David Heap

heapTéléphone:
519-661-2111 ext 85709

Bureau:
University College, room 3122

Courriel: djheap@uwo.ca

Ph.D. (Toronto: Langues et linguistique romane), 1997
MA (Toronto: French) 1990
Honours B.A. (Toronto: French, Spanish, Linguistics) 1988

Domaines de specialisation

Linguistique générale et française, espagnole, historique, morphologie, phonologie (descriptive et théorique),  variation linguistique, dialectologie romane, théorie de la traduction, langue et genre.

Recherches en cours

Since 2021, Co-Investigator on a major seven-year SSHRC collaborative research project: Surviving Memory in Post-War El Salvador, (Amanada Gzryb, PI). Interpreting, supervising translation and subtitling, participation with international fieldwork team in Chalatenango, El Salvador.

The written and spoken grammatical expression of gender diversity, including non-binary gender identities, in Spanish and French.

La morphologie pronominale dans les variétés gallo-romanes, occitanes, et ibéro-romanes.

Atlas lingüístico de la Península Ibérica (Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula)

Publications  

Volumes:

Perpiñán, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas (eds). 2017. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11. Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Chapitres:

Tuller, Laurie, David Heap, Antoine Bustros, Noam Chomsky, Stephanie Kelly, Máire Noonan, Philippe Prévost, & Verena Stresing. 2022. "Trying to break through the Israeli blockade": Hagit Borer's anti-occupation activism and 2012 travel to Gaza. In For Hagit: A celebration. Linnaea Stockall, Luisa Martí, David Adger, Isabelle Roy & Sarah Ouwayda (Eds). Queen Mary University of London Occasional Papers in Linguistics,
no.47, 33p.

Heap, David & Adriana Soto-Corominas. 2020. "Le « recyclage » dans l’acquisition des clitiques obliques en catalan : la sous-spécification et la complexité." Dans Michelle Troberg et Sandrine Tailleur (rédactrices), Arborescences: Revue d’études françaises, 10: Hommage à Yves Roberge : clitiques, éléments nuls, et autres problèmes de syntaxe et d’acquisition, 87-101.

Heap David, Michèle Oliviéri and Katerina Palasis, 2017, "Clitic Pronouns", in Elisabeth Stark and Andreas Dufter (eds.) Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 183-229.

Oliviéri, Michèle, Jean-Pierre Lai, and David Heap, 2017. Partial Subject Paradigms and Feature Geometry in Northern Occitan Dialects. In Perpiñán, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar & Adriana Soto-Corominas (eds). Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11. Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 147-167.

Articles:

Heap, David. 2023. Community mobilization in support of contract negotiations: Reflections on the process. Academic Matters, OCUFA’s Journal of Higher Education. 

Heap, David & Yarubi Díaz Colmenares. (to appear). Challenges and (partial) solutions of gender-inclusive translation: Spanish, English and some French in the context of participatory research. Special issue of ELLA (Education, Literature, Language. Norway) on gender and sexuality in the language subjects.  Accepted with revisions, January 2024.

Heap, David. 2024. Los masculinos no tan “genéricos”: estudios empíricos sobre interpretaciones en español y en francés. Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la communicación (Madrid, Ediciones Complutense). 217-230.

Mooney, Robert & David Heap. 2020.Notes sur la distribution géolinguistique de certaines formes pronominales dans les parlers des Alpes Maritimes. Co-Authored with Robert Mooney. Géolinguistique 20.

Nagy, Naomi, Michael Iannozzi, and David Heap, 2018. Faetar null subjects: A variationist study of a heritage language in contact. In Jonathan Kasstan and Naomi Nagy (eds), International Journal of the Sociology of Language: Special Issue on Francoprovençal: Documenting Contact Varieties in Europe and North America, 31-47.   

Papers in conference proceedings (refereed abstracts)

Diaz, Yarubi & David Heap. 2020. «Variation dans les accords du français inclusif ». In Angelica Hernández and M. Emma Butterworth eds., Proceedings of the 2020 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. 29 mai - 1 juin, 2020. Université Western Ontario. London.

Slemp, Katie, David Heap and Yarubi Díaz. 2019. Writing vs. Speech: How do Spanish online videos pronounce gender inclusive language? Proceedings of the 2019 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.

Heap, David, and Adriana Soto-Corominas. 2019. Recycling in Catalan Clitic Acquisition: Underspecification… And Frequency Effects? Proceedings of the 2019 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.