Thomas Leu, Université du Québec à Montréal

Research

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Latest funding

Pronouncing Pronouns : What pronominal variation tells us about the Human Language Faculty
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$59,800
The 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 51)
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$18,370
Morpheme uncertainty
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$61,539

All 3 grants and awards

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Pronouncing Pronouns : What pronominal variation tells us about the Human Language Faculty

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Newell, Heather

Keywords: Pronouns; Language Faculty; Cross-Linguistic patterns; Morphology; Syntax; Phonology; Phonology-Morphosyntax interface; Full vs Clitic forms; Cyclic derivation; Syllable Structure

$59,800

The 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 51)

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Leu, Thomas

Keywords: conference; theoretical linguistics; syntax; semantics; phonology; morphology; human language; cognition

$18,370

Morpheme uncertainty

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Leu, Thomas

Keywords: (1) Morphosyntax; (2) Universal Grammar; (3) Function words/morphemes; (4) Comparative linguistics; (5) Cross-linguistic comparability; (6) Signifiant/morph; (7) Inductive approach; (8) Submorphemic syntax; (9) Feature bundling

$61,539

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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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Leu, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "The 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 51)" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]