Maria Kyriakaki
Ph.D.
Candidate
(m a r i a dot k y r i a k a k i a t u t
o r o n t o dot c a)
Research
Areas Research
Interests
Minimalist Syntax The
morpho-syntax and semantics of nominals, Properties of Ds
Distributed Morphology Mass/
Count Nouns
Feature Geometry Number,
Aspect, Tense, Clause-Types
Semantics
Education
2006 – present Ph.D. Program, Department of
Linguistics, University of Toronto
Title
of Dissertation: The
functional syntax of Greek Nominals
Advisor:
Professor Elizabeth Cowper
Committee:
Professor Alana Johns, Professor Diane Massam, Daniel C. Hall
Generals
Papers: The
Antipassive of Ojibwe and its Phenomenal Objects
Supervisor:
Professor Elizabeth Cowper
Committee:
Professor Alana Johns, Professor
Susana Béjar
The
meaning of Na and Conditional Wishes
Supervisor: Professor Michela
Ippolito
Committee:
Professor Elizabeth Cowper,
Duk-ho An
2005 – 2006 M.A., Department of Linguistics, University of
Toronto
Master Thesis: “The
Geometry of Tense, Mood and Aspect in Greek”
Advisor:
Professor Elizabeth Cowper
Second
Reader: Professor Diane Massam
1998 – 2002 BA, German Language
and Literature,
Diploma
Thesis: “The Greek and
German Clause in Traditional and Generative Grammar”
Advisor: Professor
Aggeliki Tsokoglou
Conference
presentations*
“What
Greek DETs do: The restrictive DP”. Presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Concordia, Montreal.
May 29-31, 2010.
“The restrictive
modifying nominals of Greek”. Presented at Third
Amsterdam Workshop on Greek Linguistics. University of Amsterdam and
Meertens Instituut of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. May
10, 2010.
“When desiderative
exclamations meet the conditionals: The case of Greek”. Paper presented at Chronos 9th, International Conference on
Tense, Aspect and Modality, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France.
September 2 – 4, 2009.
“The Antipassive of
Ojibwe and its Phenomenal Objects”. Presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association. Carleton University, Ottawa. May
23 – 25, 2009.
“The
meaning of NA and Conditional Wishes”. Presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association. University of Vancouver,
Vancouver. May 31 – June 2, 2008.
“Greek Verbal Stress:
The Lexical, Morphological and Phonological Interface”. Presented at MOT Phonology Workshop. Ottawa. March 2
– 4, 2007.
“A Feature Geometric
Approach: On the Greek past tenses”. Presented at Workshop on Theoretical Morphology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig,
Germany. June 17-18, 2006.
*Handouts/papers are available upon request. Feel free to
contact me.
Publications
“When desiderative exclamations meet
the conditionals: The case of Greek”. Paper under Review. Chronos 9th, International
Conference
on Tense, Aspect and Modality,
Paris Diderot University, Paris, France.
“The Antipassive of Ojibwe and its phenomenal
Objects”. In Proceedings of the 2009
Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic
Association, ed. Frédéric Mailhot.
“The meaning of NA and Conditional Wishes”. In
Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Conference
of the Canadian Linguistic Association, ed.
Susie Jones.
Academic
Teaching Experience
As
an Instructor:
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Syntax 1 (LINB06H3F) – Second year
Syntax
As
Teaching assistant:
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Morphological Patterns in Language
(LIN333H1S)
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Introduction to General Linguistics
(LIN100Y1Y)
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Syntactic Patterns (LIN232).
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Syntactic Theory (LIN331H1F)
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Historical Linguistics (LIN362H1F)
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English Grammar (LIN204H1SE)
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The study of language (LIN200H1S)
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English Grammar (LIN204H1S)
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Sociology of Language (SOC347)