Maria Kyriakaki, Ph.D

Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto

Sidney Smith Hall, 4th Floor,

100 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G3

Email: 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

Education

Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto (2006 – 2011)

Dissertation: DETs in the functional syntax of Greek Nominals

Advisor: Professor Elizabeth Cowper

Committee: Professor Alana Johns, Professor Diane Massam, Professor Daniel C. Hall

M.A., Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto (2005-2006)

Master Thesis: “The Geometry of Tense, Mood and Aspect in Greek”

Advisor: Professor Elizabeth Cowper, Second Reader: Professor Diane Massam

BA., Department of German Language and Literature, University of Athens (1998 – 2002)

Diploma Thesis: “The Greek and German Clause in Traditional and Generative Grammar”

Advisor: Professor Aggeliki Tsokoglou

Research

Areas: Minimalist Syntax, Formal Semantics, Distributed Morphology, Feature Geometries

Interests: The morpho-syntax and semantics of nominal and verbal elements, Properties of Ds, Number, Aspect, Tense, Clause-Types

Languages of specification: English, German, Greek, Ojibwe (Canadian Indian language)

Courses taught at University of Toronto

- Introduction to Linguistics (LIN100Y1Y) – St. George Campus (2012)

A general introduction to the field of linguistics, the analytic study of human languages. The course focuses on core areas of linguistics as well as on broader topics in linguistics. The course objectives include learning about the field of linguistics and analyzing linguistic data applying general principles of scientific theorizing and thought.

- Introduction to Language (LIN200H5F) – Mississauga Campus (2011)

Course on the structure of language; language and culture, the origin of language, writing systems, and language acquisition.

- Introduction to Language (LIN200H1F) – St. George Campus (2010)

Course on the structure of language; language and culture, the origin of language, writing systems, and language acquisition. It additionally introduces students and English language educators (TESOL) to research essay writing.

- Syntax 1 (LINB06H3F) – Scarborough Campus (2009)

Syntax course on the nature and organization of syntactic systems; their relation to semantic systems and the linguistic organization of discourse; practical work in analysis. Introduction to contemporary Syntax (intermediate level).

Publications*

“DETs in the functional syntax of Greek nominals”. Journal of Greek Linguistics 11, 293–297. Eds. Gaberell Drachman, Brian D. Joseph, Anna Roussou.

“The syntactic partition of the semantics of definiteness”. In Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, ed. Lisa Armstrong.

“What Greek DETs do: The restrictive DP”. In Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, ed. Melinda Heijl.

“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.

“When desiderative exclamations meet the conditionals: The case of Greek”. Cahiers Chronos 9 Journal. Rodopi Publishers. Under Review.

*Please email me for electronic copies of handouts or papers, as well as for up-dated CVs.

Presentations

“The syntactic partition of the semantics of definiteness”. Presented at Canadian Linguistic Association, University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, May 28-30, 2010.

“The underspecification of definite determiners”. Presented at Fourth Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop (TOM 4). University of Toronto, Department of Linguistics, April 9, 2011.

“What Greek DETs do: The restrictive DP”. Presented at 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 Canadian Linguistic Association. Carleton University, Ottawa, May 23 – 25, 2009.

“The meaning of Na and conditional wishes”. Presented at Canadian Linguistic Association. University of British Columbia, 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.

Scholarships and Awards

2010 – 2011 Doctoral Thesis Completion Award (DCA), School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto

2010 – 2011 Doctoral Thesis Completion Grant (DTCG), School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto

2006 – 1010 University of Toronto Fellowship

2005 – 2006 University of Toronto Fellowship