Department of Linguistics

University of Toronto

Sidney Smith Hall

100 St. George Street

Toronto, Ontario

Canada M5S 3G3

Education

][ Ph.D. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; Linguistics. (2009–)

]][[ Generals Paper 1: Innovators and innovation: Tracking the innovators of 'and stuff' in York English.

]][[ Generals Paper 2: "Null" expletives, the EPP and Affix Support in Scandinavian.

][ M.A. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; Linguistics. (2008–2009)

]][[ Thesis: Transmission and Diffusion Above The Level of Phonology in Thunder Bay, Ontario

]][[ Supervisor: Sali Tagliamonte

][ Hon. B.A. Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; specialist in Linguistics, graduate of High Distinction (2003–2008)

Research interests

][ Language change, language variation, linguistic innovation, Canadian English

][ The architecture of the human language faculty and the syntax-semantics interface

derek[dot]denis[at]utoronto[dot]ca