Diane Massam
Adjunct Professor
Linguistics
- Contact:
- diane.massam@utoronto.ca
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- Credentials:
- Professor Emeritus (University of Toronto), PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1985)
- Area of expertise:
- Linguistic universals and language diversity; Syntactic and morphological theory; Niuean, Polynesian, Austronesian, English; Cross-linguistic variation, register variation, spoken English
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Bio
Diane Massam (Ph.D. MIT 1985) is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto, where she has also served as Chair. Her research is on syntax with a focus on the Niue language and on register in English. She has been an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and President of the Canadian Linguistics Association.
Selected publications
Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces
Niuean: Predicates and Arguments in an Isolating Language
The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity
"Extra be: The syntax of shared shell noun constructions in English" Language 93:121–152. 2017.
Reprint of Massam 2000 – “VSO and VOS: Aspects of Niuean Word Order” with accompanying discussion. In Richard Kayne, Raffaella Zanuttini and Thomas Leu (eds.) An annotated syntax reader: Lasting insights and questions, Wiley. pp. 463–481. 2013.
"Pseudo Noun Incorporation in Niuean", Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19:1:153–197. 2001.
"Cognate Objects as Thematic Objects" The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 35.2:161–190. 1990.