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				<b>Limited Term Assistant Professor</b>
				<br/>Department of Linguistics 
				<br/>Simon Fraser University
				<br/>8888 University Drive
				<br/>Burnaby, BC V5A 
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My research focuses on the cross-linguistic exploration of the morpho-syntax of the extended vP, with a particular attention to the interaction between argument structure, event structure, and case-licensing. My additional areas of interest are natural language processing, second language acquisition, and bilingualism. 

My interests in syntax and morphology include:

					<li> Morpho-syntax of case and agreement  
                                        <li> The syntax of aspect in Slavic
                                        <li> Constructions with 'external' possessors and applied arguments
					<li> Pronominal copula constructions across languages </li>
                                      	<li> Quirky subjects in Icelandic, Russian, Hindi and other languages</li> 
					<li> Ergativity</li> 

					<li>Creole languages and languages in contact 
                                         (Haitian Creole and American Russian)</li>    
					<li>Languages without case and agreement marking</li>
					
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''__''' EDUCATION '''__''       


                               
                                 <br/> 2006  Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, 
                                            UC Riverside
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                                 <br/> 2000 - 2005 Ph. D Linguistics (Syntax) & Certificate in Cognitive Science 
                                            (Computational  Linguistics)
                                             Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ                                                 
                                
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                                 <br/> 1996 - 2000 B.A. Linguistics  New York University, New York, NY   




''__''' DISSERTATION ABSTRACT '''__''      [{UP}pdf%2fDissertationAbstract.pdf| Dissertation Abstract ]



''__''' CV '''__''   [{UP}pdf%2fCVMarkmanSimonFraser10_2007.pdf|My CV]



''__'''SELECTED PAPERS '''__''


[{UP}pdf%2fPaperSemelfactives.pdf|(2007) Slavic Semelfactives, Secondary Imperfectives, and the Cartography of the AspP. Paper sumbitted to Studia Linguistica]

[{UP}pdf%2fPronominal%20CopulasWCCFL2007Paper.pdf|(2007) Pronominal Copula Constructions Are What? Reduced Specificational Pseudo-Clefts! WCCFL 2007]


[{UP}pdf%2fWECOL2006ProceedingsMarkman.pdf|(2007) Cyclic Linearization, Remnant Movement, and a Typology of OVS Constructions. Presented at WECOL 2006, Cal State Fresno]

[{UP}pdf%2fCopulaJSLREVISED.pdf|(2007) The Case of Slavic Predicates Revisited. To Appear in the Journal of Slavic Linguitsics; [draft]]

[{UP}pdf%2fParametricVariationInCaseAndAgreementRevised5_21_07.pdf|(2006/2007) Parametrizing Case and Agreement. Under review NLLT]

[{UP}pdf%2fWCCFL24Paper.pdf|(2005) On Feature Misplacement and (Non)Configurationality. Presented at WCCFL 24 ]

[{UP}pdf%2fWCCFL23_Paper.pdf|(2004) Receiving, Holding, Doing: Not All Experiencers are Created Equal Presented at WCCFL 23]

[{UP}pdf%2fNELS34Paper.pdf|(2004) Causatives Without Causers and Burzio's Generalization.Presented at NELS 34]

[{UP}pdf%2fCompHumor.pdf| (2003) Computational Theory of Humor: Modeling Forced Reinterpretation Jokes]

[{UP}pdf%2fqp2.pdf|(2003) Aspect and the Interpretation of Internal Arguments Qualifying Paper Rutgers University]




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SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS'''__


(2007a) “Applicatives TO, FROM, and AT:  On Dative and Locative Possessors in Russian.” Presented at NELS 38,
        Ottawa, ON, Canada. [{UP}pdf%2fHandoutDativeAndLocativePossNELS2007_markman.pdf|HANDOUT]

(2007b) “What is this? Where is this? On Some Syntactic Oddities of the Pronominal Copula Construction” Invited talk,   
         Brandeis University, Massachusetts  [{UP}pdf%2fHandoutPronominal%20Copulas%20ResearchTalkBrandeis.pdf|HANDOUT]

(2007c) “Pronominal Copula Constructions are what? Reduced Specificational Pseudo-Clefts.” Presented at the 16th   
        Meeting of the Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Stony Brook, NY, 4 – 6 May 2007/ WCCFL 26, Berkeley, CA 

(2007d) “On Slavic semelfactives and secondary imperfectives: implications for the split ‘AspP’. ” Presented at the 31st Penn    
        Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 23 – 25 February 2007  
        [{UP}pdf%2fPLC2007HandoutSemelfactives.pdf|HANDOUT]

(2007e) “Two Be’s and Predicate Case in Russian: matrix vs. embedded clauses.” Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the  
        Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, CA, 4-7 January 2007.

(2006a) “Cyclic Linearization, Remnant Movement, and a Typology of  OVS Constructions.” Presented at Western Conference on   
         Linguistics (WECOL 2006), Cal State Fresno, CA 

(2006b) “Subject Case, Object Case: Ergativity, Accusativity, and Agreement. 
         Presented at the 1st Annual Rutgers University Conference, New Brunswick, NJ    
         [{UP}pdf%2fHandoutRutgers_TalkHandout4_22.pdf|HANDOUT]

(2006c) “On Some Ergative Freedoms and their Absence in Nominative-Accusative Languages.”  
         Presented at the Spring Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

(2006d) “On Two Universals of Case and Agreement and the Morphology–Syntax Connection.” 
         Invited talk, Syntax+, USC.

(2005a) “Subject case, Object Case: Splitting AGREEment.”  
         Invited talk, Syntax/Semantic Seminar, UCLA.  

(2005b) “On Feature Misplacement: Case, Agreement, and (Non)-configurationality.”
         Paper presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics WCCFL 24, Simon Fraser University. 

(2004a) “The Case of Experiencers: Receiving, Holding, Doing.”  Paper presented at WCCFL 23, UC Davis.        
        [{UP}pdf%2fHandoutWCCFL23t.pdf|HANDOUT]
        Also presented at the 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, February, 2004.

(2004b) “Dative subjects within a minimalist theory of case and agreement.” 
        Invited talk at Syntax Supper, CUNY Graduate Center Department of Linguistics.

(2003a) “Causatives without Causers and Burzio’s Generalization.” Paper presented at Northeast Linguistic Society (NELS) 34,  
        State University of Stony Brook, NY. 




__
__'''TEACHING'''__
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__'''LINKS FOR STUDENTS IN LING 222 "INTRODUCTION TO SYNTAX"'''__  
!!! CHANGE IN OFFICE HOURS!!! PLEASE NOTE: WED. 3:30 - 5:30, TUESDAY (REMAINS THE SAME) 

Syllabus Ling 222 Spring 2008[{UP}pdf%2fSyllabusIntroToSyntax222.pdf|HERE]

Week 1, Lectures 1 and 2 Notes [{UP}pdf%2fWeek1%20Lecture1%20and%202Syn222.pdf|HERE]

Week 2 Lectures 1 and 2 Notes [{UP}pdf%2fWeek2Lecture1and2Ling222.pdf|HERE]

Week 3 Lectures 1 and 2 Notes [{UP}pdf%2fWeek3Lecture1and2Ling222.pdf|HERE]

Week 4 Lectures 1 and 2 Notes [{UP}pdf%2fWeek4Lecture1and2Ling222.pdf|HERE]

Written Assignment 2 DUE FEB. 14TH [{UP}pdf%2fHW2Ling222.pdf|HERE ]

NO OFFICE HRS:  FEB.12TH AND FEB.13TH

FEB. 12TH CLASS IS 10:30 - 11:20

Week 6 and 7 Notes Case and Agreement [{UP}pdf%2fWeek6Lecture1and2Ling222CaseAndAgreement.pdf|HERE]

FEB. 19TH CLASS is 10:30 - 11:20

NO OFFICE HRS: FEB. 19th and FEB. 20th

MIDTERM EXAM: FEBRUARY 26TH 2008  (CH. 1 - 5)

Feb. 21st MIDTERM REVIEW - NO NEW NOTES

Written Assignment # 3 DUE MARCH 6TH, 2008 [{UP}pdf%2fWritten%20Assignment%20%233.pdf|Writen Assignment # 3]

Week 6,7,8 COMPLETE NOTES ON CASE AND AGREEMENT; PLEASE DOWNLOAD FOR 2/8/08 [{UP}pdf%2fWeek6Lecture1and2Ling222CaseAndAgreement.pdf|HERE]

Week 9 March 4th - 6th [{UP}pdf%2fWeek8%20Lectures1AND2_GrammaticalRelations.pdf|HERE]

[ REVISED SYLLABUS AS OF MARCH 5TH 2008 PLEASE DOWNLOAD!!!!1] [{UP}pdf%2fRevisedSyllabusLing222WEEK9_13.pdf|HERE]

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT # 4 DUE MARCH 13TH: P.210 EX. 2, P.213 EX. 5

[{UP}pdf%2fWeek%2010Lectures1%20and%202Wh-movement.pdf|Week 10 Notes on Wh-Movement ]
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HW# 5 Ch.8, pp. 234-236 ex.1 and 2 DUE THURSDAY, MARCH 20TH'''''

Additional Topics: Case Theory and Theta Theory NOTES [{UP}pdf%2fWeek%2011_Additional_Topics_ThetaTheory%20and%20Case%20Theory.pdf|HERE]

No Reading for 3/18 - 3/20

For April 1st - April 3rd, 2008:  "SOME UNIVERSALS OF GRAMMAR WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE ORDER OF
MEANINGFUL ELEMENTS" by JOSEPH H. GREENBERG Stanford University In: Joseph H. Greenberg (ed.). 1963. Universals of Language. London: MIT Press, pp. 73-113.   

The paper can be read by going to the following link:  http://ling.kgw.tu-berlin.de/Korean/Artikel02/




''__'''LINKS FOR STUDENTS IN LING 200 English Grammar'''__''
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SPRING 2008'__

!!! CHANGE IN OFFICE HOURS!!! PLEASE NOTE: WED. 3:30 - 5:30, TUESDAY (REMAINS THE SAME) 


'''Teaching Assistant Ms. Lee; Office Hours RCB 9205 10:30-11:30 on Wednesdays.'''

Syllabus Ling 200 Spring 2008 [{UP}pdf%2fSyllabusEnglish%20GrammarSpring2008.pdf|HERE]

Week 1 Lectures 1 and 2 [{UP}pdf%2fWeek1%20January%208AND10.pdf|HERE]

[{UP}pdf%2fHW%231EnglishGrammar2008.pdf|HW#1 Ling 200]

Week 2 Lectures 1 and 2 [{UP}pdf%2fWeek2January%2015%20And%2017.pdf|HERE]

HW#2 English Grammar [{UP}pdf%2fHW%232_English_Grammar.pdf|HW#2 The Correct Version! ]

Week 3 Lectures 1 and 2 [{UP}pdf%2fWeek3%20January%2022%20and%2024.pdf|HERE]

Answers to HW#2 [{UP}pdf%2fAnswers%20For%20HW%232.pdf|HERE]

Week 3 Lecture 2 - Addendum [{UP}pdf%2fWeek%203%20Addendum%20Jan24.pdf|HERE]

[{UP}pdf%2fHW%233EnglishGrammarSpring2008.pdf|HW#3 English Grammar ]

Answers for HW#3 [{UP}pdf%2fHW%233English%20Grammar%20With%20ANSWERS.pdf|HERE]

[{UP}pdf%2fWeek%204%20January29%20and%2030.pdf|Week 4 January 29th and 31st NOTES]

WED. JANUARY 30TH: OFFICE HRS ARE CANCELED DUE TO THE WEATHER

QUIZ #1 IS RESCHEDULED TO FEB. 7TH, 2008

HW# 4 DUE DATE:  FEBRUARY 7TH [{UP}pdf%2fHW%234%20EnglishGrammar.pdf|HERE]

FOR QUIZ #1: REVIEW CH.1-CH.3; WORK BOOK: TILL PAGE 35

SAMPLE QUIZ 1 - WHAT TO EXPECT [{UP}pdf%2fQUIZ1%20WHAT%20TO%20EXPECT.pdf|HERE]

Answers for HW#4 [{UP}pdf%2fHW%234English%20Grammar%20With%20Answers.pdf|HERE]

NO OFFICE HRS FEB.12TH & 13TH

Week 6 February 12 and 14th NOTES [{UP}pdf%2fWeek%206%20February%2012%20and%2014.pdf|HERE]

HW #5 DUE FEBRUARY 19TH, 2008 [{UP}pdf%2fHW%235EnglishGrammar2008.pdf|HERE]

[{UP}pdf%2fHW%235%20With%20Answers.pdf|HW# 5 With Answers ]

Week 7 February 21st, 2008 [{UP}pdf%2fWeek%207%20February%2021st.pdf|HERE]

HW # 6 DUE FEBRUARY 28TH, 2008 [{UP}pdf%2fHW%23%206EnglishGrammar2008.pdf|HERE]

Quiz 2 - What to expect [{UP}pdf%2fSAMPLE%20QUIZ%202.pdf|QUIZ 2 WHAT TO EXPECT]

Answers for HW# 6 [{UP}pdf%2fHW%236%20With%20Answers.pdf|HERE]

Week 8 February 28th and March 3rd [{UP}pdf%2fWeek%208_And_9%20February%2028th.pdf|HERE]

HW # 7 WITH ANSWERS [{UP}pdf%2fHW%237%20With%20Answers.pdf|HERE]

Week 9/ 10  March 6th - March 11th Notes [{UP}pdf%2fWeek%2010%20March6thEnglishGrammar.pdf|HERE]

[Grade Breakdown REVISED!!!]  [{UP}pdf%2fGrade%20Breakdown%20REVISED.pdf|HERE]

[EXTRA CREDIT!!! DUE MARCH 18TH 2008 IN CLASS] [{UP}pdf%2fExtra%20Credit.pdf|HERE]  

For March 20th, 2008: Finish the Work Book

HW #8 and #9  [{UP}pdf%2fHW%238AND9_EnglishGrammar2008.pdf|HERE]

Week 11, March 18 - 20th Notes [{UP}pdf%2fWeek%2011%20March18_20EnglishGrammar.pdf|HERE]

Sample Quiz 3: What to expect [{UP}pdf%2fSAMPLE%20Quiz3Ling200.pdf|HERE]

QUIZ 3 - THURSDAY, MARCH 27TH, 2008

[{UP}pdf%2fHW%238_9_10WITH%20ANSWERS.pdf|HW# 8, 9, 10 With Answers]

[{UP}pdf%2fWeek%2013%20Acquisition.pdf|Week 13, Lecture 2 - Acquisition]

Dear Students,

Just to remind you: your final exam is on April 17th, 2008 at 3:30pm. Please check the room number on the official website or in the department.  I will be in and out of the office between Monday and Thursday.  If you need to see me, please make an appointment.  

Best of luck,
Vita



''__'''LINKS FOR STUDENTS IN 322'''__''


[{UP}pdf%2fWeeks1AND2_NOTES_syntax.pdf|WEEK_1AND_2NOTES_322]

[{UP}pdf%2fHW1.pdf|HW1_322]

[{UP}pdf%2fWeek%202%20Lecture%202%20addendum.pdf|Week 2 Lecture2 ADDENDUM]

no new notes for Week 3 

[{UP}pdf%2fWeek%204%20Lectures1AND2_ThetaTheory.pdf|Week 4 Theta Theory Lecture1AND2]

IMPORTANT INFO: OFFICE HOURS ON TUES. OCT. 9TH. MOVED TO WED. OCT 10TH 1- 3PM  

[{UP}pdf%2fHW2.pdf|HW#2 Syntax 322]

[{UP}pdf%2fWeek%205Lecture%202ThetaTheory%20and%20Case%20Theory.pdf|Week 4 and 5 notes Theta Theory meets Case Theory]

IMPORTANT INFO:  Dear Students in 322, there are no new notes for Monday, Oct 15th. Please use the notes for Week 4&5

[{UP}pdf%2fMidterm%20ReviewSyntaxSFU.pdf|Midterm 322 Review ]

ATTENTION 322 STUDENTS:  THE MIDTERM HAS BEEN MOVED FROM OCTOBER 22nd TO OCTOBER 29th!!!! 

[{UP}pdf%2fSome%20%20trees.pdf|Some Trees ]

[{UP}pdf%2fHW2%20WITH%20ANSWERS.pdf|HW#2 SYNTAX WITH ANSWERS]

[{UP}pdf%2fTREES%20FOR%20RAISING%20CONSTRUCTIONS.pdf|SOME MORE TREES: TREES FOR RAISING CONSTRUCTIONS]

[{UP}pdf%2fSyntax%20322%20Midterm%20Practice%20sentences.pdf|Midterm 322 Case Theory Practice Sentences ]

[{UP}pdf%2fWeek7%20Verb%20Movement.pdf|UPDATED NOTES WEEK 7,8,9 VERB MOVEMENT!!]

[{UP}pdf%2fHW%233Verb%20Movement.pdf|HW#3 VERB MOVEMENT]

NO OFFICE HOURS MONDAY NOV. 12TH AND TUES. NOV.13TH. OFFICE HOURS MOVED TO WED. NOV.14TH: 1-3PM

[{UP}pdf%2fWeek%209Lecture%202%20Binding.pdf|Week 9 Notes Binding Theory]

[{UP}pdf%2fHW%234.pdf|HW#4 Binding CORRECTED!!!!]

[{UP}pdf%2fWeek11Lecture1AND2Infinitives.pdf|Week 11 Lecture1AND2 Infinitives]

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!! HW#4 CONTAINED A TYPO. Sentences in (1) and (2) should have the index 'i' after 'cat'  not after 'fat' !!!! PLEASE, DOWNLOAD THE CORRECTED VERSION ABOVE! THE HW IS DUE WED. NOV.21, NOT MONDAY NOV.19TH.

[{UP}pdf%2fHW%235Syntax.pdf|HW#5 Syntax - WITH CORRECTION ]

Students in 322, for HW#5, please use the sentence "Homer considers Bart ''to be'' annoying" as opposed to
"Homer considers Bart annoying".  This should make your jobs easier.  



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