Ileana Paul

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519-661-2111 ext 85360

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University College, room 3125

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UBC, 1987
McGill University BA, 1991
McGill University PhD, 2000

General areas of academic specialisation

Linguistics, syntax, semantics, morphology, Malagasy syntax, field techniques for linguistics, Austronesian syntax

Current research

Restructuring in Austronesian, Malagasy pronouns, Malagasy DP structure, null pronouns in Malagasy

Publications

Books edited

2020. I. Paul (editor). Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA). University of Western Ontario.

2018. I. Paul (guest co-editor with Laura Kalin and Jozina Vander Klok). Heading in the right direction: Linguistic Treats for Lisa Travis. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25 (Special Issue in Honour of Lisa Travis). Montreal: McGill.

2015. I. Paul (editor). Dialectal microvariation in Madagascar. Special issue of Western Papers in Linguistics. 

2014. I. Paul (editor). Cross-linguistic investigations of nominalization patterns. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2012. I. Paul (guest editor). Properties of predication. Special issue of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics.

Recent articles published in refereed publications

Forthcoming. Diagnostics for units of language that occupy the determiner position. In S. Armoskaite & M. Wiltschko (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Determiners. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Revised version accepted for publication.

In press. (with Deborah Allotey) Overt PRO in Gã. Studies in African Linguistics.

2024. (with Eric Potsdam) Malagasy framing demonstratives and the syntax of doubling. Glossa 9:1-37

2022. (with Giuliana Giusti and Gianluca Lebani) Variation in the occurrence and interpretation of articles in Malagasy: A comparison with Italian. Languages 7:202.

2022. (with Lisa Travis) Pronominal deficiency: A view from Malagasy. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne De Linguistique, 67(3), 353-382.

2021. (with Diane Massam) Licensing null arguments in recipes across languages. Journal of Linguistics 57:815-839.

2021. (with Jozina Vander Klok) What categorial ambiguity doesn’t tell us about crossed control: Commentary on Jeoung 2020. Language 97:e276-e292.

2020. (with Diane Massam) Une recette pour des arguments nuls. Arborescences 10:113-126.

2020. (with Baholisoa Ralalaoherivony and Henriëtte de Swart). Culminating and non-culminating accomplishments in Malagasy. Linguistics 58:1285-1322.

2017. Reduced structure in Malagasy headlines. Linguistic Variation 17:292-308.

2016. When bare nouns scope wide. The case of Malagasy. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 34:271-305.

2015. (with Key Cortes and Lareina Milambiling) Definiteness without D: The case of Tagalog ang and ng. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 60:361-390.

2012. General number and the structure of DP. In D. Massam (ed) Count and mass across languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 99-111.

2012. (with Eric Potsdam) Sluicing without wh-movement in Malagasy. In J. Merchant & A. Simpson (eds) Sluicing in a cross linguistic perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 164-182.

2012. (with Rita Hanitramalala) Malagasy quantifiers. In E. Keenan & D. Paperno (eds) Handbook of quantifiers in natural language. Dordrecht: Springer. 613-645.

Published proceedings (abstracts were refereed)

2022. Ileana Paul and Eric Potsdam. Malagasy framing demonstratives. In Proceedings of TripleAFLA. 75-88.

2021. Ileana Paul, Lisa Travis, Jozina Vander Klok and Susi Wurmbrand. Crossed control as voice restructuring. In Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.

2021. Ileana Paul and Holly Scott. Clausal complementation in Malagasy. In Proceedings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association.

2020. Ileana Paul and Diane Massam. Recipes in Malagasy and other languages. In Proceedings of Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association.

2019. The syntax of Malagasy auxiliaries: Initial observations. In Proceedings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 24, (ed.) Matt Pearson. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 61-68.

2019. Jake Aziz and Ileana Paul. The intonation of Malagasy: A preliminary look. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. 3792-3796. 

2019. Ileana Paul and Lisa Travis. Augmented Pronoun Construction in Malagasy across time and space. In Proceedings of the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, (eds.) Eszter Ronai, Laura Stigliano and Yenan Sun. Chicago: CLS

2015. Ileana Paul, Baholisoa Ralalaoherivony, Henriëtte de Swart. Aspect and modality in Malagasy maha. In Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistic Association, (ed.) S. Vinerte. 

2015. Ileana Paul, Baholisoa Ralalaoherivony, Henriëtte de Swart. Malagasy maha at the crossroads of voice, causation and modality. In Proceedings of the Forty-second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, (eds.) E. Clem, V. Dawson, A. Shen, A. Skilton, G. Bacon, A. Cheng, E. Maier. 

Non refereed publication

2020. Ileana Paul, Jean Lewis Botouhely. Le malgache (malagasy) Quelques contrastes pertinents pour l'acquisition du Français Langue Seconde par les locuteurs du malgache.

2018. The features of proper determiners in four varieties of Malagasy. In L. Kalin, I. Paul and J. Vander Klok (guest editors), F. Gentile and J. Lamontagne (editors), Heading in the right direction: Linguistic treats for Lisa Travis. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25: 324-331.