I
am a Romanian born
New Zealander,
currently
working at the University of Reading, in Mark Pagel's
evolutionary biology and
applied statistics lab.
Previously,
I have worked
at the University of Auckland, mostly
in the Department
of Applied
Language Studies and Linguistics,
but also in the Department of Psychology,
for the
Austronesian
Database
Language
project, under the guidance of Prof.
Russell
Gray, and
the Centre for
Pacific Studies,
on the grammar and dictionary project for Takuu language,
under the guidance
of Prof.
Richard
Moyle. |
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My
doctorate: My Doctoral Thesis at
the
University
of Auckland, Auckland, New
Zealand concerns the
organisation
of syntax in unplanned, spoken New Zealand English. In particular, the
notion of
subordination was
investigated by exploring
a corpus of
spoken NZ English, compiled by
the linguistics
research group from the University
of Victoria, in Wellington. One
family of constructions which
involves
the phenomenon of subordination is that of clefts. The thesis
investigated demonstrative clefts, with
respect
to their syntactic and
discourse related properties, but also it-clefts and wh-clefts. Aside
from
contributions to existing knowledge regarding the organisation of
grammar in spoken discourse, it is
hoped that this work will also make
a contribution to existing theories of (first) language acquisition and
to current methods of language teaching. You can find a short abstract here
(HTML
page). My work
was done under the guidance of Prof.
J. Miller and Assoc.
Prof.
F. Lichtenberk. |
| With
Anna at our
graduation, Auckland Town Hall |
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