Emma L. Pavey PhD

Assistant Professor

Department: School of Graduate Studies, Linguistics, MALing, ACTS

Phone1: 604-888-7511 x3961

Area of Expertise: Syntax (grammar, arrangement of words); Semantics (linguistic meaning)

Research: Functional Approaches To Focus Constructions and Markers in English and Cross-Linguistically; Predication/Reference Interface; Linguistics Pedagogy and the Application of Holistic Linguistic Theory to Language Analysis

Education: PhD (University of Sussex) 2004; MA Linguistics - Concentration in Communications (University of North Dakota) 2001; BA Linguistics with French (University of Sussex) 1995

Courses Taught:

Syntax and Semantics
Problems in Morphology and Syntax

Recent Publications:

2010 The Structure of Language: an introduction to grammatical analysis. Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521517869
2009 What it is is pseudoclefts changed. Southern Journal of Linguistics 33:1 24-39.
2008 Predication and reference: the interpretation of noun phrases in specificational constructions. In Van Valin, Jr. (ed). Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. John Benjamins. 305-317
2008 Advantages of a monostratal approach to the it-cleft construction. Proceedings of the 40^th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 15^th-17^th April, 2004, Chicago, USA. 209-223.
2004 The English it-cleft construction: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis Ph.D. dissertation. Available at: http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/research/rrg/PAVEY%202004.pdf
2003 An analysis of it-clefts within a Role and Reference Grammar framework. University of North Dakota-SIL Working Papers vol 47 (2003). Available at: http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics/wp/2003.htm
2002 Information Structure in Manitoban French – Identificational Clefts and Left-detachment Structures. Linguistics and English Language Working Papers (University of Sussex). Available at: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/documents/pavey.pdf
2001 Information Structure in Acadian French. MA thesis. Available at: http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/linguistics/theses/2001Pavey.PDF

Conferences & Presentations:

2009 A preliminary RRG account of functional positions in American Sign Language. Paper presented at the 2009 International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, 6-9th August 2009, University of California at Berkeley, USA.
2007 What it is is pseudoclefts changed. Paper presented at the 2007 Conference of the Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association, 5th Oct, 2007, Calgary, Canada.
2006 Predication and reference: the interpretation of noun phrases in specificational constructions. Paper presented at the 2006 International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, 1st Oct, 2006. University of Leipzig, Germany.
2005 Basically, what it is is this. Colloquium paper presented at the Summer Institute of Linguistics, 23rd June, 2005. University of North Dakota, USA.
2004 Advantages of a monostratal approach to the it-cleft construction. Paper presented at the 40^th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 15-17^thApril 2004, University of Chicago, USA.
2003 An analysis of it-clefts within a Role and Reference Grammar framework. Paper presented at the 2003 International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, 14-20^th July 2003, São Paolo State University, São José de Rio Preto, Brazil.
2003 The study of it-clefts in English: a survey of the literature and issues arising. Paper presented at Research on Language and Linguistics (ROLLS), 3^rd March 2003, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
2002 Information Structure in Manitoban French: Identificational clefts and left-detachment structures. Paper presented at the 2002 International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, 22-28 July 2002, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, Spain.
2000 Media, Modernity and Globalization: Articulating Culture and Power. Panel presentation at the 15^th Annual Red River Communication Conference, 24-26th April 2000, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA.