Professional Information: Education, Grants, etc.
Education (partial list)
• Post-doctoral researcher (M.I.T., 2006 - 2008)
• Ph.D. Linguistics (McGill, 2006) Thesis
Abstract, pdf
Positions
• Faculty Lecturer, McGill University (Summer, 2011 - present)
• Researcher, Concordia University (Summer, 2010 - present)
• Lecturer, Université de Montréal (Winter, 2011)
• Assistant Professor, Classics, Modern Languages
and Linguistics, Concordia University (Winter, 2008-Spring,
2010)
• Syntax and Semantics Consultant on NSF grant “Mental
Abacus Education and Spatial Representation of Number.” (2010)
• Lecturer, Post-doctoral researcher, Department of
Linguistics, M.I.T. (2006 - 2008)
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
• Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Standard Research Grant. "Language, Number and Mathematics". Role:
Principal Investigator. (2011-2014, $86, 258)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Standard Research Grant. "Language and Context". Role: Co-applicant.
Principal Investigator: Brendan Gillon. (2010-2013, $72, 873)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada (SSHRC) Post-doctoral
fellowship (2006-2008, $81,000)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral
fellowship (2001-2006, $80,000)
• Graduate Teaching Award, McGill University (2006)
• Fonds pour la formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide a
la Recherche (FCAR) Master's
Fellowship (2001, $5,000)
• Faculty of Graduate Studies Research Fellowship
(2000, $5000)
• Centre for Research in Mind, Language, and Brain
Travel Grant (2004, $800)
Student Supervision
• Ezra Kechet, Member of Ph.D. Thesis Committee. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. 2008.
• Marc Simpson, Member of Master's Thesis Committee. Concordia
University. 2010.
• Sabina Matyiku, Honour's Thesis Co-supervisor (with Dana
Isac). Concordia University. 2009.
• Laura Conroy, Honour's Thesis Supervisor. Concordia
University. 2010.
• Andrij Radio, Honour's Thesis Supervisor. Concordia
University. 2010.
Teaching Experience
• Syntax 3 (LING-671), Graduate course, McGill University
(Fall, 2011).
• Introduction to the Study of Language (LING-200), McGill
University (Fall, 2011).
• Coginitive Science: Concepts (LING-398H), Concordia
University (Winter, 2010, 2011).
• Sémantique/Semantics (LNG6775), Graduate course,
Université de Montréal (Winter, 2011).
• Advanced Semantics (LING-495), Concordia
University (Winter, 2008, 2009).
• Syntax/Pragmatics/Semantics Interface (LING-429), Concordia
University (Fall, 2008).
• Syntax/Semantics Interface (LING-429), Concordia University
(Winter, 2008; Fall 2009).
• Language Acquisition (LING-425), Concordia University
(Winter, 2009).
• Introduction to Syntax (LING-315), Concordia University
(Winter, 2008).
• Introduction to Semantics (Graduate course 24- 970), with Kai
von Fintel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Fall, 2007).
• Language and Mind: the Chomskyan Program (LING/LINZ-222),
Concordia University. (Summer 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; Fall
2008, 2009; Winter 2009, 2010).
• Introduction to Linguistics (LING-201), McGill University.
(Summer 2006).
• Morphology (LING-380), Concordia University. (Winter 2006;
Fall 2008, 2009).
• Semantics (LING-320), Concordia University. (Fall 2004, 2005;
Winter 2009, 2010).
Book Proposal Reviewer for the following Publishers
• MIT Press (2009).
• Cambridge University Press (2010).
Article Reviewer for the following Journals and Collections
• Linguistics and Philosophy (2011, 2012).
• Language and Cognitive Processes (2011, 2012).
• Journal of Semantics (2009, 2010 [two
articles in 2010], 2011 [two articles in 2011]).
• Collection of papers based on the conference "Logical
Models of Reasoning with Vague Information" (2010).
• Natural Language Semantics (NALS) (2009 [two articles in 2009],
2011).
• Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics
(2009).
• Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (NLLT) (2008, 2007, 2011).
• Journal of Linguistics (2003, 2012).
Grant Proposal Reviewer for the following Institutions
• National Science Foundation (NSF) (2010 [two times], 2009).
Abstract Reviewer for the following Conferences
• Verb Concepts Conference (2008).
• Sinn und Bedeutung (2009, 2011).
• GLOW (2011).
• Semantics and Linguistic Theory (2012).
• Mosaic (2010).