2000-2006
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of Languages,
Literatures and Linguistics, York University.
1999
Part-Time Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa.
1997-2000
Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa.
1995-2000
Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa.
1995
Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa.
1992-1995
Associate Information Developer, Toronto Software Solutions Laboratory, IBM.
1991-1992
Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.
1989-1991
Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.
Natalia Mazzaro, "Speaking Spanish with Style: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of
/s/ in Corrientes, Argentina" (2003).
Olga Levitski, "Trilingual Code-Switching
as Communication Strategy: Russian Israelis in Toronto" (2005).
Walter Lotje-Murr, "Pronoun
Drop in Catalán" (2006).
Rephrasing the copula: Contraction
and zero in early African American English. In S. Poplack (ed.), The
English History of African American English. Oxford: Blackwell, 35-72.
2000.
Negation and the creole-origins
hypothesis: Evidence from early African American English. In S. Poplack
(ed.), The English History of African American English. Oxford:
Blackwell, 109-40. (First author: D. Howe). 2000.
Canada. In P. Strazny (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 169-71.
2005.
Language death. In P. Strazny
(ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn,
602-3. 2005.
Papers in conference proceedings:
The decreolization of Canadian
English: Copula contraction and prosody. In J. Jensen & G. Van Herk
(eds.), CLA Annual Conference Proceedings 1998. Ottawa: Department
of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, 431-41. (Co-author: M.E.
Meechan). 1999.
Syntax or morphology? Optimality
in synthetic compounds. In J. Jensen & G. Van Herk (eds.), CLA
Annual Conference Proceedings 2001. Ottawa: Department of Linguistics,
University of Ottawa, 213-24. 2002.
"We labors under a great deal
of disadvantiges": Verbal -s in Early African American English. In S.
Burelle & S. Somesfalean (eds.), CLA Annual Conference Proceedings
2002. Montréal: Département de linguistique et de didactique
des langues, Université du Québec à Montréal,
365-77. (Co-author: G. Van Herk). 2003.
The persistence of grammatical constraints: ³Urban sojourners² from Bequia.
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics.
(Co-author: M. Meyerhoff). (in press).
Papers in refereed journals:
Language death and decreolization:
Two forms of language assimilation. Antaeus [Department of Anthropology,
University of Toronto] 1(1): 77-89. 1990.
A lack of agreement: Celtic
syntax meets the (revised) Minimalist Program. Cahiers Linguistiques
d'Ottawa 25: 31-43. 1997.
Rephrasing the copula: Contracted
and zero copula in African Nova Scotian English. Cahiers Linguistiques
d'Ottawa 26: 85-97. 1998.
Prosodic optimality and variability
in English auxiliaries. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 15(1):
105-19. 2000.
Using the past to explain the
present: Tense and temporal reference in Early African American English.
Language Variation and Change 13(1): 1-35. 2001.
The ain't constraint:
Not-contraction in Early African American English. Language
Variation and Change 17(1): 1-17 . 2005.
S marks the spot? Regional
variation and early African American correspondence. Language Variation
and Change 17(2): 113-31. (Co-author: G. Van Herk). 2005.
Zero copula in the eastern Caribbean: Evidence from Bequia.
American Speech 91(2): 146-63. (Co-author: M. Meyerhoff). 2006.
Reviews and book notices:
Review of I. Dimitracopoulou
(1991), Conversational Competence and Social Development . Journal
of Linguistic Anthropology 1(2): 239-40. 1991.
Book notice of R. Young (1991),
Variation in Interlanguage Morphology. Language 69(1): 227-8.
1993.
Review of C. Myers-Scotton
(1995), Social Motivations for Code-Switching. Language 73(4):
841-4. 1997.
Review of C. Bernstein, R.
Sabino, and T. Nunnally (eds.) (1997), Language Variety in the South
Revisited. The Carrier Pidgin 25(3): 21-4. 1997.
Book notice of M. Görlach
(1999), English in Nineteenth-Century England: An Introduction. Language
77(3): 608. 2001.
Book notice of M. Hundt (1998),
New Zealand English Grammar: Fact or Fiction? Language 78(3): 596.
2002.
Book notice of J. McWhorter
(ed.) (2000), Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles.
Language 78(3): 596-7. 2002.
Review of J. Algeo (ed.) (2001),
The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume VI: English in
North America. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 48(1/2): 125-7.
2003.
Review of P. Muysken (2000),
Bilingual Speech: A Typology of Code-Mixing. Journal of Linguistics
39(3): 678-83. (First author: S. Poplack). 2003.
Review of S. Lanehart (ed.)
(2001), Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African-American English.
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 19(2):424-8. 2004.
Review of J.K. Chambers, P. Trudgill
& N. Schilling-Estes (eds.). (2002).The Handbook of Language Variation
and Change. Language 80(3): 591-4.
Review of X. Huang (1999),
A Study of African-American Vernacular English in America's "Middletown":
Evidence of Linguistic Convergence. The Carrier Pidgin. (in
press).
Review of M. Aceto & J.
Williams (eds). (2003), Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean.
Anthropological Linguistics47(4): 450-2. 2006.
The
persistence of grammatical constraints: The ‘urban sojourners' of Bequia.
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 34. New York University, New York, NY.
(Co-author: M. Meyerhoff). October 2005.
The linguistic consequences
of language shift: Evidence from Toronto. Canadian Linguistic Association,
York University, Toronto, ON. (Co-author: M. Hoffman). May 2006.
Accommodation and ethnicity: Language contact in Toronto.
Sociolinguistics Symposium 16. University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
(Co-author: M. Hoffman). July 2006.
Invited presentations:
Method in the madness of the
copula. Symposium on Objectivity and Commitment in the Study of Early
Black English, NWAVE XXVI. Université Laval, Québec City,
QC. October 1997. (invited panelist)
"The Americans are Smart
Industours hardy people & fears Nothing": Verbal -s on
the eve of the American Revolution. Special session on Accountability
in Reconstructing Verbal -s, Tenth International Conference on
Methods in Dialectology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s,
NF. August 1999. (invited panelist)
Ethnicity as explanation in
linguistic variation: Is it really black and white? Symposium on Ethnicity
and Variation Studies. NWAVE XXX. North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
NC. October 2001. (invited panelist)
Contextualizing variable concord:
Evidence from Early African American English. University of Ulster, Belfast,
U.K. May 2002. (invited speaker).
Prosodic phonology and linguistic
variation: The status of /-s/ in Early African American English. Universidade
de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. May 2003. (invited speaker).
Traces of grammar in pragmatic
formulas. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. (Co-author: R. Torres
Cacoullos). February 2004. (invited speaker).
How to take a complement in
Canadian English. York University, Toronto, ON. (Co-author: R. Torres
Cacoullos). March 2004. (invited speaker).
How to take a complement in
Canadian English. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (Co-author:
R. Torres Cacoullos). April 2004. (invited speaker).
Toronto
Workshop on Phonetics, Gender and Sexual Orientation. November 2005. (invited
discussant).
Language contact and ethnic
identity in Toronto English. DLLL Lecture Series in Linguistics, York
University, Toronto, ON. (Co-author: M. Hoffman). December 2005. (invited
speaker).
Contact without convergence: Varieties
of English on Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines. Centre for Research
on Language Contact, Glendon College, York University, Toronto, ON. March
2006. (invited speaker).
"Not everybody speak the same": Linguistic variation and the individual on Bequia.
Workshop on Variation in the Caribbean: From Creole Continua to Individual Agency.
Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
(Co-author: J. Sidnell). July 2006. (invited panelist).
Language contact and phonological variation in Toronto English. Recherches
actuelles en sociolinguistique, Université du Québec à
Montréal, Montreal, QC.
(Co-author: M. Hoffman). August 2006. (invited poster).