David Heap, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador: An International Research Partnership
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$769,918
Linguistic symposium on romance languages 44
SSHRC · 2013 · Co-investigator
$11,472
Dialectal micro variation in Malagasy
SSHRC · 2011 · Co-investigator
$133,250

No publications available.

Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador: An International Research Partnership

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Grants

Keywords: El Salvador; civil war; historical memory; justice; music; testimonies; refugees; massacre survivors; environmental reparation; intergenerational education; mental health; community-based and participatory research; commemoration; memorials; architecture

$769,918

Linguistic symposium on romance languages 44

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Paul, Ileana

Keywords: romance linguistics

$11,472

Dialectal micro variation in Malagasy

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Paul, Ileana

Keywords: linguistics; syntax; morphology; dialectal variation

$133,250

Nouveaux corpus de français oral : méthodologies et perspectives

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Heap, David

Keywords: dialectology; french; language variation; corpus linguistics

$22,484

International collaborative publication of the Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009International Opportunities Fund

Principal investigators: Heap, David

Keywords: dialectology; syntax; morphology; Spain; Portugal; Iberian Peninsula; geographic information systems

$69,300

Confronting linguistic theory with non-standard Hispanic pronoun systems

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Heap, David

Keywords: pronominal morphology; morpho-syntax; hispanic dialectology; linguistic atlas; Spanish; Portuguese; Catalan

$62,313

From linguistic geography to feature geometry

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Heap, David

Keywords: linguistic variation; romance dialectology; morphology; pronoungs; feature geometry

$95,279

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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