Egor Tsedryk, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Modern Languages and Classics

Cross-appointment with Linguistics  

Office: McNally North 420

Tel: (902) 420-5859

Fax: (902) 491-8694

E-mail: egor.tsedryk@smu.ca

Education:

Ph.D. (2006) University of Western Ontario

M.A. (1999) University of Western Ontario

B.A. (1997) Minsk State Linguistic University

Research interests: linguistic theory, syntax, language acquisition.

Recent publications:

• Tsedryk, Egor. 2010. Prolifération de comme dans la grammaire des

enfants dans le milieu francophone minoritaire. In Proceedings of the 2010 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, ed. Melinda Heijl, 15 pages. [Link]

• Tsedryk, Egor and Alexandra Tsedryk. 2009. Marquage casuel et acquisition de verbes locatifs en langue première. In Proceedings of the 2009 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, ed. Frederic Mailhot, 15 pages. [Link]

• Tsedryk, Egor. 2009. Fusion symétrique et alternances ditransitives. Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication, vol. 71. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, xiv + 197 pages. [Link]

• Tsedryk, Egor. 2008. Possesseurs datifs devant syntagmes prépositionnels. In Proceedings of the 2008 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, ed. Susie Jones, 15 pages. [Link]

• Tsedryk, Egor. 2006. The split verb as a source of morphological ergativity: The case of Russian and its northern dialects. In Ergativity: emerging issues, eds. Diane Massam, Alana Johns and Juvénal Ndayiragije. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 337- 363. [Link]

French courses:

• FREN 2201 Basic University French Level 1

• FREN 2202 Basic University French Level 2

• FREN 3331 French Review Grammar

• FREN 4335 Advanced Grammar 1

Cross-listed courses:

• FREN 3320 / LING 2321 French Phonetics

• FREN 3340 / LING 2341 Linguistic Study of French

• FREN 4440 / LING 4440 Canadian French: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Linguistics courses:

• LING 2330 Syntax

• LING 3330 Advanced Syntax

Honours theses supervised:

• Fortin, Annie (in progress). Redoublement ou topicalisation: le cas du français saguenéen.

• Spencer, Kali. 2010. Acquisition of case and pronoun Case errors: a study of children’s spontaneous speech in English.

• Nelson, Kristan. 2009. The syntax of fragments in children’s spontaneous speech.