Elizabeth Cowper

Department of Linguistics
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street, #4073
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3

myfirstname dot mylastname at utoronto dot ca

Full CV available upon request

Degrees

1976	Ph.D. (Linguistics) Brown University, Providence, R.I.
1974	A.M. (Linguistics) Brown University, Providence, R.I.
1972	B.A. (honours) French Language and Literature, McGill University, Montréal, Québec.
1971	Diplôme de Langue et Lettres Françaises, Faculté des Lettres, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France

Academic Positions

2014-	Professor Emeritus, Linguistics, University of Toronto
2004‑2014	Professor, Linguistics, University of Toronto
1981‑2004	Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Toronto
1976‑1981	Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Toronto
1973‑1976	Teaching Assistant in Linguistics, Brown University
1974, 1975	(summer) Instructor of English as a Second Language, Brown University
1973	(summer) Instructor of French as a Second Language, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa.

Major Administrative and Governance Positions

Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Linguistics
Associate Chair, Department of Linguistics
Graduate Coordinator, Department of Linguistics
Chair, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Acting Vice-Principal (Academic) and Dean, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Interim Vice-Principal (Academic Resources), University of Toronto at Scarborough
Associate Dean, Division I, School of Graduate Studies
Vice-Dean (Programs), School of Graduate Studies
Governor, University of Toronto
Chair, Planning and Budget Committee, University of Toronto

Professional Affiliations and Activities

Member, Canadian Linguistic Association, Linguistic Society of America, GLOW, Societas Linguistica Europaea
Continuing Senior Fellow, Massey College
Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College, University of Toronto
Member, Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Linguistics (2019-2022)
Editor, Canadian Journal of Linguistics (2016-2019)
Co-Editor, Canadian Journal of Linguistics (2013-2016)
Member, Associate Editorial Board, Linguistic Inquiry (2002-2005)
Co-Editor, Squibs & Discussion, Linguistic Inquiry (1999-2002)
Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Linguistics (1991-1996)

Awards

French Government Medal of Excellence in French Language and Literature, McGill University, 1972
Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award, University of Toronto, 2014
Arbor Award, University of Toronto, 2018
National Achievement Award, Canadian Linguistic Association, 2022

Research

Areas of interest

Syntactic theory, the interaction of syntax and morphology, universal grammar, functional categories, morphosyntactic features, syntactic change, tense and aspect, the syntax and semantics of verbal and nominal inflection, distributed morphology

Research Grants

2023‑28	(coinvestigator with D. Siddiqi, B. Bjorkman, and D. C. Hall), SSHRC Insight Grant: “Feature interactions in complex paradigms: Competition and upstaging.” ($172,752.00)
2020‑22	(coinvestigator with D. Siddiqi, B. Bjorkman, and D. C. Hall), SSHRC Insight Development Grant: “What matters most: Feature competition and morphological upstaging in complex paradigms.” ($45,648.00)
2019‑22	SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals, Canadian Journal of Linguistics. ($88,200.00)
2015‑18	SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals, Canadian Journal of Linguistics. ($72,000.00)
1997‑00	(coinvestigator with D. Massam and A. Johns) SSHRC Standard Research Grant: “A cross-linguistic study of verbal systems.” ($84,000.00)
1994‑97	(collaborator with R. Smyth), SSHRC Standard Research Grant #410-94-1638: “Acquisition and processing of anaphora, control and agreement.” ($72,000.00)
1994‑97	(coinvestigator with D. Massam), SSHRC Standard Research Grant #410-94-1093: “Grammatical morphemes: Their function and effect.” ($79,000.00)
1991‑94	(with D. Massam) SSHRC Standard Research Grant: “Conceptual structure and its role in syntax.” ($170,498.00)
1989‑90	SSHRCC Grant-In Aid, University of Toronto: “The syntax and semantics of auxiliary verbs in Bengali.” ($525.00)
1989‑91	(with D. Massam) SSHRCC Standard Research Grant: “Thematic relations in the lexicon and in syntax.” ($52,878.00)
1984‑85	(with K. Rice) University of Toronto grant for research into the grammar of Mende.
1981‑82	(with K. Rice, J.K. Chambers and C. Yorio) University of Toronto grant to support the activities of the Toronto Working Group on Language Universals.
1980‑81	(with K. Rice) University of Toronto grant to support the activities of the Toronto Working Group on Language Universals.

Refereed Publications

2022	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Morphosemantic features in Universal Grammar: What we can learn from Marshallese pronouns and demonstratives. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 67(3): 242‑266.
2021	Cowper, E., and V. DeCaen. A unified account of the Infinitive Absolute in Biblical Hebrew. In Linguistic studies on Biblical Hebrew, ed. R. D. Holmstedt, 103‑124. Leiden: Brill.
2021	Cowper, E., D. C. Hall, B. Bjorkman, R. Tollan, and N. Banerjee. Investigating the past of the futurate present. in Syntactic features and the limits of syntactic change, ed. Þórhallur Eyþórsson and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson, 210‑237. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2020	Konnelly, L., and E. Cowper. Gender diversity and morphosyntax: An account of singular they. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 5(1), 40.
2019	Cowper, E., B. Bjorkman, D. C. Hall, R. Tollan, and N. Banerjee. Illusions of transitive expletives in Middle English. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 22(3): 211‑246.
2019	Bjorkman, B., E. Cowper, D. C. Hall, and A. Peters. Person and deixis in Heiltsuk pronouns. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 64(4): 574‑591.
2019	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Scope variation in contrastive hierarchies of morphosyntactic features. In Variable properties in language: Their nature and acquisition, ed. D. W. Lightfoot and J. Havenhill: 27‑41. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
2017	Cowper, E., and V. DeCaen. Biblical Hebrew: A formal perspective on the left periphery. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 38: 33 pp.
2017	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. The rise of contrastive modality in English. Linguistic Variation 17(1): 67‑96.
2016	Cowper, E. Affected-topic have: An applicative account. Linguistica Atlantica 35(1): 1‑22.
2016	Cowper, E. Finiteness and Pseudofiniteness. In Finiteness Matters: On finiteness related phenomena in natural languages, ed. Kristin Melum Eide: 47‑77. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2016	Bjorkman, B., and E. Cowper. Possession and necessity: From individuals to worlds. Lingua 182: 30‑48.
2015	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Reductiō ad discrīmen: Where features come from. Nordlyd 41(2): 145‑164.
2014	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. The features and exponence of nominal number. Lingue e Linguaggio 13(1): 63‑82.
2012	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Aspects of individuation. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ed. D. Massam: 27‑53. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2009	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Argumenthood, pronouns, and nominal feature Geometry. In Determiners: Variation and universals, ed. J. Ghomeshi, I. Paul, and M. Wiltschko: 97‑120. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2005	Cowper, E. A note on number. Linguistic Inquiry. 36(3): 441‑455.
2005	Cowper, E. The geometry of interpretable features: Infl in English and Spanish. Language 81(1): 10‑46.
1999	Cowper, E. Grammatical aspect in English. The Linguistic Review, 16(3): 205‑226.
1998	Cowper, E. The simple present tense in English: A unified treatment. Studia Linguistica 52(1): 1‑18.
1997	Cowper, E. The complexities of the English simple present. Winnipeg: Voices of Rupert’s Land.
1995	Cowper, E. English participle constructions. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 40(1): 1‑38.
1994	Cowper, E. A Concise Introduction to Syntactic Theory (Korean translation). Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company.
1993	Cowper, E. Infinitival complements of have. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 37(2): 115‑135.
1992	Cowper, E. A Concise Introduction to Syntactic Theory: The Government-Binding Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1992	Cowper, E., and K. Rice. The status of hu and maa in Mende. In Current Issues in African Linguistics, ed. D. Odden, vol. 4: 123‑135. Foris, Dordrecht.
1987	Cowper, E. Pied piping, feature percolation and the structure of the noun phrase. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 32(4): 321‑338.
1987	Cowper, E., and K. Rice. Are phonosyntactic rules necessary? Phonology Yearbook 4: 185‑194.
1985	Conteh, P., E. Cowper, and K. Rice. The environment for consonant mutation in Mende. In Current Issues in African Linguistics, ed. G. Dimmendaal, vol. 3: 107‑116. Foris, Dordrecht.
1984	Cowper, E., and K. Rice. The destruction of tonal structure in Mende. In Studies in African Linguistics, ed. R. Schuh, Supplement 9: 57‑62. Department of Linguistics and African Studies Center, UCLA.
1983	Conteh, P., E. Cowper, D. James, K. Rice, and M. Szamosi. A reanalysis of tone in Mende. In Current Issues in African Linguistics, ed. J. D. Kaye and A. Dugas, vol. 2: 127‑137. Dordrecht: Foris.
1979	Cowper, E., and H. Kimura. Missing NPs in Japanese. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 24(1): 41‑47.
1976	Kučera, H. and E. Cowper. Functional sentence perspective revisited. In Sound, Sign and Meaning: Quinquagenary of the Prague Linguistic Circle, ed. L. Matějka: 191‑230. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Reviews

2006	Cowper, E. Review of Adjectives, number and interfaces: Why languages vary, by Denis Bouchard. Language 82(4): 884‑887.
1998	Cowper, E. Take the wide view: Review of The Architecture of the Language Faculty, by Ray Jackendoff. GLOT International, 3(8): 21‑24.
1994	Cowper, E. Review of The Chomskyan Turn, by Asa Kasher. Language Quarterly 31: 274‑281.
1982	Cowper, E. Review of Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English, by D.M. Perlmutter and S. Soames. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 27(1): 72‑73.

Other Publications

2022	Bjorkman, B.M. , E. Cowper, D. C. Hall, J. Hinds, L. Koren, and D. Siddiqi. Morphological Upstaging and 'Markedness'. Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2015	Bjorkman, B., and E. Cowper. Where there is, and why. Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2015	Cowper, E., D. C. Hall, B. Bjorkman, R. Tollan, and N. Banerjee. There’s no future in Old English. Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2014	Bjorkman, B., and E. Cowper. English modal have. Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2013	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. English modals: Evidence for a neoparametric theory of phrase structure. Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2013	Bjorkman, B., and E. Cowper. Inflectional shells and the syntax of causative have. Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Canadian Linguistic Association.
2013	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Syntactic change and the cartography of syntactic structures. Proceedings of NELS 42.
2013	Cowper, E. The rise of featural modality in English. Proceedings of the 36th meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association.
2012	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Both ends against the middle: Features of Voice in English, Greek, and Hebrew. Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2011	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Four puzzles, one solution: The development of the passive Voice head in English. Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2011	Cowper, E. Flavours of v_GO: Auxiliaries of motion in Brazilian Portuguese. Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Canadian Linguistic Association.
2010	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Structures for possession in Upper Sorbian and Czech. Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Canadian Linguistic Association.
2010	Cowper, E. Where auxiliary verbs come from. Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2009	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Where—and what—is number? Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2008	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. The Hungarian conditional: non-deictic counterfactuality. Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2007	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. The morphosyntactic manifestation of modality. Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2005	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. The pieces of π. Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Canadian Linguistic Association.
2004	Cowper, E. Why dual is less marked than plural. Proceedings of NELS 34. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. GLSA Publications.
2003	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. The role of register in the syntax-morphology interface. Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Montréal: Cahiers Linguistiques de l’UQAM.
2002	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. The syntactic manifestation of nominal feature geometry. Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Montréal: Cahiers Linguistiques de l’UQAM.
2001	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Overriding the phase. Proceedings of the 2001 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association: 13‑23. Ottawa: Cahiers Linguistiques d’Ottawa.
2000	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. Intransitive and: Locality, movement and interpretation. Proceedings of the 2000 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association: 25‑36. Ottawa: Cahiers Linguistiques d’Ottawa.
1999	Cowper, E. Feature geometry and verbal inflection. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 17: 79‑96, ed. C. Smallwood and S. Béjar.
1997	Cowper, E. Irrealis in English. Proceedings of the 1997 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, ed. L. Blair, C. Burns, and L. Rowsell: 25‑36.
1996	Cowper, E. Sequence of tense and the binding theory. Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, ed. E. Pasquini, L. Rowsell and L.C. Smith: 69‑80.
1996	Cowper, E. The features of tense in English. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 14(2): 19‑39, ed. P. Koskinen.
1995	Cowper, E. A unified account of Hungarian va/ve participle constructions. Proceedings of the 1995 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association: 85‑95. Toronto: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.
1994	Cowper, E. Intervals and schedules: the English progressive. Proceedings of the 1994 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, ed. P. Koskinen: 107‑118. Toronto: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.
1993	Cowper, E. Syntactic morphology: A third option. Proceedings of ESCOL 1992, Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics.
1993	Cowper, E. A non-unified treatment of -ing. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 12(1): 49‑59, ed. C. Dyck.
1993	Cowper, E. Inner tense and the realization of aspect>. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 7(2): 105‑112.
1992	Cowper, E. The interaction of tense and temporal adverbs in English. Cahiers de Linguistique de l’UQAM 1(1): 3‑22.
1992	Brunson, B., and E. Cowper. On the topic of have. Proceedings of the 1992 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association: 43‑52.
1991	Cowper, E. A Compositional analysis of English tense. Proceedings of the 1991 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association: 53‑64.
1990	Cowper, E. Apparent polysemy and thematic underspecification. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 11(2): 9‑14, ed. B. Brunson and T. Wilson.
1990	Cowper, E. Thematic underspecification and manner-of-motion verbs. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 11(2): 1‑8, ed. B. Brunson and T. Wilson.
1989	Cowper, E. Thematic underspecification: The case of have. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 10: 85‑93, ed. B. Brunson, S. Burton and T. Wilson.
1989	Cowper, E. Perfective -en is Passive -en. Proceedings of the Eighth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. E. J. Fee and K. Hunt: 85‑93.
1988	Cowper, E. Deriving inherent case: Passives in German. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 9: 49‑58, ed. P. Avery.
1987	Cowper, E. What is a subject? Non-nominative subjects in Icelandic. Proceedings of NELS 18, ed. J. Blevins and J. Carter: 94‑108. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
1985	Cowper, E. Parasitic gaps, coordinate structures and the subjacency condition. Proceedings of NELS 15, ed. S. Berman, J-W. Choe and J. McDonough: 75‑86. Amherst, MA: GLSA
1984	Rice, K., and E. Cowper Consonant mutation and autosegmental morphology. CLS 20: Papers from the Twentieth Regional Meeting, ed. J. Drogo, V. Mishra and D. Testen: 309‑320. Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.
1979	Cowper, E. A reanalysis of topicalization in Spanish. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, ed. E. Battistella: 239‑248. CUNYforum, City University of New York.
1979	Cowper, E. Right dislocation in Franco-Canadian. Papers from the Fifteenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, ed. P.R. Clyne, W.F. Hanks and C.L. Hofbauer: 70‑77. Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.
1976	Cowper, E. Constraints on sentence complexity: A model for syntactic processing. Ph.D. Thesis, Brown University, Providence, R.I.

Manuscripts

2019	Bjorkman, B., E. Cowper, and D. Siddiqi. Unifying -ing without participles.
2012	Cowper, E., and D. C. Hall. The syntactic uncoupling of voice and aspect in Modern English.
2003	Cowper, E. Tense, mood and aspect: A feature-geometric approach.

Talks and Posters Presented, other than those listed above as published

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2022	A woman's auxiliaries, and how they can help. Plenary lecture, annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
2022	Person and gender in pronoun paradigms: A semantic account of a morphological pattern. Annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. (with B. Bjorkman, I. Boyer, D. C. Hall, L. Koren, and D. Siddiqi) (handout)
2018	Unifying -ing without participles. GLOW 41, Budapest. (with B. Bjorkman, D. Siddiqi) (poster)
2017	Existential closure and a unified account of the English present participle. Keynote address (Cowper), Mo-MOT 2, Université du Québec à Montréal. (with B. Bjorkman, D. Siddiqi)
2017	Contrastive hierarchies and the formal representation of person. NELS 48, University of Iceland, Reykjavík. (with D. C. Hall) (poster)(handout)
2017	First-order person features and the contrastive hierarchy. Annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Ryerson University, Toronto. (with D. C. Hall) (handout)
2017	From homophony to unity. Cog Sci Colloquium (Siddiqi), Carleton University. (with B. Bjorkman, D. Siddiqi)
2017	From homophony to unity. Invited talk (Siddiqi), York University. (with B. Bjorkman, D. Siddiqi)
2016	The nature of finiteness. Annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Calgary.
2015	Topic have: An applicative account. 39th meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s.
2015	There then and now. Workshop on Parameters in Historical Syntax, SLE, Leiden. (with B. Bjorkman, D. C. Hall, R. Tollan, and N. Banerjee) (handout)
2015	Illusions of Transitive Expletives in Middle English. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples. (with B. Bjorkman, D. C. Hall, R. Tollan, and N. Banerjee) (handout)
2015	Investigating the past of the futurate present. DiGS 17, University of Iceland. (with D. C. Hall, B. Bjorkman, R. Tollan, and N. Banerjee) (handout)
2014	Morphosyntactic features and the scope of contrast. 38th meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. (with D. C. Hall) (handout)
2014	The contrastive hierarchy in morphosyntax: Some preliminary ideas. Dog Days Workshop, University of Toronto.
2014	More about have: This talk might have a new analysis in it. University of Toronto Syntax-Semantics group.
2013	What’s universal about features. Dog Days of Summer workshop, Toronto. (With D. C. Hall)
2013	A neoparametric approach to variation and change in English modals. GLOW workshop on syntactic variation and change, Lund University. (With D. C. Hall) (handout)
2011	From Aspect to Voice: The descent of the passive light verb in English. Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS13), University of Pennsylvania. With (D. C. Hall) (poster)
2010	Auxiliary verb insertion. University of Toronto Syntax Group.
2008	Tea, Eels, Furniture and Cattle. Bilingual Workshop on Theoretical Linguistics, Ottawa. (With D. C. Hall) (handout)
2006	Asymmetries in Cantonese glides: where is the OCP evaluated?. Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Workshop on Phonology, Toronto. (With M. Barrie and D. C. Hall)
2005	The formal features of number and what they might mean. University of Toronto Syntax Project.
2004	Markedness in morphosyntactic feature geometries. Phi Workshop, McGill University.
2003	Formal properties of feature geometry. University of Toronto Syntax Project.
2003	Simplex and complex progressives in English and Spanish. Midwinter Workshop on Complex Predicates, University of Toronto.
2003	Parameters if INFL: English aspect and Spanish tense. University of Toronto Syntax Project.
2002	Aspects of finiteness. University of Toronto Syntax Project.
2002	Nominal features and their organization in English. University of Toronto Syntax Project. (with D. C. Hall)
2001	The scope of conjunction. UNC Spring Linguistics Colloquium, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (with D. C. Hall)
1999	Semantic composition and syntactic structure: English inflection. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Sherbrooke. (with D. C. Hall)(handout)
1998	Feature geometry meets formal semantics: Synergy or train wreck? University of Toronto Syntax Project.
1998	The wonders of -ing. Third Annual Workshop on Multiple Frameworks in Linguistics, University of Toronto.
1996	The limits of grammatical meaning: The case of English tense. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1996	The complexities of the English simple present. Inaugural Margaret Stobie Lecture, University of Manitoba.
1995	Features of tense. Keynote address, Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Dartmouth College.
1993	Approaches to lexical semantics. University of Calgary.
1993	Motivating functional categories. University of Calgary.
1991	Universal grammar and the human language faculty. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
1991	Perfect and passive -en in a compositional theory of tense. Cornell University.
1991	A lexical semantics of tense. Cornell University.
1990	Tense and aspect in English: A compositional approach. Université du Québec à Montréal.
1988	Comments on Kihm & Gomes: The Structure of INFL in Manjaku. Workshop on Niger-Congo Syntax, MIT.
1987	The phonology of Mende alienable possession. XVIII Annual Conference on African Linguistics. (with K Rice)
1987	Parameters in case assignment. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (with L. Scholten and K. Smith)
1986	The phonological nature of Mende consonant mutation. XVII Annual Conference on African Linguistics. (with K. Rice)
1985	COMP and control theory. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
1985	Phonology and reduplication. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. (with K. Rice)
1984	Re: Reduplication again. SUNY Buffalo. (with K. Rice)
1984	Branching chains: A problem for syntactic processing. Cognitive Science Seminar Series, McLuhan Programme in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.
1984	Some problems in Mende word formation. Toronto Linguistics Atelier. (with K. Rice)
1984	Word formation outside the lexicon. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. (with K Rice)
1983	The interaction of mutation and reduplication in Mende. Toronto Linguistics Atelier. (with K Rice)
1981	Right node raising, symmetric predicates and semantic interpretation. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
1981	Conjoined structure in English. Toronto Working Group on Language Universals.
1981	Problems in English phrase structure. Toronto Linguistics Atelier.
1980	Subcategorization in English complement sentences. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
1980	S is not a projection of V: Evidence from subcategorization. Colloquium on Formal Syntax, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1980	Tense and the INFL morpheme in English. Toronto Linguistics Atelier.
1978	A constraint on comparative deletion. Toronto Linguistics Atelier.
1977	Explanatory adequacy and universal constraints on rule applicability. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
1977	Take four hours, a misfit predicate. Toronto Linguistics Atelier.

Courses taught

Linguistic Concepts for Effective Writing
Introduction to General Linguistics
Phonetics
Sound Patterns in Language
Morphological Patterns
Syntactic Patterns
Introduction to Transformational Grammar
Introduction to Syntactic Analysis
Introduction to Syntactic Theory
Advanced Morphology: Morphosyntax
Relational and Functional Syntax
Introduction to Analysis and Argumentation
Semantics
Advanced Syntax I, II, III and IV

Graduate Supervision (primary supervisions only)

2024	Emilia Melara. Missing Subjects in Mauritian Creole: pro or Voice? Ph.D.
2021	Alexandra Motut. Remote Agree: Agreeing into the workspace and a case study in control. Ph.D.
2019	Daniel A. Milway. Explaining the resultative parameter. Ph.D.
2016	Keffyalew Gebregziabher. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow. (2014-2016)
2015	Bronwyn Bjorkman. Banting Postdoctoral Fellow. (2013-2015)
	Shayna Gardiner. The syntax of possession in Old and Middle Egyptian. Generals Paper.
	Daniel Milway. Directionalized locatives: A label-theoretic account. Generals Paper.
	Yining Nie. French morphology and the pieces of inflection. M.A.
2014	Radu Craioveanu. Levels of Aspect in Finnish and Estonian. Generals Paper.
	Emilia Melara. Embedded Tense and P(ersonal) Deixis. M.A.
2013	Bronwyn Bjorkman. SSHRC Postdoctoral fellow. (2012-2013)
	Sarah Clarke. Aspectual scope and contrast in Engish and Japanese. Ph.D.
	Jada Fung. A classifier analysis of Cantonese nominal modification: The case of the particle ge. M.A.
2012	Kenji Oda. Issues in the left periphery of modern Irish. Ph.D.
	Tomohiro Yokoyama. On the existence of small clauses in Japanese. M.A.
2011	Tanya Slavin. The syntax and semantics of stem composition in Ojicree. Ph.D.
	Maria Kyriakaki. DETs in the functional syntax of Greek nominals. Ph.D.
	Derek Denis. Expletives and the EPP in Scandinavian. Generals paper.
2010	Eric Smith. Query-based annotation and the Sumerian verbal prefixes. Ph.D. (with G. Hirst)
	Will Oxford. Same, different and other: The microsyntax of identity adjectives. Generals paper.
	Elizabeth Erhardt. The syntax of Classical Japanese bound particles. M.A.
2009	Maria Kyriakaki. The antipassive of Ojibwe and its phenomenal objects. Generals Paper.
	Alexandra Motut. Merge over move and the empirical force of economy in minimalism. M.A.
2008	Rashid Al-Balushi. Bare nouns in Arabic. Generals Paper. (with M. Ippolito)
	Vanessa Crandall. The Morphosyntax of Choctaw verbal agreement. M.A.
2006	Michael Barrie. Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation. Ph.D.
	Benjamin Flight. Constraining Distributed Morphology. M.A. (with B. E. Dresher)
	Maria Kyriakaki. Features of Tense in Modern Greek. M.A.
	Eric Smith. A unified account of Elamite Class-Markers. Generals Paper.
	Paul Arsenault. Marking the Unmarked: the geometry of exceptional syncretisms. Generals Paper.
2005	Magdalena Goledzinowska. Basic Thematic Relations. Generals Paper.
	Mohammad Haji Abdolhosseini. Modularity and soft constraints: a theory of conflict resolution in grammar. Ph.D.
	Marina Sherkina Lieber. Where does aspect in Russian come from? Generals Paper.
	Sarah Clarke. A Syntactic Account of Japanese Stative Potentials. M.A.
	David Newton. Noun class, gender and phi in Swahili and other Bantu languages. M.A.
2004	Kenji Oda. V1 and wh-questions: a typology. Generals Paper.
	Jessica Taylor. Irish Agreement in Distributed Morphology. M.A.
	Eugenia Suh. Scrambling in Korean. M.A.
	Chiara Frigeni. Deconstructing Passives in Italian Generals Paper.
2003	Milan Rezac: An E-Type analysis of variables in Weak Islands. Generals Paper.
	Mohammad Haji Abdolhosseini. A Constraint-Based Approach to Prosody in Natural Language Generation. Generals Paper.
2002	Jonathon Herd. Deriving the Maori Clause: a Predicate-Fronting Analysis. M.A.
	Kenji Oda. WH-Questions in V-initial languages. M.A.
2001	Daniel Currie Hall. The Featural Semantics of English Modal Verbs. Generals Paper.
2000	Kristen Phan. Observations on Partitivity in Standard Italian: the syntax and semantics of the Italian clitic ne M.A.
	Susana Béjar. Agreement in Georgian. Generals Paper.
1999	Elaine Gold: Aspect, Tense and the Lexicon: Expression of Time in Yiddish. PhD.
	Suzanne Bélanger: Verb Phrase Ellipsis and Parasitic Linking. MA.
1998	Päivi Koskinen: Features and Categories: Non-Finite Constructions in Finnish. PhD.
	Carolyn Smallwood. Agreement with Postverbal Subjects and the EPP. Generals Paper.
1997	Julie Legate. Irish Predication: a Minimalist Analysis. MA.
1996	Jun Mo Cho Coordinate Structures in Korean. Generals Paper.
	Jana Kotalík: A Government-Binding Analysis of Theme and Rheme in Czech. MA.
1995	Regine Moorcroft. Clause-Level Functional Categories in Germanic V2 Languages. PhD.
	Vincent DeCaen. On the Placement and Interpretation of the Verb in Standard Biblical Hebrew Prose. PhD. (with J. Revell)
	Zhang Ning. Syntactic Focussing in Mandarin Chinese. Generals Paper.
1994	Elaine Gold. Head Adjunction and Movement: Evidence from Yiddish. Generals Paper.
	Peter Birt. On The Nature of WH-Movement at Logical Form. MA.
	Janet Rowe. English Modals and the Functional-Lexical Distinction. Generals Paper. (with D. Massam)
1993	Martha McGinnis. The Deontic/Epistemic Distinction in English Modals: A Compositional Analysis M.A.
1992	Barbara Brunson. Thematic Discontinuity. PhD.
	Janet Shawyer(Rowe). On the Use of Targets in Speech Error Research. M.A. (with R. Smyth)
1990	Jila Ghomeshi. The Semantics of the Auxiliary Verb fela in Bengali. M.A.
1988	Strang C. Burton. “Some Lexical and Thematic Relations in Halkomelem Salish.” M.A.
1987	John Davison. Halkomelem Syntax. M.A.
	Deborah Lillis. A V'' Analysis of Haitian Creole: Effects on Casemarking and A'-chains. M.A.
	Henrietta Hung. Lexical and Functional Categories in Bahasa Malaysia. M.A.
1986	Lisa Lai Shen Cheng. Clause Structures in Mandarin. M.A.
	Barbara Brunson. A Government-Binding Parser for Warlpiri and its Implications for Syntactic Theory. M.A. (with G. Hirst)
1984	David Beattie. The Environment of Chinese Tone Sandhi. M.A. (with K. Rice)
1982	Karen McIntosh. Learnability. M.A. (with J. K. Chambers)
1981	M.E. O’Neail. Subjective and Objective Pronouns in Oneida. M.A.
1980	Diane Massam. Time Reference Interpretation in Complex Sentences. M.A.
1979	Joseph Dion. The Functional Unity of the Chinese Particle de. M.A.
	Hiroko Kimura. Noun Phrase Deletion and Pronominalization in Japanese. M.A.
	Leslie Saxon. Dogrib Questions and Topicalization. M.A.
1978	Guy Ewing. Developmental Grammar: A Preliminary Study. M.A. (with C. A. Yorio)