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