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Curriculum Vitae Dr. Panayiotis A. Pappas, Associate Professor, Linguistics
Biographical Information Contact Information
Email: [email protected]
Webpage: http://www.sfu.ca/people/papappas.html
Address: Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive, Burnaby,
BC V5A 1S6, Canada
Phone +1 604 202 6621
Educational Background 1993 – 2001 Ph.D., Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, USA�
Dissertation: Weak object pronoun placement in Later Medieval and Early Modern
Greek
Supervisor: Prof. Brian Joseph
1989 – 1993 B.A., Liberal Arts, St John's College, Annapolis Maryland, USA�
Thesis: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An instruction in Reason for the purpose of
Happiness
Employment History at Academic Institutions
Sept. 2009 – Current Associate Professor, Linguistics, Simon Fraser University
Sep. 2002 – Aug. 2009 Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Simon Fraser University
Aug. 2001 – Aug. 2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Texas A&M University
Jan. 2000 – Aug. 2000 Teaching Associate, Linguistics, The Ohio State University
Jan. 1998 – Jun. 1998 Teaching Associate, Linguistics, The Ohio State University
Other Employment History
Jan. 2016 – Current Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, SFU
Awards, Honors and Scholarships 2001 Presidential Fellowship The Ohio State University
10-month fellowship in support of dissertation
1997 Fulbright Fellowship The US Information Agency
1-year fellowship for study in Albania. Declined due to civil unrest in the country.
1994 NSF Fellowship National Science Foundation
3-year fellowship for graduate studies in Linguistics
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Nominations 2019 Cormack Teaching Award Faculty of Arts and Sciences, SFU
Nominated by the Department of Linguistics
2014 SFU Excellence in Teaching Award Simon Fraser University
Nominated by an undergraduate student
2008 Gustave O. Arlt Award in Humanities Council of Graduate Schools (USA)
An award given to recognize a scholar who has written a book that represents an
outstanding contribution to scholarship in the humanities. Nominated for Variation
and Morphosyntactic Change in Greek (2004).
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Research
Publications
Completed Works
Books
1. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2004. Variations and Morphosyntactic Change in Greek: From clitics to affixes.
Hampshire and New York: Palgrave McMillan.
Journal Articles
2. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2015. The reallocation of [ʎ] in Cypriot Greek. Dialectologia, 15: 159-179.
3. Jeffrey, Meghan I., Chung-hye Han and Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2015. Experimental evidence of variation and
gradience in the syntax and semantics of transitive subject control. Lingua, 164 (A): 100-131. [Equal
contribution]
4. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2014. Exceptional Clitic Placement in Cypriot Greek: Results from an MET Study. Journal
of Greek Linguistics, 14.2: 190-211.
5. Pappas, Panayiotis A. and Arne O. Mooers. 2011. Phylogenetic methods in Historical Linguistics: Greek as a
case study. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 11.2: 198-220. [Equal contribution]
6. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2008. Stereotypes, variation and change: Understanding the change of coronal
sonorants in a rural variety of Modern Greek. Language Variation and Change, 20: 493-526.
7. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2004. Medieval Greek weak object pronouns and analogical change: A response to
Condoravdi and Kiparsky (2001). Journal of Greek Linguistics, 5.1: 127-157.
8. Joseph, Brian D. and Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2002. On some recent views concerning the development of the
Greek future system. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 26: 247-273. [Equal contribution]
9. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2002. The microcosm of a morphological change: Variation in thelo + infinitive futures
and ethela + infinitive counterfactuals in Early Modern Greek. Diachronica, 18.1: 59-92.
Book Chapters 10. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2019. Stigmatized dialectal features in the Greek of Greek-Canadians. In J. J. Pennington,
V. A. Friedman and L. A. Grenoble (Eds.), And thus you are everywhere honored: Studies dedicated to Brian D.
Joseph. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 1-16.
11. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2011. An empirical perspective on Cypriot clitics. In Ch. Basea-Bezandaku, I. Manolessou,
A. Aphroudakis, G. Katsouda and St. Mpeis (Eds.), Neoeliniki Dialektologia [Modern Greek Dialectology] vol. 6.
Athens: KENDI, 413-436.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
12. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2017. Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek. In
I. Buchstaller and B. Siebenhaar (Eds.), Language Variation – European Perspectives VI. Selected papers from
the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig 2015. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins, 113-124.
13. Pappas, Panayiotis A. and Meghan Jeffrey. 2013. Raising and Shifting in British Columbia English. In A.
Barysevich, A. D’Arcy and D. Heap (Eds.), Proceedings of Methods XIV: Papers from the Fourteenth
International Conference on Methods in Dialectology 2011. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 36-47. [Equal contribution]
14. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2010. Object clitic placement in the history of Cypriot Greek. In B. Heselwood and C.
Upton (Eds.), Proceedings of Methods XIII: Papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in
Dialectology 2008. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 260-269.
15. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2006. Stereotypes and /n/ variation in Patras, Greece: Results from a pilot study. 2006.
In F. Hinskens (Ed.), Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected papers from the Third International
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Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005. Amsterdam: John Benjamins,
153-167.
Non-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
16. Tsolakidis, Symeon, Angela Ralli and Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2019. Aspects of the imperfect tense in the Greek
language of Greek immigrants in Canada. [Opseis tou paratatikou sti nea elliniki ton Ellinon metanaston tou
Kanada]. Studies in Greek Linguistics 39: 999-1012. [Equal contribution]
17. Presnyakova, Irina, Pocholo Umbal and Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2018. The effect of heritage on the Canadian
Shift in Vancouver. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (selected papers from NWAV 46),
24.2: Article 14, https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol24/iss2/14/ [Equal contribution]
18. Pappas, Panayiotis A. and Arne O. Mooers. 2012. The effect of frequency of use in language change [O rolos tis
sixnotitas xrisis sti glossiki allagi]. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 32: 293-300. [Equal contribution]
19. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2010. A new sociolinguistic variable in Cypriot Greek: The palatal lateral (lj). In A. Ralli
and A. Karasimos (Eds.), 4th International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, Chios,
11-13 June 2009. Patras: University of Patras Press, accessible at
http://www.philology.upatras.gr/LMGD/el/research/downloads/MGDLT4_Proceedings.pdf
20. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2008. 'You damn hill-billy!' the interpretation of [lji] and [nji] in Modern Greek ['Ade mori
vlahara!' I erminia ton [lji] ke [nji] stin KNE]. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 28: 303-313.
21. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2006. Object clitic placement in the dialects of Medieval Greek. In M. Janse, B. Joseph
and A. Ralli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic
Theory. Patras: University of Patras Press.
22. Heift, Trude and Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2006. Odysseas: Web-based language learning for beginner Greek. In S.
Koeva and M. Dimitrova Vulchanova (Eds.), Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Formal
Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages 18-20 October 2006, Sofia, Bulgaria, 236-239. [Equal
contribution]
23. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2005. Greek in Columbus. In B. D. Joseph, C. G. Preston and D. R. Preston (Eds.),
Language diversity in Michigan and Ohio: Towards two state linguistic profiles. Ann Arbor: Caravan Books,
243-250.
24. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2002. Concrete Contexts of Morphosyntactic Change. In D. E. Johnson and T. Sanchez
(Eds.), Penn Working Papers in Linguistics (selected papers from NWAV 30), 8.3: 59-74.
25. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2002. The imperative and weak object pronoun placement in Later Medieval Greek.
Studies in Greek Linguistics, 22: 234-248.
Encyclopedia Entries
26. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2007. Greek. In R. Sisson, C. Zacher and A. Cayton (Eds.), The American Midwest: An
Interpretive Encyclopedia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Working Papers
27. Tsolakidis, Symeon and Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2019. Vowel raising in the speech of Greek-Canadian immigrants
[Anypsosi fonienton sto logo Ellinon metanaston ston Kanada]. In A. Ralli (Ed.), Patras Working Papers in
Linguistics, Special Issue: Language and immigrants: Studying the speech of Greek immigrants in Canada.
Patras, Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects, 67-82. [Equal contribution]
28. Tsolakidis, Symeon, Angela Ralli and Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2019b. The distribution and usage of the unstressed
syllabic augment in the Modern Greek of Greek-Canadian immigrants [I katanomi kai i xrisi tis syllabikis afksisis
sti Nea Elliniki ton Ellinon metanaston ston Kanada]. In A. Ralli (Ed.), Patras Working Papers in Linguistics,
Special Issue: Language and immigrants: Studying the speech of Greek immigrants in Canada. Patras,
Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects, 37-50. [Equal contribution]
29. Tsolakidis, Symeon, Angela Ralli and Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2019a. Dialect forms of the imperfective in the
speech of Greek-Canadian immigrants [Dialektikes morfes tou paratatikou sto logo Ellinon metanaston tou
Kanada]. In A. Ralli (Ed.), Patras Working Papers in Linguistics, Special Issue: Language and immigrants:
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Studying the speech of Greek immigrants in Canada. Patras, Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects, 23-36.
[Equal contribution]
Reviews
30. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2016. Review of “New York City English” (Dialects of English 10). Michael Newman. 2014.
Boston and Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Pp. ix + 181. World Englishes, 35.4: 629-631.
31. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2015. Review of “Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens”
(Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 57). Irene Theodoropoulou. 2014. Amsterdam and
Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. xiv + 240. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 33.2: 422-424.
32. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2011. Review of “Greek: A Language in Evolution. Essays in Honour of Antonios N.
Jannaris.” Chrys C. Caragounis, (Ed.). 2010. Hildesheim, Zürich and New York: Georg Olms Verlag. Pp. xiv + 344.
Journal of Greek Linguistics, 11.2: 259-263.
33. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2011. Review of “Greek Prepositions: From Antiquity to the Present.” Pietro Bortone.
2010. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xvi + 345. Diachronica, 28.3: 431-438.
34. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2010. Review of “The Future in Greek: From Ancient to Medieval.” Theodore
Markopoulos. 2009. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv + 291. Linguistics, 48.4: 351-354.
35. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2005. Review of “Syntax of the Modern Greek Verbal System: The Use of the Forms,
Particularly in Combination with tha and na.” Rolf Hesse. 2003. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. Pp.
141. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 23.1: 213-215.
36. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2004. Review of “Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language.” David Holton,
Peter Mackridge and Irene Philippaki-Warburton. 2004. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. xiii + 279.
Journal of Greek Linguistics, 5.1: 194-199.
37. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2002. Review of “Will and Tha: A Comparative Study of the Category Future.” Anastasios
Tsangalidis. 1999. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press. Pp. xiv + 272. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 3.1: 233-
236.
Reports
38. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2015. Integrating writing in an introductory course on Linguistics. Report to The Institute
for the Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines, SFU. Accessible at
http://www.sfu.ca/istld/tldg/grants/completed-projects/fass/GS0094.html
39. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2005. Report on the 3rd International Conference on Language Variation in Europe June
23-25, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Phonetician, 92: 40-42.
Databases
40. Anastassiadis, A., Ralli, A., Gekas, A., Pappas, P. A., Papanagiotou, C., Siotou, A., Tsimpouris, Ch., Tsolakidis, S.
2017. Immigration and Language in Canada: Greeks and Greek Canadians. [Electronic Database]. Retrieved
from https://db.immigrec.com/cas.
Works Accepted for Publication
Journal Articles
41. Pappas, Panayiotis A., Maite Taboada and Kathryn Alexander. to appear. Teaching linguistic argumentation
through a writing-intensive approach. Language (online, Teaching in Linguistics section), September 2019.
Book Chapters
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42. Pappas, Panayiotis, A. 2018. Dialect contact and change in a northern idiom [Dialektiki epafi kai glossiki allagi
se ena voreio idioma]. To appear in a Festschrift (6000 words) by May 2019.
Works Submitted for Publication
Journal Articles
43. Wilson, Fiona, Panayiotis A. Pappas and Arne O. Mooers. Submitted. The role of frequency of use in lexical
change: Evidence from Latin and Greek. Submitted to Diachronica (10,000 words). Revise and Resubmit.
Revision submitted March 2019.
Conference Proceedings
44. Pappas, Panayiotis A. Submitted. Dialectal stereotypes in the speech of Greek Canadians [Dialektika
stereotypa sto logo ton Ellinon tou Kanada]. In Proceedings of the 5th Patras International Conference of
Graduate Students in Linguistics, University of Patras, May 27-29 2018.
45. Pappas, Panayiotis A. and Symeon Tsolakidis. Submitted. Unstressed non-high vowel raising in the speech of
Greek Canadian immigrants. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sociolinguistics, Eötvös
Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, 6-8 September 2018.
Works in Progress
Books
46. Pappas, Panayiotis A. Stigmatized dialect features and youth language: A case study from Greece.
Journal Articles
47. Presnyakova, Irina, Pocholo Umbal and Panayiotis A. Pappas. The role of ethnicity in the shaping of Vancouver
English.
48. Pappas, Panayiotis A, Dimitris Papazachariou and Symeon Tsolakidis. The palatalization of laterals in the Greek
of Greek-Canadians.
Book Chapters
49. Joseph, Brian D. and Panayiotis A. Pappas. Sociolinguistics, Language Contact and Change. In N. Topintzi and
M. Lekakou (Eds.), Introduction to Linguistics [Isagogi sti Glossologia]. Athens: Patakis.
Conferences, Workshops and Presentations
Delivered Papers
1. Pappas, Panayiotis A., Dimitris Papazachariou, Symeon Tsolakidis and Irina Presnyakova. 2018. Coronal
palatalization in the Greek of Greek-Canadians. Paper presented at the 47th conference for New Ways of
Analyzing Variation, New York University, New York NY, October 18-22 2018.
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2. Ralli, Angela, Panayiotis A. Pappas and Symeon Tsolakidis. 2018b. Distribution and use of the unaccented
syllabic augment in Canadian Greek. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference of Modern Greek
Dialects and Linguistic Theory, Dept. of Modern Greek Studies, University of Gjirokastër, Gjirokastër, Albania,
October 5, 2018.
3. Pappas, Panayiotis A. and Symeon Tsolakidis. 2018b. Mid Vowel raising in the speech of Greek Canadian
immigrants. Paper presented at 2nd International Conference on Sociolinguistics, Eötvös Loránd University,
Budapest, Hungary, 6-8 September 2018.
4. Karachaliou, Rania, Argiris Archakis, Vasiliki Tsakona, Panayiotis A. Pappas and Angela Ralli. 2018. Hybridity in
transnational self-positioning: The case of Greek immigrants in Canada. Paper presented at the 5th
International Conference Crossroads of Languages and Cultures: Languages and Cultures at Home and at
School, Rethymno, Greece, 1-3 June 2018.
5. Pappas, Panayiotis A. and Symeon Tsolakidis. 2018a. Aspects of dialect contact in the Greek of Greek
Canadians. Paper presented at the Greek Canadian Studies Conference, York University, Toronto ON, May 3-4
2018.
6. Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2018. Stigmatized dialectal features in the Greek of Greek Canadians. Plenary presented
at the 5th Patras International Conference on Graduate Linguistics, Patras University, Patras, Greece, May 27-
29 2018.
7. Ralli, Angela, Panayiotis A. Pappas, Symeon Tsolakidis. 2018a. The imperfective in the Modern Greek of Greek-
Canadian immigrants. [Opseis tou paratatikou sti nea elliniki ton Ellinon metanaston tou Kanada]. Paper
presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki (In Memoriam Michalis Setatos), Thessaloniki, Greece, April 19-21 2018.
8. Pappas, Panayiotis A., Irina Presnyakova and Pocholo Umbal. 2018. Canadian Raising by Heritage Speakers in
Vancouver. Poster presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City
UT, January 5 2018.
9. Presnyakova, Irina, Pocholo Umbal and Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2017. Who belongs to the speech community?
Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46, Madison WI, November 5 2017.
10. Pappas, Panayiotis A., Maite Taboada and Kathryn Alexander. 2017. Teaching linguistic argumentation through
a writing-intensive approach. Paper presented at the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and
Writing, Ryerson University, Toronto ON, May 27-29 2017.
11. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2016. Variation in the history of clitic placement in Greek: The role of lexical exceptions.
Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 45, Vancouver BC, November 5 2016.
12. Pappas, Panayiotis A., Fiona M. Wilson and Arne O. Mooers. 2016. The role of frequency-of-use in lexical
change: Evidence from Latin and Greek. Paper presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society
of America, Washington DC, January 7 2016.
13. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2015b. Spread of voicing assimilation in Northern Greek. Paper presented at New Ways
of Analyzing Variation 44, Toronto ON, October 22-25 2015.
14. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2015a. “Going back to the farm”: a report on how the economic crisis is affecting dialect
usage in Greece. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe,
Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, May 27-29 2015.
15. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2014b. Dialect in a time of crisis: A report from a rural community in Northern Greece.
Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 43, Chicago IL, October 23-26 2014.
16. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2014a. Value in the margins: Clitic placement in Cypriot Greek. Paper presented at the
Fifteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The
Netherlands, August 11-15 2014.
17. Pappas, Panayiotis A. and Emanuela Mileva. 2013. Cypriot Greek Rising: Evidence from the reallocation of a
regional variable. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 42, Pittsburgh PA, October 17-20 2013.
18. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2011. A new sociolinguistic variable in Cypriot Greek: The palatal lateral (ʎ). Paper
presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe. Freiburg Institute for
Advanced Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany, June 29-July 1 2011.
19. Pappas, Panayiotis A. and Arne O. Mooers. 2011. What can phylogenetics contribute to the understanding of
language change? Paper presented at 32nd Annual Meeting Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 6-8 2011.
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20. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2011. Cypriot Clitics: A magnitude estimation analysis of acceptability. Paper presented
at the 20th International Conference of the Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen (GeSuS), Metropolitan
University Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, May 26-28 2011.
21. Mooers, Arne O. and Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2009. Lexical change in Greek and its correlation to change across
Indo-European: Testing the 'frequency of word-use' hypothesis. Paper presented at the 9th International
Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, October 29-31 2009.
22. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2009. A new sociolinguistic variable in Cypriot Greek: The palatal lateral (ʎ). Paper
presented at the 4th International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, Chios, Greece,
June 11-13 2009.
23. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2008. Object clitic placement in Cypriot Greek: Results from a variationist analysis. Paper
presented at t New Ways of Analyzing Variation 37, Houston TX, November 6-9 2008.
24. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2008. Object clitic placement in Cypriot Greek: Variation, change and methodological
challenges. Paper presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Leeds
University, Leeds UK, August 4-8 2008.
25. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2008. Object Clitic Placement in the History of Cypriot Greek. Paper presented at 18th
International Congress of Linguists, Seoul, Korea, July 21-26 2008.
26. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2008. Incipient change in object pronoun placement in Cypriot Greek? Paper presented
at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki,
Greece, May 10-11 2008.
27. Pappas, Panayiotis, A. 2008. Urban vs. Rural: A linguistic divide for young people in Greece. Paper presented at
the 5th International Conference on Youth Language, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,
March 27-29 2008.
28. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2007. Linguistic stereotypes and the family: Evidence from Modern Greek. Paper
presented at 1st Conference on Culture, Language and Social Practice, Colorado University, Boulder CO,
October 5-7 2007.
29. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2007. 'Change from above' in situations of dialect contact. Paper presented at the 17th
International Conference on Historical Linguistics, UQAM, Montreal QC, August 1-6 2007.
30. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2007. Palatal /l/ and /n/ as stereotype. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of
the Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Thesaloniki, Greece, April 21-22 2007.
31. Pappas, Panayiotis A., Lan Kim and Fereshteh Rezaeian. 2006. Code-switching in light verb constructions: A
comparison between Persian/English and Korean/English conversations. Paper presented at New Ways of
Analyzing Variation 35, Columbus OH, November 9-12 2006.
32. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2006. The expansion of a stereotype in a rural Greek community. Paper presented at
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 35, Columbus OH, November 9-12 2006.
33. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2006. Palatalization of /l/ and /n/ in the Greek of Patras and Kefalonia: How age affects
the variation. Paper presented at the GLOBE Conference, Warsaw, Poland, August 30-September 2 2006.
34. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2006. Greek as a foreign language online: The Odysseas project [Ta Ellinika os kseni
glossa meso tou diadiktiou. Parusiasi tou programmatos Odyseas]. Paper presented at the 9th international
conference on inter-cultural education: Greek as a second or foreign language, University of Patras, Patras,
Greece, July 14-16 2005.
35. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2006. Cyclical Analogy. Paper presented at the 3rd now annual Martin Luther King Day
Linguistics Symposium, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, January 18 2006.
36. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2005. Stereotypes and /n/ variation in Patras, Greece: Results from a pilot study. Paper
presented at the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, June 23-25 2005.
37. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2004. The development of weak object pronoun placement in Medieval Greek: Evidence
from regional varieties. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and
Linguistic Theory, Mytilini, Greece, September 30-October 3 2004.
38. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2003. The effect of meter on the placement of weak object pronouns in Later Medieval
Greek. Paper presented at the 2003 Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, York University, York ON,
October 16-18.
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39. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2002. Weak object pronoun placement in Later Medieval Greek and the limits of
generalizations. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San
Francisco CA, January 3-6 2002.
Poster Presentations
40. Pappas, Panayiotis A., Maite Taboada and Kathryn Alexander. 2018. Teaching linguistic argumentation through
a writing-intensive approach. Poster presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of
America, Salt Lake City UT, January 4-7 2018.
41. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2010. A sociolinguistic marker in Cypriot Greek: Variation between [ʎ] & [ʝ]. Poster
presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39, San Antonio TX, November 4-6 2010.
42. Pappas, Panayiotis A. and Meghan Jeffrey. 2010. The Corpus of British Columbia English: Some Early Results.
Poster presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39, San Antonio TX, November 4-6 2010.
43. Pappas, Panayiotis A., Fereshteh Rezeian and Lan Kim. 2008. Understanding 'do' constructions: The light verb
approach. Poster presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago IL,
January 3-6 2008.
44. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2006. The double life of a variable: /l/ and /n/ variation in the Greek of Patra and
Kefalonia. Poster presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque NM,
January 5-8 2006.
Invited Lectures
45. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2019. The Immigrec project: Building a virtual museum of the Greek-Canadian immigrant
experience. Lecture delivered at the Greek History and Culture Seminar series, Ithacan Philanthropic Society,
Melbourne, Australia, April 16 2019.
46. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2019. Insights regarding the formation of the Modern Greek vernacular from the speech
of Greek Canadians. Lecture delivered at the Colloquium Series of the Department of Language and Linguistics,
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, April 15 2019.
47. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2019. Greek dialectal features in the speech of Greek Canadians: An unexpected
treasure trove. The 2019 Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture at the Annual Midwest Slavic Conference, The
Ohio State University, Columbus OH, April 5 2019.
48. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2018. Dialectal stereotypes in the speech of Greek Canadians. Plenary talk at the 5th
Patras International Conference of Graduate Students in Linguistics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece, May
27-29 2018.
49. Pappas, Panayiotis A., Fiona M. Wilson and Arne O. Mooers. 2017. Examining the role of lexical frequency in
the history of Latin and Greek. Lecture delivered at the Colloquium Series of the Department of Philology,
University of Patras, University of Patras, Patras, Greece, March 22 2017.
50. Pappas, Panayiotis A., Maite Taboada and Kathryn Alexander. 2018. Teaching linguistic argumentation through
a writing-intensive approach. Lecture delivered at the Linguistics Circle Colloquium Series, University of
Victoria, Victoria BC, February 9 2017.
51. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2013. Structured Variation in Language. Lecture delivered at the SFU Linguistics
Inaugural Lectures Series, Burnaby BC, March 28 2013.
52. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2013. Rise of the vernacular: Cypriot Greek koine from the perspective of lateral vs.
fricative palatal variation. Lecture delivered at the Linguistics Circle Colloquium Series, University of Victoria,
Victoria BC, February 8 2013.
53. Pappas, Panayiotis A. and Arne O. Mooers. 2011. Applying Methods from Evolutionary Biology to Language
Change: Greek as a Case Study. Lecture delivered at the SFU Department of Archaeology Seminar Series,
Burnaby BC, September 29 2011.
54. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2011. Foundational concepts of variationism and the Adger platform. Lecture delivered
at the Cyprus Acquisition Team Lecture Series, UCY, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 15 2011.
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55. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2011. What can phylogenetics contribute to the understanding of language change?
Examining the role of lexical frequency in the history of Greek. Lecture delivered at the Cyprus Linguistics
Forum, Nicosia, Cyprus, February 28 2011.
56. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2010. Clitic Placement in Cypriot Greek: A history. Lecture delivered at the Cyprus
Acquisition Team Lecture Series, UCY, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 18 2010.
57. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2010. Phylogenetics and Historical Linguistics: General remarks and results from a case
study. Plenary talk at the 26th NorthWest Linguistics Conference, SFU, Burnaby BC, May 8-9 2010.
58. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2007. The acoustics of palatalization. Lecture delivered at the Graduate Seminar on
Phonetics/Phonology, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, April 4 2007.
59. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2007. Stereotypes, variation and change. Lecture delivered at the Cyprus Linguistics
Forum, Nicosia, Cyprus, February 24 2007.
60. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2006. Odysseas: The intelligent language tutor for Greek. Lecture delivered at The Ohio
State University Modern Greek Studies Program, Columbus OH, January 17 2006.
61. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2006. Katharevusa vs. Dhemotiki: One country two languages. Lecture delivered at the
Pharos Greek Cultural Association, Vancouver BC, January 26 2006.
62. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2004. The position of clitics in Medieval Greek [I thesi ton klitikon sta meseonika
ellinika]. Lecture delivered at the University of Patras Department of Linguistics Invited Speaker Series, Patras,
Greece, May 14 2004.
63. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2004. Surface Contexts of Morphosyntactic Change. Lecture delivered at the University
of British Columbia Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series, UBC, Vancouver BC, March 12 2004.
Workshops
64. Pappas, Panayiotis A., Symeon Tsolakidis and Angela Ralli. 2018. Variation in the usage of the imperfective in
the Greek of Greek-Canadians. Paper presented at the 3rd Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics, Reed
College, Portland OR, April 13-14 2018.
65. Pappas, Panayiotis A. and Symeon Tsolakidis. 2017. Report on Immigrec progress in Western Canada.
Presented at Workshop on Immigrec Project, York University, York ON, October 19 2017.
66. Panayiotis A. Pappas. 2014. Probing the margins: Clitic placement in Cypriot Greek. Paper presented at the
Cascadia Workshop on Sociolinguistics, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, March 1-2 2014.
67. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2006. The virtual classroom: Teaching Greek online. Paper presented at the Workshop
on Modern Greek undergraduate and language teaching, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, March 25
2006.
68. Pappas, Panayiotis A. 2004. Weak pronoun placement as a dialect feature of Medieval Cypriot Greek. Paper
presented at The Ohio State University Department of Linguistics Greek Linguistics Workshop, Columbus OH,
January 22 2004.
Research/Project Funding – Received Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2017 Period: 2017 – 2018�Project Title: De-urbanization and
dialect revitalization: a case study from Greece�Funding: SSHRC Small Institutional Grants Type: Internal Total: $6,905�Involvement: Principal Investigator �
Contract/Grant: Teaching and Learning Development Grant Awarded: 2017 Period: 2017 – 2018�Project Title: FASS Forward�Funding: ISTLD Type: Internal Annual: $5,000 Total: $5,000�
Involvement: Principal Investigator �
Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2016 Period: 2016 – 2018�Project Title: Immigration and
Language in Canada: Greeks and Greeks-Canadians�Funding: Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Type: External Annual: $70,589 Total: $141,178�Involvement: Co-Investigator
Collaboration: PIs: Prof. Ralli, Dr. Anastassiadis�Co-Investigators: Dr. Gekas, Dr. Pappas� Total
Grant Value: $995,175�Institution of Co-Investigator(s): University of Patras, McGill University,
University of York
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Contract/Grant: Teaching and Learning development Grant Awarded: 2014 Period: 2014 – 2015�Project Title: Integrating Writing in an introductory course on Linguistics�Funding: Teaching and
Learning Development Grants program. Type: Internal Annual: $5,000 Total: $5,000�
Involvement: Principal Investigator �
Contract/Grant: Strategic Grant Awarded: 2010 Period: 2011 – 2015�Project Title: Human Evolutionary
Studies Program�Funding: SFU Small SSHRC Grant Type: Internal Annual: $450,000 Total: $2,250,000�Collaboration: I was an associate member in this CTEF proposal. It was led by Dr.
Collard, Archaeology�Institution of Co-Investigator(s): SFU
Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2012 Period: 2012 – 2014�Project Title: The effects of
economic crisis on the perception and use of Greek dialects�Funding: SSHRC Institutional Grants
Type: Internal Annual: $3,139 Total: $6,278�Involvement: Principal Investigator �
Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2011 Period: 2012 – 2012�Project Title: Lexical frequency
effects in Greek�Funding: USRA Type: Internal Annual: $4,500 Total: $4,500�Involvement: Principal Investigator �
Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2010 Period: 2010 – 2012�Project Title: A corpus of BC English:
Investigating sociolinguistic variation and language change�Funding: SFU Small SSHRC Grant
Type: Internal Annual: $6,500 Total: $6,500�Involvement: Principal Investigator �
Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2009 Period: 2009 – 2010�Project Title: A Corpus of BC English:
investigating sociolinguistic variation and language change�Funding: Discovery Parks 4A Grant
Type: Internal Annual: $9,670 Total: $9,670�Involvement: Principal Investigator �
Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2005 Period: 2005 – 2008�Project Title: Online Language
Tutors for Chinese and Greek�Funding: The S. Niarchos Foundation Type: External Annual: $451,250 Total: $1,283,750 Involvement: Joint Investigator Collaboration: I assisted Dr.
Gerolymatos, the principal investigator in preparing the application and I was a member of the
committee overseeing research activities. I was also responsible for developing the content for
the Greek courses.�Institution of Co-Investigator(s): SFU
Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2005 Period: 2005 – 2008�Project Title: Clitic pronouns in
Cypriot Greek: synchrony and diachrony�Funding: SSHRC Type: External Annual: $29,273
Total: $87,819�Involvement: Principal Investigator � �
Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2003 Period: 2003 – 2005�Project Title: Greek Intelligent
Language Tutor�Funding: Niarchos Foundation Type: External Annual: $125,000 Total: $250,000�Involvement: Joint Investigator Collaboration: Dr. Gerolymatos of History (and
Hellenic Studies) and Dr. McFetridge of Linguistics were the other investigators in this project. I
assisted in the preparation of the grant proposal and was responsible for developing the
educational content of the program.�Institution of Co-Investigator(s): SFU
Contract/Grant: Conference Grant Awarded: 2004 Period: 2004 – 2004�Project Title: West Coast
Conference on Formal Linguistics 24�Funding: VP academic Type: Internal Total: $2,000�Involvement: Joint Investigator Collaboration: I collaborated with several members of the
Linguistics Department in order to secure seed funding for the organization of the Conference.�
Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2004 Period: 2004 – 2004�Project Title: /l/ and /n/ variation in
the city of Patras: a�sociolinguistic analysis�Funding: SSHRC Small Grant Type: Internal
Annual: NA Total: $4000 CAD�Involvement: Principal Investigator �
Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2003 Period: 2003 – 2004�Project Title: Online Greek Grammar�Funding: The Slavic and Eastern European Language Resource Center Type: External Annual: $4,000 USD Total: $4,000 USD�Involvement: Joint Investigator Collaboration: Pro. Joseph
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was responsible for the phonology and morphology component of the grammar, while I was
responsible for the syntax component of the grammar�Institution of Co-Investigator(s): The
Ohio State University
Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2002 Period: 2002 – 2004�Project Title: The investigation of
weak object pronoun position in post-Classical Greek�Funding: President's Research Grant
Type: Internal Total: $9,951�Involvement: Principal Investigator �
Contract/Grant: Book Grant Awarded: 2003 Period: 2003 – 2003�Project Title: Variation and
Morphosyntactic Change in Greek: from clitics to affixes�Type: Internal Annual: $735 Total: $735�Involvement: Principal Investigator Collaboration: n/a�Institution of Co-Investigator(s): n/a
Contract/Grant: Conference Grant Awarded: 2002 Period: 2002 – 2002�Project Title: Conference Panel on
Greek Linguistics and Greek Cultural Heritage�Funding: Vice-President's Academic's 2003/2004
Conference Fund Type: Internal Total: $1,000�Involvement: Principal Investigator �
International Collaborations Project: Laboratory for Greek Dialectology. Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University. Foreign
Corresponding Fellow, 2019.
Project: Language Variation and Attitudes: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Linguistic Performance and Attitudes of Greek Cypriots in Nicosia, Cyprus. Department of English Studies, Cyprus University. External Collaborator,
2019.
Project: Continuity, contact and change: The syntax of the Greek varieties of Pontus. Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, University of Cambridge. External Collaborator, 2010 – 2015.
Project: Cyprus Acquisition Team. Department of English Studies, Cyprus University. External Collaborator, 2010 –
2011.
Supervision of Research Personnel Project: FASS Forward
September 2017 – December 2018. Part-Time, Kevin Laughren, Ph.D., Research Assisant Funded by: Teaching and
Learning Development Grant. Statistical analysis of student grade performance in a Faculty-wide retention
program.
Project: Language and Immigration in Canada: Greeks and Greek-Canadians
June 2018 – December 2018. Part-Time, Eirini Ioakeimidou, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Stavros Niarchos
Foundation. Transcription.
May 2017 – December 2018. Part-Time, Anna Antonova, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Stavros Niarchos
Foundation. Interviews and transcription.
May 2017 – December 2018. Part-Time, Marianna Michalitsianou, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Stavros
Niarchos Foundation. Interviews and transcription.
March 2017 – December 2018. Part-Time, Pelagia Lovoulou, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Stavros Niarchos
Foundation. Interviews and transcription.
February 2017 – December 2018. Part-Time, Irini Athanasiadou, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Stavros
Niarchos Foundation. Interviews and Transcription.
February 2017 – December 2018. Part-Time, Simeon Tsolakidis, Ph.D., Research Associate Funded by: Stavros
Niarchos Foundation. Interviews, Coordination, Database Management.
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August 2018 – October 2018. Part-Time, Marietta Theodoridou, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Stavros
Niarchos Foundation. Database annotation.
May 2018 – July 2018. Part-Time, Emilie Francis, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Database management.
June 2017 – August 2017. Part-Time, David Weaver, Research Assistant Funded by: Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Archival Research.
February 2017 – July 2017. Part-Time, Pocholo Umbal, M.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Stavros Niarchos
Foundation. Archival Research.
Project: Integrating writing in an introductory course on Linguistics
May 2016 – August 2016. Part-Time, Fiona M. Wilson, M.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Teaching and Learning
Development Grant. Transcription of Exit Interviews for Writing Intensive offering of LING 220.
January 2015 – August 2016. Part-Time, Irina Presnyakova, M.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Teaching and
Learning Development Grant, SFU Dept of Linguistics. Creation of Materials for Writing Intensive work in LING 220.
September 2014 – December 2014. Part-Time, Irina Presnyakova, M.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Teaching
and Learning Development Grant. Preparation of exercises for writing assignments, feedback and rubrics.
September 2014 – December 2014. Part-Time, Pocholo Umbal, B.A.Sc., Research Assistant Funded by: FIC
Fellowship. Segmentation and analysis of vowel formants.
June 2014 – August 2014. Part-Time, Meghan Jeffrey, M.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Teaching and Learning
Development Grant. Literature Review on writing in Linguistics and digitization of exercises.
Project: A corpus of BC English: Investigating sociolinguistic variation and language change
May 2013 – August 2013. Full Time, Maida Percival, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: UGSA. Coordination of
volunteers on a project investigating change in BC English.
September 2012 – December 2012. Part-Time, Sidney MacLellan, Research Assistant Funded by: Work Study.
Correction of transcriptions.
January 2012 – May 2012. Part-Time, Fiona M. Wilson, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: USRA. Investigation of
lexical change from Latin to Spanish.
January 2011 – May 2011. Part-Time, Meghan Jeffrey, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: SFU Small SHHRC Grant.
Interview transcription.
January 2010 – December 2010. Part-Time, Meghan Jeffrey, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Discovery Parks
4A Grant. Interviews with participants, transcribes them and coding of phonetic data.
Project: Clitic pronouns in Cypriot Greek: synchrony and diachrony
January 2009 – April 2009. Part-Time, Emanuela Mileva, M.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Standard SSHRC.
Frequency of word-use and lexical replacement.
January 2009 – April 2009. Part-Time, Kueilien Hsu, M.A., Research Assistant Funded by: SSHRC Standard.
Frequency of word-use and lexical replacement.
Project: Online Language Tutors for Chinese and Greek
September 2003 – August 2006. Full Time, Theodora Antonakopoulou, B.A. Funded by: Ministry of Education,
Hellenic Rebuplic. Research on new methods in Greek language pedagogy and workshop organization for teachers
in the Vancouver Hellenic Community Schools.
February 2004 – December 2004. Full Time, Costas Dedegikas, B.A., Web Designer Funded by: Niarchos Foundation
Grant. Web design and supervision of programmers.
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May 2004 – August 2004. Part-Time, Niki Efstathopoulou, B.A., Research Assistant Funded by: Niarchos Foundation
Grant. Preparation of the online Modern Greek course material, creating homework assignment modules.
February 2004 – August 2004. Full Time, Katia Dilkina, B.A., Computational Linguist Funded by: Niarchos
Foundation Grant. Creation of database for the Modern Greek online course.
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Teaching Undergraduate Teaching at SFU
Course Title Course Number Term and enrolment Sociolinguistics LING 309W
(formerly 409)
Summer 2018 (49), Spring 2018 (45), Spring 2016 (40), Spring 2014
(50), Summer 2010 (33), Fall 2006 (27), Spring 2006 (27), Spring 2004
(18)
Introduction to
Linguistics
LING 220 Summer 2016 (86), Summer 2015 (46), Summer 2013 (114), Fall 2011
(175), Summer 2010 (119), Fall 2008 (126),
Syntax LING 322 Summer 2015 (34), Summer 2014 (34), Summer 2013 (35),
Summer 2012 (35), Summer 2007 (27), Fall 2004 (32)
Historical Linguistics LING 407 Summer 2014 (14), Spring 2008 (23)
Language, Culture
and Society
LING 160
(formerly 260)
Spring 2013 (60), Fall 2007 (21), Fall 2003 (58)
Morphology LING 323 Summer 2007 (33)
Linguistic
Argumentation
LING 301 Spring 2008 (21), Fall 2007 (21)
Topics in Linguistics LING 282W Spring 2019 (50)
Topics in Linguistics LING 481 Spring 2005 (21)
Topics in Linguistics LING 480 Fall 2005 (21)
Directed Research LING 491 Summer 2008, Summer 2004
Modern Greek-
Beginners
LANG 110 (also
GRK 110)
Spring 2003 (12), Summer 2003 (17), Spring 2004 (10), Fall 2004 (15),
Fall 2005 (14), Spring 2006 (11), Fall 2006 (38), Fall 2007 (36), Fall
2008 (30), Fall 2009 (26)
Also, as director of the Hellenic Studies Field School I supervised courses in Archaeology (ARCH 333) and
Humanities (HUM 385) during the Summer terms of 2006, 2005 and 2003.
Graduate Teaching at SFU Course Title Course Number Term and enrolment Syntax LING 801 Fall 2011 (6), Fall 2009 (5), Fall 2008 (5), Fall 2002 (6)
Sociolinguistics LING 806 Spring 2013 (5), Fall 2006 (4), Spring 2006 (2)
Historical Linguistics LING 805 Fall 2009 (4), Spring 2008 (5)
Topics in Linguistics LING 812 Spring 2005 (2)
Directed Research LING 896 Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Summer 2012, Summer
2009
Senior Supervisory Duties of a Thesis/Dissertation
Alosaimi, Arwa. M.A. Speech styles of public figures in Gulf Arabic. Active. 2013-Fall.
Presnyakova, Irina. Ph.D. Language contact effects in the English of Vancouver. Active. 2012-Fall.
Anonby, Stan. Ph.D. Multilingualism among the Sebuyau. Active. 2011-Fall.
Mileva, Emanuela. Ph.D. Discourse strategies in alternative medicine sessions. Active. 2010-Spring.
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Umbal, Pocholo. M.A. The Canadian Shift among Filipinos in Metro Vancouver. Completed. 2013-Fall to 2016-Fall.
Now a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at University of Toronto.
Wilson, Fiona. M.A. An investigation of frequency of use and rate of change from Latin to Spanish. Completed.
2013-Spring to 2015-Spring. Now a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at University of Toronto.
Jeffrey, Meghan. M.A. An experimental investigation of the syntax of "promise". Completed. 2012-Fall to 2014-
Spring.
Mileva, Emanuela. M.A. Linguistic effects of the contact between Greek and Bulgarian for recent Bulgarian
immigrants to Northern Greece. Completed. 2007-Fall to 2009-Fall. Now a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at SFU.
Rezaeian, Fereshteh. M.A. Structural and Social Aspects of Codeswitching among Iranian/Canadian Bilinguals.
Completed. 2005-Fall to 2009-Spring. Now a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Studies at UNLV.
Serving on a Committee of a Thesis/Dissertation
Shorten, Lisa. M.A. The price of admission: Private English schools at the Inner/Expanding Circle interface.
Completed. 2013-Spring to 2017-Fall.
Blenkiron, Amber. M.A. Reduplication in Rotuman. Completed. 2011-Fall to 2013-Fall.
Ehlert, Meilan. M.A.S. Multilingualism and language practice of minority language background youths: A case study
of the ethnic Korean youths in China. Completed. 2006-Fall to 2008-Fall.
Kosa, Andreea. M.A. An argument for process-based morphology: Subtractive morphology in Tohono-O'odham
(Uto-Aztecan). Completed. 2006-Fall to 2008-Summer.
Kim, Lan. M.A. The Ditransitive Construction in Korean. Completed. 2006-Spring to 2008-Spring.
Graduate Supervision Outside SFU (incl. External Examinations) Thomas Swan, Julia. Ph.D. Completed. July 2017.Committee Member. Area: Sociolinguistics Institution: University
Chicago Title: Examining the effects of linguistic and social information on speech processing: Evidence from
perceived /ae/ retraction in the Pacific Northwest
Supervision of Teaching Assistants and Markers
de Weers, Noortje. Writing for Linguistics. LING 282QW. Marker. 2019-Spring
Presnyakova, Irina. Writing for Linguistics. LING 282QW. Marker. 2019-Spring
Gluhareva, Dasha. Sociolinguistics. LING 309W. Marker. 2018-Summer
de Weers, Noortje. Sociolinguistics. LING 309W. Marker. 2018-Summer
Presnyakova, Irina. Sociolinguistics. LING 309W. Marker. 2018-Spring
Gluhareva, Dasha. Sociolinguistics. LING 309W. Marker. 2018-Spring
Umbal, Pocholo. Introduction to Linguistics. LING 220. Teaching Assistant. 2016-Summer
Presnyakova, Irina. Introduction to Linguistics. LING 220. Teaching Assistant. 2016-Summer
Umbal, Pocholo. Sociolinguistics. LING 309W. Marker. 2016-Spring
Katz, Mara. Introduction to Linguistics. LING 220. Teaching Assistant. 2015-Summer
Umbal, Pocholo. Introduction to Linguistics. LING 220. Teaching Assistant. 2015-Summer
Kim, Kyeongmin. Syntax. LING 322. Marker. 2015-Summer
Blenkiron, Amber. Introduction to Linguistics. LING 220. Teaching Assistant. 2013-Summer
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Norafkan, Mehran. Introduction to Linguistics. LING 220. Teaching Assistant. 2013-Summer
Kim, Kyeongmin. Syntax. LING 322. Marker. 2013-Summer
Jeffrey, Thuja. Language, Culture and Society. LING 160. Marker. 2013-Spring
Hinnell, Jennifer. Sociolinguistics. LING309W. Marker. 2012-Summer
Kim, Kyeongmin. Syntax. LING322. Marker. 2012-Summer
Gonzales, Ashleigh. Introduction to Linguistics. LING220. Teaching Assistant. 2011-Fall
Görgülü, Emrah. Introduction to Linguistics. LING220. Teaching Assistant. 2011-Fall
Hinnell, Jennifer. Introduction to Linguistics. LING220. Teaching Assistant. 2011-Fall
Ibata, Rima. Introduction to Linguistics. LING220. Teaching Assistant. 2010-Summer
Mileva, Emanuela. Introduction to Linguistics. LING220. Teaching Assistant. 2010-Summer
Teaching outside SFU September 2010 – December 2010. Cyprus. Cyprus University, Department of English. ENG331 Sociolinguistics.
Lecture. 3 contact hours. 36 students.
September 2010 – December 2010. Cyprus. Cyprus University, Department of English. ENG741 Trends in Applied
Linguistics. Graduate Studies. 4 contact hours. 5 students.
Teaching and Other Professional Development 2018 Integrated Speech Corpus ANalysis, ISCAN: A new tool for large-scale, cross-corpus, sociolinguistic
analysis. NWAV 47, October 2018
2018 Language Variation Suite Toolkit. NWAV 47, October 2018
2018 Reporting statistics for LVC. NWAV 47, October 2018
2017 Guidelines for statistical reporting of multivariate analysis. NWAV 46, October 2017
2017 Progress in regression: Statistical and practical improvements to Rbrul. NWAV 46, October 2017
2015 A non-technical introduction to mixed-effects models for the statistically hesitant linguistic
researcher. NWAV 44, October 2015
2015 Towards best practices in Sociophonetics. NWAV 44, October 2015
2014 A variationist approach to language contact. NWAV 43, October 2014
2014 Quantitative methods: New trends and perspectives. NWAV 43, October 2014
2013 Copyright in the Classroom. SFU Library, September 2013
2012 Curriculum. SFU Registrar's Office, December 2012
2012 Meetings, Rules and Effective Decision Making. SFU Office of Academic Relations, November
2012
2004 Learning to Write, Writing to Learn: The W Course Experience. SFU Vice President Academic,
March 2004
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Service
As Chair of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Teaching and Learning, I oversaw or participated in
the creation of the following University-wide reports:
TAWG Final Report: Strategies to Value Effective Teaching (Spring 2019)
Developing a Teaching Assessment Framework for Simon Fraser University (Spring 2017)
Teaching and Course Evaluation Project: Working Group Report (March 2016)
A Proposal for Developing Flexible Education Opportunities (January 2014)
Student Evaluation of Teaching and Courses (November 2013)
As Teaching Fellow for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), I was in charge of the process of
bringing departments and programs onto the Student Evaluation of Teaching and Courses online
platform. I also supervised the FASS Forward program which aspired to get vulnerable students in large
100-level courses more contact hours with Teaching Assistants in order to provide content support but
also to mitigate the sense of isolation such courses foster. Finally, I devised and ran the Improving
Student Experience Grant program which provided small grants to departments so that they could pilot
their own targeted tutoring programs.
Active Service to Simon Fraser University
Fellowships
January 2016 – August 2019 Faculty Teaching Fellow, Teaching and Learning Committee, Faculty of Arts
and Social Sciences
Departmental Committees
September 2018 – August 2019 Chair, Colloquium Committee
March 2013 – August 2019 Member, Research Participation System Committee
October 2014 – September 2016 Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
October 2013 – September 2014 Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
October 2012 – September 2013 Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
September 2009 – August 2010 Chair, Colloquium Committee
September 2009 – August 2010 Member, Graduate Committee
October 2007 – September 2008 Member, Departmental Working Environment Committee
October 2006 – September 2007 Member, Undergraduate Committee
September 2005 – August 2006 Chair, Colloquium Committee
October 2003 – August 2004 Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee
September 2002 – August 2003 Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee
Departmental Committees not defined
September 2007 – August 2015 Organizer, Inaugural Lectures Series
May 2009 – August 2009 Member, Course Scheduling Committee
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May 2007 – September 2008 Advisor, Academic Integrity
Faculty Committees
March 2013 – September 2015 Member, FASS 2013 Major Entrance Scholarship Adjudication Committee
October 2012 – September 2015 Member, FASS Curriculum Committee
April 2013 – April 2013 Member, FASS Undergraduate Convocation Awards Adjudication
Committee
University Committees
September 2018 – May 2019 Member, Educational Systems Stewardship Committee
September 2018 – May 2019 Chair, Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning (SCUTL)
September 2011 – August 2017 Member, SFU/SSHRC Institutional Grants Committee
June 2015 – December 2016 Member, Educational Systems Stewardship Committee
October 2013 – December 2016 Chair, Senate Committee on University Learning and Teaching
June 2013 – May 2016 Member, Joint Faculty FASS, Senate
June 2014 – May 2015 Member, Learning and Teaching Coordinating Committee
April 2013 – December 2013 FASS representative, VP Research, Search Committee
October 2011 – May 2013 Member, Committee to Review University Admissions
December 2009 – August 2010 Chair, SFUFA Committee on Governance
December 2007 – November 2008 Member, SFUFA Workload Committee (ad hoc)
December 2007 – November 2008 Member, Collegial Governance Committee (ad hoc)
September 2006 – December 2006 General Representative, SFUFA Executive Board
April 2004 – September 2006 Member, University Dining Services Committee
August 2004 – August 2006 General Representative, SFUFA Executive Board
March 2006 – May 2006 Member of Selection Committee, Senior Managing Director Student
Community Life Hiring Committee
Other: Administrational Support for Hellenic Studies Program
September 2002 – August 2011 My duties included directing the Greek Field School, creating,
administering and grading proficiency exams in the Greek language,
organizing the speaker series for the Program, co-editing the Program's
newsletter, acting as liaison with several institutions of the Greek state and
writing grant applications to fund the program.
Other: Teaching and Course Evaluation Project
May 2013 – August 2013 Volunteer, Consultant, Teaching and Course Evaluation Project
Other: University Working Groups
October 2018 – May 2019 Member, Teaching Assessment Working Group (TAWG)
July 2014 – July 2017 Co-Chair, Working Group on Teaching and Course Evaluation
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Active Service to the Academic Community Conference Organization
May 2018 – Current Chair, Organizing Committee, Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics 4
October 2014 – December 2017 Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, New Ways of Analyzing Variation 45
April 2014 – April 2015 Member, Organizing Committee, West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics 33
September 2010 – November 2011 Member, Organizing Committee, Western Conference on Linguistics, 24
September 2004 – April 2005 Member, Organizing Committee, West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics 24
Program Committees
January 2014 – Current Member, Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics
October 2015 – November 2019 Member, NWAV Steering Committee
Journal Editorial Boards
May 2009 – Current Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Greek Linguistics
Journal Reviewing
January 2019 Reviewer, Journal of Logic, Language and Information
December 2018 Reviewer, Journal of Greek Linguistics
January 2016 Reviewer, Diachronica
September 2010 Reviewer, Journal of Linguistics
October 2010 Reviewer, Diachronica
April 2009 Reviewer, Journal of Greek Linguistics
January 2003 Reviewer, Journal of Greek Linguistics
December 2007 Reviewer, Language
February 2002 Reviewer, Journal of Greek Linguistics
Conference Abstract Reviewing
July 2018 Reviewer, New Ways of Analyzing Variation 45
July 2017 Reviewer, New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46
January 2015 Reviewer, 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe
November 2014 Reviewer, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 33
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December 2012 Reviewer, 7th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe
October 2009 Reviewer, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 28
December 2007 Reviewer, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 27
November 2006 Reviewer, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 26
July 2006 Reviewer, New Ways of Analyzing Variation 35
November 2005 Reviewer, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 25
September 2004 Reviewer, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 24
Other Reviewing
March 2019 – Current External Reviewer for the Linguistics Section, Department of Philology,
University of Patras
January 2017 – June 2017 External Reviewer for a Hiring Committee, Department of Italian, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki
January 2016 – June 2016 External Reviewer for a Promotion Committee, Department of Philology,
University of Patras
January 2017 Insight Grant Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
June 2016 Book Proposal Reviewer, Palgrave Pivot
May 2015 Book Proposal Reviewer, Cambridge University Press
January 2013 – June 2013 External Reviewer for a Promotion Committee, Department of Philology,
University of Patras
December 2011 Reviewer, Proceedings volume for the International Conference on
Historical Linguistics Japan 2011
January 2011 Reviewer, Canada Research Chairs
May 2009 Book Proposal Reviewer, Cambridge University Press
January 2008 Reviewer, Conference Proceedings volume for ICLAVE 4
November 2006 Fact Checking, Language Files. 10th Edition. The Ohio State University
Press.
October 2005 – November 2005 Edited Volume Reviewer, Benjamins.
Membership in the Academic Community 2019. Canadian Linguistic Association
2001 – Current. Linguistic Society of America