March 2014 – present

UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA, Switzerland

Faculty of Letters, Department of Linguistics

Post-doctoral researcher  

Scientific Exchange Programme (Sciex-NMS) no. 12 203 (98 000 CHF), ‘Syntax and Semantics of Indefinite Direct Objects’, supervisors prof. dr. Alice ter Meulen (University of Geneva), prof. dr. Alexandra Cornilescu (University of Bucharest)

 Oct. 2011 – present

(on leave until Feb. 2015)

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, Romania

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Department of English

Assistant Professor

Feb. 2008 – Oct. 2011

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, Romania

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Department of English

Teaching Assistant

January 2014 – 2018

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, Romania

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Department of English

Consulting researcher

Project: Unité et diversité dans le marquage différentiel de l’objet,  Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques du CNRS, FR 2558, project coordinator Alexandru Mardale (SeDyl, UMR 8202 INALCO,

CNRS, IRD). Joint project on differential object marking across languages between several laboratories and research centers in Paris, (SeDyl, UMR 8202 INALCO, CNRS, IRD, LACITO 7170, CRLAO UMR 8563, HTL UMR 7597, LLF UMR 7110, LPP UMR 7018, SFL UMR 7023, LaCNAD EA 4092) and various researchers from the Romanian Academy, the University of Bucharest, Romania, University of Zürich, University of Göttingen, Radboud University of Nimègue

Oct. 2011 – Feb. 2014

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, Romania

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Department of English

Junior researcher

 Project: The Structure and the Interpretation of the Romanian Nominal Phrase within DRT: the Determiners, financed by UEFISCDI, no. PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0959, director prof. dr. Alexandra Cornilescu (University of Bucharest)

2008 - 2013

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, Romania

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Department of English

Junior researcher

 Project: Verben und Argumentstrukturen financed by the “Alexander von Humboldt” Foundation, and initiated by Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim together with the University of Bucharest (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the Department for Germanic Languages), director prof. dr. Stefan Engelberg (IDS Mannheim)

 July – August 2008

UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN, Belgium

Faculty of Letters

Junior researcher

 Project: Dual electric-acoustic speech processor with linguistic assessment tools for deaf individuals with residual low frequency hearing; financed by the European Union, FP7-SME-2007-1 project 222291 DUAL PRO (2008-2010), collaboration between University of Antwerpen (Belgium), University of Bucharest (Romania), Otoconsult (Belgia), Neurelec (France), Del Bo Tecnologia per L’ Ascolto (Italy), Leiden University (the Netherlands), CNRS-LPP (France), Paris XII (France), Universita Ca’Foscari (Italy).

January–November 2008

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, Romania

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Department of English

Junior researcher

Project: Interpretation Strategies for personal pronouns in Romanian: a linguistic and computational approach” - studying anaphora – the relation between a pronoun and its nominal antecedent; research framework: DRT, financed CNCSIS, IDEI UB no. 14,  director prof. dr. Alexandra Cornilescu

2012, 2013

2011-2013

May 2011

 May 2008

2004-2007

The European Institute of Romania, Bucharest

Lecturer

The Adventist  Theological Institute, Bucharest

Assistant professor

Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Erasmus visiting scholar

5 hours of courses and seminars on the syntax and semantics of the direct object in Romance and Germanic languages addressed to PhD and MA students

Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Erasmus visiting scholar

5 hours of courses and seminars on the order of constituents in Romanian and the syntax and semantics of the direct object in Romance addressed to PhD and MA students

FIDES Language Center, Bucharest

Teacher of English and French

Oct. 2005 –Nov. 2010

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, Romania

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Department of English

PhD in Philology, conferral date 24 Nov. 2010

Dissertation advisor: Alexandra Cornilescu

Dissertation title: Syntax and Interpretation of the Direct Object in Romance and Germanic Languages with an Emphasis on Romanian, German, Dutch and English, published 2011

Oct. 2004 – June 2005

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, Romania

Faculty of Letters

MA in Theoretical Linguistics (mean 9,91/ 10.00)

Courses:

Computational Linguistics, HPSG, 1st Order Logic, Predicate Logic, Lexical Semantics, Language Acqusition, Formal Languages, DRT 

Oct. 2000 – June 2004

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

BA, English (major)– French (minor)(final mean 9,75/ 10.00)

Courses:

English linguistics, literature and language proficiency French linguistics, literature and language proficiency German  language proficiency

Oct. 2003 – March 2004

UNIVERSITA CA’FOSCARI DI VENEZIA, ITALY

Erasmus student

11 course in linguistics and language proficiency (English, French, Italian and German) (66 ECTS, final mean:  29,73/ 30.00, three marks of ‘30 e lode’)

Sept. 1996 – June 2000

ST. SAVA NATIONAL COLLEGE, BUCHAREST

Baccalaureate diploma (final mean 9.69/ 10.00)

Specialization: Mathematics –Physics, English bilingual 

University of Bucharest

Courses in English Linguistics:

 The Syntax of Root Clauses (2^nd year BA, English Minor)

English Phonetics and Phonology (1st year BA, English Minor)

Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory (3rd year BA, English)

English Pragmatics (3rd year BA, English)

Seminars in English Linguistics

 English Phonetics and Phonology (1^st year, English Major & Minor)

Morphology (1^st year, English Major & Minor)

Syntax I and II (2^nd year, English Major & Minor)

Lexical Semantics (3^rd year English Major)

Pragmatics (3^rd   year, English Major Translators section, English Minor, Philology)

Old English (2^nd year, English Major)

Middle English (2^nd year, English Major)

Courses in English proficiency

 English Proficiency (MA level, C_1-2)

English Proficiency (BA level, English Major, B₂ – C₂)

Terminological Studies and specialized translations

(MA in Specialized Translations and Terminological Studies)

Ca’Foscari University

The European   Institute of Romania

The syntax and semantics of the direct object in Romance

and Germanic languages (5 hours, PhD and MA level)

Word order in Romanian Sentences and the Syntax of the Subject

(5 hours, PhD and MA level)

The Translation process (specialized translations)

Introduction to Trados (with Gigi Mihăiță)

TheTheological Adventist Institute

The syntax of root clauses

Phonetics and Phonology

English Proficiency

FIDES Language Center 

English Proficiency (A₁ – C₂)

Business English (A₁-B₂)

Preparation for CAE, TOEFL, IELTS Tests

March 2014– Feb. 2015

11th November 2011

Sciex CH-NMS, Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Geneva

“Irina Izverna - Tarabac”  Award for young outstanding linguists, granted by the Cultural Association “Irina Izverna –Tarabac și Irina Mavrodin[2]”

Oct. 2003 – March 2004

Erasmus grant, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Italy

March 2011 - present

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, Faculty of Philosophy

Coordinator of the OPEN MIND – MA program in Cognitive Sciences

- administrative support for home and visiting professors, and students

- organizing  2 conferences (Theory of Mind and the Social Design of Mind, 14-15 June 2013; New Directions in Cognitive Sciences, 20-21 June 2011)

- accreditation

2009 – February 2014

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST,

Faculty of Foreign Languages

Erasmus Coordinator

- support for Erasmus students at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

2005 - 2013

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Department of English

Member of the organizing board of the Annual International Conference of the English Department; Reviewer of abstracts submitted for the Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest

2009 - 2011

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Head of the Admissions Commission of the Faculty, 14 MA programs

Jan. – Nov. 2008

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Project management of research project Interpretation Strategies for personal pronouns in Romanian: a linguistic and computational approach-studying anaphora – the relation between a pronoun and its nominal antecedent; research framework: DRT.  CNCSIS[4] - IDEI UB no. 14, director prof. dr. Alexandra Cornilescu

11-13 November 2014

conference organizer of Romanian Fest: Workshop on Language Structure and Meaning. The view from Romanian, Faculty of Letters, University of Geneva, Switzerland

14-15 June 2013

conference organiser of Theory of Mind and the Social Design of Mind within the MA program to whose coordinator I am, Open Mind – MA program in Cognitive Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

June  2005-2013

organiser of the Annual International Conference of the English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest

12-13 December 2012

organiser of Workshop on Specificity, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest

20 – 21 June 2011

organiser of the Conference New Directions in Cognitive Sciences, University of Bucharest, which also included a special ceremony  in which professor Daniel Dennett (Tufts University) received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Rector of the University of Bucharest

2013

Assistant editor: Special number of Revue Roumaine de Linguistique Syntax and Semantics of Specificity, 2013 LVIII no. 4, proceedings Workshop on Specificity, December 2012, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest.

                           2011

Syntax and Interpretation of the Direct Object in Romance and Germanic Languages with an Emphasis on Romanian, German, Dutch and English. Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii Bucureşti.

2014a.

The Two-Object Construction in Romanian and German. In Ruxandra Cosma, Stefan Engelberg et al. (eds) Komplexe Argumentstrukturen. Kontrastive Untersuchungen zum Deutschen, Rumänischen und Englischen. (Konvergenz und Divergenz)Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.

2014b.

(to apear)

Towards an analysis of Clitic Doubling in Romanian. In Anna Bondaruk and Anna Prażmowska (eds.) Within language. Beyond theories. Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, vol. 1, chapter 10. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

2013a.

On the Inner Aspect of Predicates with Differentially Object Marked Internal Arguments. The case of Romanian. Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2013. Olomouc Modern Language Series, vol 3. Olomouc: Palacký University Press, p. 115-127

2013b.

On Scrambling and Differential Object Marking in German and Romanian – with a focus on indefinite direct objects. Embracing Multitudes of Meaning. Proceedings of the 11^th Conference on British and American Studies. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

2013c.

The two-object construction with the two objects in the Accusative. Limba română: variație sincronică, variație diacronică. București: Editura Universității din București, p. 1-91

2012

The Accusative morpheme –(y)I in Turkish and DOM in Romanian. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, vol XIV, no. 2. p. 57- 76

2010a.

Building and exploiting Romanian corpora for the study of  Differential Object Marking. Proceedings of  Exploitation of multilingual resources and tools for Central and (South) Eastern European Languages (http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/LrecWorkshop2010) (co-authored with Anca Dinu)

2010b.

Towards an Account of Differential Object  Marking in Romanian. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics 12 (1). p. 137- 158

2009a.

The Order of Constituents within the Romanian Sentence with a focus on the movement of the direct object in the VOS order. In Rodica Zafiu (ed.), Grammaticalization andPragmaticalization in Romanian. Bucureşti: EUB

2009b.

Sentence – level pronominal subjects in Romanian. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics 11 (1): 225-232. (co-authored with Florina Pagurschi)

2008a

Towards an Account of Romanian Pronominal Clitics. An Overview of Clitic Doubling. Analele Universităţii Bucureşti, Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 41-58.

2008b.

Unifying Focus. Analele Universităţii Spiru Haret X(10): 83-93.

2008c.

The Alternation Null-Overt in the Interpretation of  Pronouns in Discourse. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics 10 (1): 121-135. (co-authored with Florina Pagurschi)

2007a.

Sintaxa obiectului direct în română cu accent asupra ordinii cuvintelor în propoziție. O analiză a fenomenului de (short) scrambling ca deplasare a obiectului la stânga. Concepts trans- et interculturels Concepte trans- si interculturale Lingvistica, Bucureşti: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 145-164

2007b.

On the Nature of Romanian Pronominal Clitics. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics. 9 (1). p. 109-123

2007c.

Towards an Account of Romanian Pronominal Clitics. In Y. Catelly, S. Mazilu, F. Popa and D. Stoica (eds.), Limbă, cultură şi civilizaţie la începutul  mileniului al treilea, Bucureşti: Politehnica Press, 751-759.

2007d.

Towards a Unifying Account of Focus. In G. Alboiu, A.Avram, L. Avram and D. Isac (eds.), Pitar Moş: A Building with a view Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii Bucureşti.

2013

Luis López Indefinite Objects. Scrambling, Choice Functions and Differential Marking. In Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, vol XV no. 1

2011

Lovaas, O.I. Instruirea persoanelor cu întârzieri de dezvoltare. Tehnici de Intervenție de bază (Teaching Individuals with Developmental Delays. Basic Intervention Techniques), (București: Frontiera Publishing House, translation from English into Romanian)

2009

Matyszak, P. Fiii lui Caesar (The Sons of Caesar), (București: All Publishing House, translation from English into Romanian)

2009

Greer, J.M.    Enciclopedia societăților secrete și a istoriei ascunse (The Element  Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Hidden Hystory), (București: All Publishing House, translation from English into Romanian)

2008

Report Project Q1 (Collaborative Project FP7 – SME222291), University of Antwerpen, Belgium                                                  http://services.otoconsult.com/LogBook/Users/Documents/Reports,%20 Minutes,/ (joint report capturing the partial results in  the FP7-SME-2007-1 project 222291 DUAL PRO (Universiteit Antwerpen, 2008-2010): Dual electric acoustic speech processor with linguistic assessment tools for deaf individuals with residual low frequency hearing (Paricipants – Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgia  in collaboration with University of Bucharest (Romania), Otoconsult (Belgia), Neurelec (France), Del Bo Tecnologia per L’Ascolto (Italy), Leiden University (the Netherlands), CNRS-LPP (France), Paris XII (France), Universita Ca’Foscari (Italy))

14-18^th July 2014

The 13^th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; joint presentation ‘Salience before frequency in the early acquisition of German, English, Italian, and Romanian’ (together with Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Monika Boniecki (University of Vienna), Noemi di Pasquale (University of Palerno), Sabrina Noccetti (University of Pisa), Anastasia Dressler (Medical University of Vienna), Larisa Avram (University of Bucharest))

27-28^th June 2014

The RED 2014 Workshop on Indefinites in Discourse, University of Köln, Germany; presentation ‘Differentially Object Marked and Clitic Doubled Indefinite Direct Objects in Discourse. The case of Romanian.’

5-8^th June 2014

The international conference of the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, ACED 16, University of Buchares, Romania; presentation ‘Argument licensing and Differential Object Marking’

24-27^th March 2014

The CUSO Doctoral School Workshop, Ovronnaz, Switzerland; presentation (poster) ‘A DRT Analysis of Clitic Doubled and Pe marked DPs in Romanian’

25-26^th Nov. 2013

The Workshop on Balkan Romance Contacts, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy; presentation ‘Some Conditions on Differential Object Marking in Romanian’

14-16^th Nov. 2013

Linguistics Beyond and Within – International Linguistics Conference in Lublin 2013, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; presentation ‘Towards an analysis of Clitic Doubling in Romanian’

24-25 October 2013

Constructions of Identity VII Conference, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; ‘At the syntax-semantics interface’

25-26^th Sept. 2013

Integrare, Identitate, A Philippide Institute of Romanian Philology, Iași, Romania; presentation ‘Asupra marcării diferențiate a obiectelor directe nedefinite’

7-11^th Sept. 2013

Language, Individual and Society, Burgas, Bulgaria; presentation ‘The two-object Construction in Romanian’

6-8^th June 2013

Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium, Olomouc, The Czech Republic; presentation (poster) ‘On Scrambling and DOM in Romanian and German’ (presented on the 6^th of June)

6-8^th June 2013

The international conference of the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, ACED 15, University of Buchares, Romania; presentation ‘Points of Similarity between DOM in Romanian and Scrambling in German’ (presented on the 8^th of June)

19-20^th April 2013

Embracing Multitudes of Meaning of the Faculty of Letters, Transilvania University, Brașov, Romania; presentation ‘On Scrambling and Differential Object Marking with a focus on German and Romanian’

14-15^th Dec. 2012

The 12^th International Colloquium of the Linguistics Department, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, Romania; presentation ‘The Two-object construction with the  two objects in the Accusative’

12-13^th Dec. 2012

Workshop on Specificity, University of Bucharest, Romania; presentation ‘Specific Indefinites in Romance and Germanic languages: configurational languages vs. non-configurational languages’

7-8^th Dec. 2012

The Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, Romania; presentation ‘Two varieties of two-object   constructionsin Romanian’

31 May– 2  June 2012

The international conference of the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, ACED 14, University of Bucharest, Romania; presentation “Towards an Analysis of Romanian Indefinites”

9-10^th  Dec. 2011

The international conference organized by the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, Romania; presentation: “On the Interpretation of Differentially Marked vs. Unmarked Direct Objects in Romanian  - with an Emphasis on Romance and Germanic Languages”.

5-6^th  Nov. 2011    

The annual conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, Romania, presentation: “The Double Object Construction in German and English”

2-4^th  June 2011

The international conference of the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, Romania; presentation: “The Accusative morpheme ‘(-y)i’ in Turkish & the Differential  Object Marking in Romanian – a meeting point”

11-15^th  May  2011

The workshop unfolding within the research project Institutspartnerschaft Institut für Deutsche Sprache – Universität Bukarest, Sibiu, Romania;  presentation “Further Observations on the Double Object     Construction in Romanian, German andEnglish”

3-5^th  June 2010

The international conference of the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, ACED 13 University of Bucharest, Romania; presentation: ‘When Internal Properties of DPs Override Sentence Structure’

23rd May 2010

 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Valletta, Malta; joint presentation with Anca Dinu (University of Bucharest): ‘Building and Exploiting Romanian Corpora for the Study of Differential Object Marking’http://www.cphil.unihamburg.de/view/Main/LrecWorkshop2010

23-24^th  April 2010

The annual conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania; presentation ‘Differential Object Marking in Romanian. A DRT Approach.’

30^th  October 2009

The annual conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, Romania ‘Syntax and Interpretation of the Direct Object in Romanian’

4-6^th  June 2009

The international conference of the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, ACED 12, University of Bucharest, Romania presentation ‘Towards an Account of Differential Object Marking in Romanian’

30^th  Nov. 2008

Interpretation Strategies for personal pronouns in Romanian: a linguistic and computational approach  within the research project IDEI UB no 14, with the paper ‘The Alternation null-overt in the interpretation of pronouns in intra-sentential sentences’

7-8^th  Nov.  2008

The annual conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest with the paper: “The Interpretation of Null Subjects in Discourse”

3-4^th  Oct. 2008

 Gramaticalization şi pragmaticalization in Romanian, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, with the paper: ‘The Order of Constituents within the Romanian Sentence - with a focus on the movement of the direct object within the VOS word order’

5-7^th  June 2008

The international conference of the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, with the paper: ‘The Alternation Null-Overt in the Interpretation of Pronouns in  Discourse’

23^rd February 2008

Doctoral School Conference “Languages and Cultural Identities”, the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest with the  paper:  ‘The Direct Object in Focus’

26-27^th  Oct. 2007

 The annual conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest with the paper: ‘Towards an Account of Romanian Pronominal Clitics. An Overview of Clitic Doubling’

7-8^th  June 2007

The international conference of the Polytechnics University, Bucharest with the paper: ‘Accusative vs. Dative Clitics in Romanian’