Faculty & Staff

English Language and Literature
Associate Professor
Coordinator Linguistics Program
Phone: 902-420-5707
Office: MN305
Email: daniel.hall@smu.ca

Research Website

Overview

Daniel Currie Hall (Ph.D. University of Toronto, 2007) is a theoretical linguist whose research focuses on the organization and interpretation of distinctive features and the contrasts they mark, in both phonology and morphosyntax. Before coming to Saint Mary’s in 2011, he taught at the University of Toronto and at Queen’s University, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently serving as the coordinator of the Program in Linguistics and as one of the editors of the journal Phonology, published by Cambridge University Press.

Publications

Co-edited Books

Bjorkman, Bronwyn M. & Daniel Currie Hall, eds. 2020. Contrast and representations in syntax. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Recent journal articles and book chapters: 

• Hall, Daniel Currie. 2023. Contrast and content in phonological features: Substance use in moderation. In Primitives of Phonological Structure, edited by Florian Breit, Bert Botma, Marijn van ’t Veer, & Marc van Oostendorp, 108–130. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Dresher, B. Elan & Daniel Currie Hall. 2022. Developments Leading Towards Generative Phonology. In The Oxford history of phonology, edited by B. Elan Dresher & Harry van der Hulst, 372–395. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Cowper, Elizabeth & Daniel Currie Hall. 2022. Morphosemantic Features in Universal Grammar: What We Can Learn from Marshallese Pronouns and Demonstratives. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 67.3: 242–266. doi:10.1017/cnj.2022.25
• Dresher, B. Elan & Daniel Currie Hall. 2021. The Road Not Taken: The Sound Pattern of Russian and the History of Contrast in Phonology. Journal of Linguistics 57.2: 405–444. doi: 10.1017/S0022226720000377
• Cowper, Elizabeth, Daniel Currie Hall, Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, Rebecca Tollan, & Neil Banerjee. 2021. Investigating the Past of the Futurate Present. In Syntactic features and the limits of syntactic change, edited by Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson & Thórhallur Eythórsson, 210–237. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Bjorkman, Bronwyn M., Elizabeth Cowper, Daniel Currie Hall, & Andrew Peters. 2019. Person and Deixis in Heiltsuk Pronouns. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 64.4: 574–591. doi: 10.1017/cnj.2019.13
• Cowper, Elizabeth, Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, Daniel Currie Hall, Rebecca Tollan, & Neil Banerjee. 2019. Illusions of Transitive Expletives in Middle English. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 22.3: 211–246. doi: 10.1007/s10828-019-09110-z
• Cowper, Elizabeth & Daniel Currie Hall. 2019. Scope Variation in Contrastive Hierarchies of Morphosyntactic Features. In Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Acquisition, edited by David W. Lightfoot & Jonathan Havenhill, 27–41. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
• Hall, Daniel Currie. 2017. Contrastive Specification in Phonology. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, edited by Mark Aronoff. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.26
• Cowper, Elizabeth & Daniel Currie Hall. 2017. The Rise of Contrastive Modality in English: A Neoparametric Account. Linguistic Variation 17.1: 68–97. doi: 10.1075/lv.17.1.04cow
• Hall, Daniel Currie & Kathleen Currie Hall. 2016. Marginal Contrasts and the Contrastivist Hypothesis. Glossa 1.1.50: 1–23. doi: 10.5334/gjgl.245