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Diane Massam

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Professor Emeritus/EmeritaDepartment of LinguisticsUniversity of Toronto

Diane Massam

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Department of Linguistics

Faculty of Arts and Science

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
No publications on record.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (10 SSHRC), most recently in 2015.

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Heavy predicates and split arguments in Niuean
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$98,843
NELS 42: Diversity and Universals: The role of typology and linguistic universals in linguistic theory
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$12,015
VSO Predication and ergative argument structure
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$72,675

All 11 grants and awards

Heavy predicates and split arguments in Niuean

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Massam, Diane

Keywords: syntax; morphology; argument structure; causatives; applicatives; resultatives; null arguments; case theory; passives; Austronesian languages; Polynesian languages; Niuean

$98,843

NELS 42: Diversity and Universals: The role of typology and linguistic universals in linguistic theory

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Massam, Diane

Keywords: theoretical linguistics; generative linguistics; linguistic universals; linguistic diversity; linguistic typology; syntax; phonology; semantics; phonetics; morphology; aboriginal languages of Canada

$12,015

VSO Predication and ergative argument structure

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Massam, Diane

Keywords: grammar; syntax; morphology; semantics; argument structure; case; Austronesian linguistics; Polynesian linguistics

$72,675

Workshop on Mass and Count Nouns

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Massam, Diane

Keywords: mass; count; noun phrases; syntax; semantics; number

$6,000

Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics Conference / Workshop on Clitics / Roundtable on Slavic Language Standardization and Maintenance

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Massam, Diane

Keywords: linguistics; formal linguistics; Slavic languages; clitics; language standardization; language maintenance

$14,590

Featural variation in the left periphery of a predicate first language

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Massam, Diane

Keywords: syntactic theory; left periphery; predicate-initial; phrase structture; word order; austronesian syntax; polynesian syntax

$85,829

Aspects of ergativity in Austronesian

Co-investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Paul, Ileana

Keywords: syntax; ergativity; Malagasy; Austronesian; Niuean

$101,593

Workshop on Ergativity

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Massam, Diane

Keywords: syntactic theory; ergative case systems; ergativity; argument structure; case and agreement systems

$3,350

Issues in Niuean syntax

Principal investigatorSSHRC2001Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Massam, Diane

Keywords: syntax; morphology; oceanic grammar; niuean grammar; ergativity; phrase structure; clitics; raising constructions; lexicon; case; minimalist syntax; theoretical linguistics; structure;

$42,900

Issues in Austronesian Formal Linguistics with a Special Focus on Reduplication Toronto ON 1999/04/23 - 1999/04/25

Principal investigatorSSHRC1998Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Massam, Diane

Keywords: Austronesian; linguistics; reduplication; syntax; phonology; comparati ve linguistics

$4,350

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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