 2005,
Utrecht University, The Netherlands, December. 2005 with Michael Barrie. ‘Split Applicative Phrases in Iroquoian: severing the argument
from the event.' The Texas Linguistics Society Conference (TLS 9), University of Texas at Austin, November.
2005 with Michael Barrie. ‘What causes a causative split.' The Fifth Generative Linguistics
in the Old World Asia Conference (V GLOW Asia), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, October.
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, July. Poster.
2005 ‘When CP domains are pro-Case.' The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic
Association, University of Western Ontario, London, May. 2005 with Michael Barrie. ‘Transitivity alternations and root (non)-augmentation in Onondaga.' The 10th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 10), University of Toronto, Toronto, March. 2004 ‘Movement out of Control is under Control.' The Annual Meeting of the Canadian
Linguistic Association, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May. 2003 ‘Interfaces and the OCC asymmetry.' Asymmetry at the Interfaces Conference,
UQAM, Montréal, October. 2003 ‘Are we in Agreement?.' Lisbon Workshop on Agreement, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, July. 2003 ‘Complex predicates and Case: evidence from Romanian.' The Annual Linguistics
Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, June.
2003 ‘The ups and downs of Obligatory Control.' North American Syntax Conference,
Concordia University, Montréal, May. 2002 ‘Optionality at the Interface.' Triggers Workshop, Tilburg University and Cornell
University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, October. 2002 with Michael Barrie. ‘SE and the unaccusative/unergative paradox.' Conference on
Comparative Romance Linguistics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, September.
2002 with Michael Barrie and Chiara Frigeni. ‘Derived reflexives in Romance: the case of
SE.' The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Toronto, Toronto, May.
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2002 ‘Operator asymmetries in Romanian: syntax and/or phonology?' The 32nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 32), University of Toronto, Toronto, April.
2001 ‘Spec,TP reconsidered: an alternative scopal position for Wh-phrases.' The Annual
Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Laval University, Québec City, May. 2001 ‘The features of movement in Romanian.' The ACME Balkanica Conference,
Concordia University, Montréal, April. 1999 ‘Contrastive Focus and sentence-initial operators.' The Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Sherbrooke, Québec, June. 1998 ‘Object raising in Romanian.' The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic
Association, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, May. 1995 ‘Icelandic revisited.' The XVth Scandinavian Conference in Linguistics, University of
Oslo, Norway, January.
Non-refereed Conferences and Workshops
2015 panel discussant: Roundtable on A Reference Grammar of Romanian II: The verb cluster. University of Bucharest, Sept 7.
2005 with Michael Barrie. ‘Reflecting on reflexive complexity.' 9th Bilingual Workshop in
Theoretical Linguistics (BWTL 9), University of Western Ontario, December. 2004 ‘Tense domains and cross-linguistic variation in occurrence of lexical subjects.' 8th
Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics (BWTL 8), York University, December.
2003 ‘On edge: complex predicates, phi-features, temporal deixis and Case.' Workshop on
Complex Predicates, University of Toronto, January. 2001 ‘Operator asymmetries.' 5th Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics (BWTL
5), University of Western Ontario, London, ON, December. 1995 ‘Optimality and subject positions in Germanic.' The Annual Linguistics Conference of
the English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania, June. 1994 ‘Word order and functional categories in Germanic.' The Annual Linguistics
Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania, June. 1994 ‘Typology and word order in English and Germanic languages.' The National
Conference for British and American Studies I, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania.
1991 ‘The explicit performative sentence.' The Pragma-Linguistics and Grammar Conference, University of Bucharest, Romania.
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Invited Talks and Presentations 2013 ‘A-Bar Movement with Case Effects: Indirect evidentiality in Romanian’, Concordia
University, Montreal, Nov. 1, 2013. 2013 ‘The History of English,’ Seminar delivered at YUELI, York University, July 2. 2012 ‘The History of English,’ Seminar delivered at YUELI, York University, Aug. 2. 2012 ‘High and Low Verb Movement in Early Modern Romanian Declarative and
Interrogative Clauses.’ Main Hall, Taylorian, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, May 25. 2012 ‘The Dual A/A-bar Nature of Discourse Triggered Raising-to-Object: Evidence from
Romanian.’ Queen’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, May 22. 2009 ‘Feature Inheritance, Structural Case Values, and Silent Categories: With a focus on
PRO.’ Syntax/Semantics Research Group, University of Toronto, Oct. 16. 2008 ‘On Silent Categories and Case.’ Syntax Brown Bag, New York University, Oct. 24. 2007 ‘Inherited Features and Cases of PRO.’ Concordia Symposium on Generative
Grammar, Concordia University, Montréal, September. 2007 ‘Syntax and CogSci,’ Cognitive Science at York: New people and the future. Event
organized by Robert J. Drummond, Dean, Faculty of Arts, and Judith Pelham, Chair, Department of Philosophy, May.
2006 with Michael Barrie. ‘Predication and morphological causatives in Onondaga.'
Linguistics Colloquium, University at Buffalo, New York, November. 2006 ‘The Case of Phase.' Linguistics Colloquium, Syracuse University, New York, October. 2005 ‘Lexical subjects, Phases and pro.' Syntax Project Group, University of Toronto,
February. 2003 'To move or not to move?' DLLL, York University, November. 2003 ‘Shared arguments in Control.' DLLL, York University, May. 2003 ‘To move or not to move?' Syntax Project Group, University of Toronto, April. 2003 ‘The syntax-pragmatics interface.' English Department, Universtiy of Michigan-Flint,
February. 2002 ‘The ups and downs of Control.' Syntax Project Group, University of Toronto,
November. 2002 with Mike Barrie and Chiara Frigeni. ‘SE in Romance: selfish or selfless?.' Syntax
Project Group, University of Toronto, May.
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2001 ‘When syntax cares about PF and vice-versa: Romanian operators and their inconsistencies.' Syntax Project Group, University of Toronto, November.
2000 ‘Operator movement in natural languages.' English Department, University of
Bucharest, Romania, November. 1999 ‘Focus dependencies: evidence from Romanian.' Research Group in Linguistics,
Queen’s University, October. 1999 ‘Romanian WH-phrases revisited.' Syntax Project Group, University of Toronto,
October. 1999 ‘WH-phrases in Romanian.' Linguistics Colloquium series, University of Manitoba,
October. 1998 ‘On Focus type in Romanian.' Linguistics Colloquium series, University of Manitoba,
November. 1994 ‘Expletive structures in Germanic.' Department of Linguistics, University of Stockholm, November. 1993 ‘Linguistic diversity in contemporary Romania.' School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol University, UK 1993 ‘Word order in Romanian.' Romance Linguistics Seminar, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford
University.
WORK IN PROGRESS
� ‘Finite Complement Clauses’, with Maura Cotfas and Dana Niculescu. Chapter 11 of A Reference Grammar of Romanian II: The verb cluster, edited by Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS, Paris) & Ion Giurgea (The "Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti" Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest). In progress.
� ‘Case, Under-Inheritance, and Silent Categories.’ In progress
GRANTS
2015 (August) International Conference Travel Fund, LA&PS, York U (value: $1,000)
2015 (March) SSHRC Conference Travel Grant, York University (value $809.89)
2013 (March) SSHRC Conference Travel Grant, York University (value $680)
2012 (August) International Conference Travel Fund, LA&PS, York U (value: $1,000)
2012 (May) SSHRC Conference Travel Grant, York University (value $800)
2011 (March) SSHRC standard research grant (co-applicant): o project title: ‘Cross-linguistic variation in noun incorporation and
denominalization’ o principal applicant: Eric Mathieu, University of Ottawa o value: $ 168,761.00
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2011 (January) YUFA Teaching-Learning Development Grant:
o together with Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Kristin Andrews, Verena Gottschling
o project title: ‘Development of Cognitive Science Program’ o value: $ 2,904.00
2010 (February) SSHRC Conference Travel Grant, York University (value $700)
2008 (March) SSHRC Conference Travel Grant, York University (value $750)
2007 (May) Faculty of Arts Research Grant, York University: o together with Peter Avery o project title: ‘A Comparison of Bantu and Iroquoian Verbal Morphology and the Licensing of Noun Phrases’ o value: $ 2,499.99
2007 (April) York Ad Hoc Fund, Travel Award, York University (value $315)
2005, 2006 SSHRC Conference Travel Grant, York University 2005 Faculty of Arts Research Grant, York University;
o project title: ‘The Structure of Northern Iroquoian Languages’ o value: $ 4,485.74
2000 Faculty of Graduate Studies Travel Award, University of Manitoba, (value: $300.00)
1999 Canadian Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities Traveling Scholarship,
University of Manitoba (value: $600.00)
1998 Faculty of Arts Conference Travel Award, University of Manitoba ($400)
1996 SOROS Travel Grant, Romania (value: $1,400.00)
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROFESSION
Workshops and Conferences
2018 Local organizer, Linguistic Symposium of Romance Languages 2015 Session Chair, The Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED) 17, English Dept., University of Bucharest, Romania, June 4. 2014 Session Chair, The Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED) 16, English Dept., University of Bucharest, Romania, June 5. 2013 Session Chair, The Annual Conference of the English Department (ACED) 15, English Dept., University of Bucharest, Romania, June 6. 2010 Adjudicator, Best Student Paper and Poster Contest, The Annual Meeting of the CLA-ACL, Concordia University, Montréal, May 29-31
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2006 Organizer of the Best Student Paper Contest, The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, York University, Toronto, ON, May 27-30 2006 with Peter Avery. Local co-organizer, The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, York University, Toronto, ON, May 27-30 2005 Adjudicator, Best Student Paper Contest, The Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Linguistic Association Conference, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, May 28-31
2004 with James Walker. Co-organizer, 8th Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, York University, DLLL, December 8 2003 Workshop organizer: Complex Predicates. Deptartment of Linguistics, University of Toronto, January 31 2001- present Chair and/or moderator: The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (various), 6th Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 15, North East Linguistic Society
Conference 38, ACED 14 (Bucharest 2012), ACED 15 (Bucharest 2013) Offices in Professional Organizations
2005-2007 Member at large, Executive Committee, Canadian Linguistic Association REVIEWING: Manuscripts for Journals and Scholarly Presses; Grants; Conference Abstracts
2015 (Dec) Abstract reviewer for Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages 46
2015 (Aug.) Abstract reviewer for North East Linguistic Society 46
2015 (Feb) Article review for The Linguistic Review, ed. by Evelyn Gandón-Chapela and Javier Pérez-Guerra
2014 (Dec) Abstract reviewer for Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages 45
2014 (Nov) Abstract reviewer for West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 33
2014 (Sept) Book chapter review for Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII, edited by
Eric Potsdam, John Benjamins. 2014 (Aug) Abstract reviewer for North East Linguistic Society 46
2014 (June) Book chapter reviewer for Proceedings to Going Romance 27, edited by Petra Sleeman et al.
2014 (April) Article review for Lingua
2014 (Jan) Abstract reviewer for Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages 44
2013 (Dec) Article review for Lingua
2013 (July) Abstract reviewer for Going Romance 27
2013 (May) Article review for Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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2013 (March) Chapter reviewer for A Reference Grammar of Romanian, volume 1, eds. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea 2013 (Jan) Abstract reviewer for Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages 43 2012 (June, Dec) Article review for Journal of Historical Syntax 2012 (Feb) Book chapter reviewer for Proceedings to LSRL 41, edited by Marie-Hélène Cöté, Eric Mathieu and Shana Poplack, John Benjamins 2012 (Feb) Abstract reviewer for Chicago Linguistics Society 48
2012 (Jan) Abstract reviewer for Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages 42
2011 (July) Book chapter reviewer for Romance Languages and Linguistics Theory 2010, edited by Irene Franco, Sara Lusini & Andrés Saab
2011 (July) Abstract reviewer for North East Linguistic Society 42
2011 (Feb.) Book chapter reviewer for The End of Argument Structure? edited by Cristina Cuervo and Yves Roberge
2011 (Jan.) Abstract reviewer for Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages 41
2010 (Jan.) Reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant Competition 2009 (Oct.) Article reviewer for Syntax
2009 (Aug.) Abstract reviewer for North East Linguistic Society 40
2009 (July) Article reviewer for Syntax
2009 (March) Article reviewer for Probus
2009 (Feb.) Abstract reviewer for Chicago Linguistic Society 45
2008 (Aug.) Abstract reviewer for North East Linguistic Society 39
2007 (Aug.) Abstract reviewer for North East Linguistic Society 38
2007 (Aug.) Book chapter reviewer: Proceedings to Going Romance 37, John Benjamins
2007 (June) Grant proposal reviewer for France’s National Research Agency / Agence Nationale de la Recherce ANR (AAP ‘Blanc’ project)
2007 (May) Article reviewer for Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics
2006 (Oct.) Book chapter reviewer for Proceedings of Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages 36, John Benjamins
2006 (July) Book chapter reviewer for Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Slavic Syntax (FASL) 15 2004, 2005 Article reviewer for Canadian Journal of Linguistics
2002 Article reviewer for Revue québécoise de linguistique
2001 Abstract reviewer for Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages 31
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2001, 2002 Article reviewer for Linguistic Inquiry squibs
Membership in Professional Societies
2015-2017 Member of Societas Linguistica Europaea
2008 -2013 Member of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
1996 - Member of the Canadian Linguistic Association
1995 -2013 Member of the Linguistic Society of America
1994 - Member of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
TEACHING
York University, DLLL
LING 1000 Introduction to Linguistics: 2003-04 (undergraduate)
LING 2130 Fundamentals of Morphological Analysis: fall: 2005, 2006 (undergraduate)
LING 2140 Fundamentals of Grammatical Analysis: 2004 fall, winter: 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014 (undergrad)
LING 3140 Syntax: winter: 2004, 2005
fall: 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 summer: 2013 (undergraduate)
LING 3150 Semantics: fall: 2003, 2014 winter: 2013 (undergraduate)
LING4140/LAL5140 Advanced Syntax: fall: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
winter: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 (undergraduate/graduate)
LING4150/LAL5150 Topics in the Syntax-Semantics Interface: 2008, 2015 winter,
2012 fall (undergrad/graduate)
LING 4900 Analysis and Argumentation: 2007 winter (undergraduate)
LING 4900 Current Approaches to Case in Minimalism: 2009 winter (undergrad.)
LING/LAL6140 Grammatical Analysis : winter: 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012 fall: 2011, 2013, 2014
(graduate)
LING 6900 Syntactic Typology and Language Universals: 2010 winter (graduate)
LING 6900 Syntax: A Minimalist approach 2010 fall (graduate)
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LAL 6900 Syntactic Interfaces 2013 fall (graduate)
LAL 6900 Introductory Semantics 2014 fall (graduate)
LAL 6900 Syntactic Analysis and Argumentation 2015 fall (graduate)
LAL 6900 Cross-linguistic Issues in Control and Raising 2015 winter (graduate)
The University of Toronto, Linguistics (2001-2003)
LIN 481/1181 Introduction to Analysis and Argumentation (undergraduate/graduate)
LIN 1231 Advanced Syntax: Minimalist issues: Chomsky 1995 - 2001 (graduate)
LIN 1232 Advanced Syntax: Complex Predicates (graduate)
LIN 100 Introduction to Linguistics (undergraduate)
LIN 331/1131 Introduction to Syntactic Theory (undergraduate/graduate)
LIN 203 English Words Through Time and Space (undergraduate)
Reading course Topic and Focus
Reading course Generative Syntax: From GB to Minimalism (with Elizabeth Cowper)
The University of Manitoba (2001)
Linguistics Department: Syntax 220 (undergraduate)
English Language Centre: Academic Writing: Grammar Review and Practice Academic Writing: Research Writing for Graduate Students
The University of Bucharest, English Department (1991–1996, 2000)
2000: Minimalism and Theoretical Syntax (graduate)
Focus Constructions in Natural Languages (graduate)
Diachronic Syntax (graduate)
The Syntax-Semantics Interface (graduate)
1991-1996 English Syntax (undergraduate)
Introduction to Government and Binding (undergraduate)
Comparative Germanic Syntax (undergraduate)
History of English (undergraduate)
English Morphology (undergraduate)
Various courses in English as a Second Language (undergraduate)
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GRADUATE STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
Supervision:
2014-: PhD supervisor: Gavin Bembridge, LAL-DLLL, York University 2013-2014: MRP supervisor: Gavin Bembridge, ‘Cleft Constructions in Scottish Gaelic’
LAL-DLLL, York University 2012-: PhD supervisor: Amer Ahmed, LAL-DLLL, York University 2010-2011 MRP supervisor: Amer Ahmed, ‘The Movement Theory of Control in Iraqi Arabic: A case for PRO or pro?’ MATAL-DLLL, York University 2010-2016: PhD supervisor: Iryna Lenchuk, LAL-DLLL, York University 2009-2010 MRP supervisor: Taeyoul Kim, ‘The Korean Nominal Structure and Default
Case,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University 2007-2010 MRP co-supervisor (with Ruth King): Daryl Chow, 'Singlish can say what?: A
study of wh-in-situ in Singaporean English,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University 2007-2008 MRP supervisor: Man (Victoria) Cheng, ‘Classifiers: A comparative study of
Cantonese and Mandarin,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University 2007-2008 MRP supervisor: Laura Kisielyte, ‘On Argument Structure in Ndebele:
Applicatives High and Low,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University 2007-2008 MRP supervisor: Sebastien Plante, 'Semantic Roles and Argument Structure:
An overview,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University 2005-2006 MRP supervisor: Milica Radisic, ‘Subject Raising and Obligatory Subject
Control in Serbian,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University 2004-2005 MRP supervisor: Masaaki Urano, ‘Japanese Particles and Syntactic Representation,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University 2004-2005 MRP supervisor: Maia Sakvarelidze, ‘Properties of the Russian Reflexive Morpheme SJA,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University 2001-2002 Supervisor, MA Forum paper: Keir Moulton, ‘Clausal Modification in Old
English: The Case of the Correlative,’ University of Toronto
1995-1996 Supervisor, MA thesis: Nicoleta Baciu, ‘Optimality and Verb-Second in Germanic,’ English Department, University of Bucharest
Committee Member:
a. Doctoral theses
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2012 Member, Doctoral Dissertation Examination committee: Maura Cotfas, ‘On the Syntax of the Romanian Subjunctive: Control and Obviation’ University of Bucharest, Romania. Sept. 13.
2007-2011 Member, Doctoral Dissertation committee: Philip Comeau, ‘A Window on the
Past, A Move Toward the Future: Sociolinguistic and formal perspectives on variation and change in Acadian French,’ DLLL, York University
2006 External examiner, Doctoral Dissertation committee: Mona Luiza
Ungureanu, ‘DP-internal structure and movement in Romanian,’ Department of Linguistics, McGill University
2006 Member, Doctoral Dissertation defense committee: Michael Barrie, ‘Dynamic
Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation,’ Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
2004 Member, Doctoral Dissertation defense committee: Milan Rezac, ‘Elements of Cyclic Syntax: Agree and Merge,’ Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
b. Master’s theses
2011 Outside Member, Master’s Thesis defense committee: Ameeta Agrawal, ‘Context Sensitive Emotion Detection from Text Using Semantic and Syntactic Relations,’ Computer Science and Engineering, York University
2006-08 Member, Master’s thesis committee: Ross Sweeney, ‘The Lexical and
Conceptual Structure of Natural Kind Categories,’ Department of Philosophy, York University
2003 Outside Member, Master’s Thesis defense committee: Darius Antia,
‘Semantic Analysis of Pict in Java,’ Computer Science, York University
c. Major Research Papers / Forum Papers
2011 MRP 2nd reader: Sean Meades, ‘Evaluating the Aboriginal Language Initiative in Ontario’ MATAL-DLLL, York University
2006 MRP 2nd reader: Emily Mayberry, ‘English Language Spread in the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University 2002 Member, MA Forum committee: Raphael Mercado, ‘Verb Raising and
Restructuring in Tagalog,’ Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
d. Generals Papers (Syntax and Semantics)
2005 Member, Syntax Generals Paper committee: Sara MacKenzie, ‘Serial Verb Constructions,’ Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
2003 Member, Syntax Generals Paper committee: Magda Goledzinowska,
‘Syntactic Transitivity of SE-reflexives in Polish,’ Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
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2002 Member, Semantics Generals Paper committee: Milan Rezac, ‘An E-Type
Analysis of Variables in Weak Islands: Anaphoric definite descriptions,’ Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
2002 Member, Syntax Generals Paper committee: Suzanne Belanger, ‘A Derivational Relationship: The Subject-Infinitive Alternation in French,’ Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
2002 Member, Syntax Generals Paper committee: Nicole Rosen, ‘On Demonstratives and Michif,’ Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
2001 Member, Syntax Generals Paper committee: Kristin Phan, ‘Not so bare after all: Observations on the Cantonese nominal phrase,’ Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
York University
� Departmental Level
2015-2017 Director, Undergraduate Program in Linguistics
2015-2016 Coordinator, TESOL Certificate
2013-2015 Coordinator, Lecture Series in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
2013 Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee
Jan 2013 Member, Hiring Committee: tenure-stream position, Psycholinguistics
2010-2011 Coordinator, TESOL Certificate
Jan 2009-Dec 2011 Director, Undergraduate Program in Linguistics
2007-2008 Coordinator (with Linda Steinman), Lecture Series in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
2007 Member, Hiring Committee: tenure-stream position, Sociolinguistics
2006-2007 Coordinator (with Elissa Flagg), Lecture Series in Linguistics
2006-2007 Member, Chair Search Committee
2006-2007 Member, Executive Committee
2006 Member, Hiring Committee: tenure-stream position, Phonetic Variation
2003-2006 Coordinator, Lecture Series in Linguistics
2005 Collegial referee for Tenure and Promotion Committee: observed a class and wrote a letter for Marina Frescura’s Promotion file
2005 Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee: prepared teaching section for James Walker’s Tenure and Promotion File
2005 Member, Hiring Committee: CLA in Portuguese
2005 Member, Hiring Committee: CLA, Psycholinguistics & Language Acquisition
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2004-2006 Theoretical stream representative, MATAL Executive Committee
2004 Hiring Committee: CLA in Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition
2003, 2004, 2006 Scholarship adjudication committee, MATAL
� Faculty Level
2006-2008 Member, Petitions Committee, Faculty of Arts
� Workshops
2009 Session Chair, 6th MATAL Graduate Student Forum in Linguistics, DLLL, May 21 2007 Workshop co-organizer (with Linda Steinman and Elissa Flagg), 4th MATAL Graduate Student Forum in Linguistics, DLLL, April 25 2006 Workshop co-organizer (with Brian Morgan), 3rd MATAL Graduate Student Forum in Linguistics, DLLL, April 27 2005 Workshop co-organizer (with Brian Morgan), 2nd MATAL Graduate Student Forum in Linguistics, DLLL, April 21 2004 Workshop co-organizer (with Brian Morgan), MATAL Graduate Student Forum in Linguistics, DLLL, April 27
University of Toronto
2005-2006 Associate Member, Graduate Faculty
2001-2003 Member, Guest Lecture Committee, Department of Linguistics
2001-2003 Member, Graduate Faculty
2002-2003 Member, Language Acquisition Group
2001-2003 Member, Syntax Project Group
The University of Manitoba
1998 Member, Hiring Committee: tenure-stream position, Syntax, Linguistics Department
The University of Bucharest
1991-1996 Member, Student Admissions Committee, English Department
2000 – present Member, Editorial Board, Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
COMMUNITY SERVICE 2004 – present Linguistic consultant: Onondaga Learning Centre, Ohsweken (Six Nations Reserve), ON