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Academic Credentials

Ph.D. (Linguistics, McGill University, 2000). Thesis: Mereology in Event Semantics - External Examiner: James Pustejovsky

M.A. (Linguistics, University of Toronto, 1993). Thesis: The Delineation of Paths

Publications

Pi, C.T. (2006) "Beyond the Isogloss: The Isograph in Dialect Topography," to appear in Canadian English in the Global Context, ed. Peter Avery, J. K. Chambers, Alexandra D'Arcy, Elaine Gold and Keren Rice. Special issue of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics 50 (2006). Forthcoming.

MacKeracher, M. & Pi, C.T. (2002) "A 'Porch' in Other Words," Crossing Borders 2001 Proceedings.

MacKeracher, M. & Pi, C.T. (2001) "Shades of Meaning in Dialect Topography: the Porch Variable," in 2001 Canadian Linguistics Association Proceedings.

Pi, C.T. (2001) "Canadians Telling Time: A Study in Dialect Topography," Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 18.

Pi, C.T. (1998) "Localistic Change vs. Change as Event Parts," in 1998 Canadian Linguistics Association Proceedings.

Pi, C.T. & Stewart, O.T. (1998) "Micro-Events in Two Serial Verb Constructions", in 1998 Semantics And Linguistic Theory Proceedings.

Pi, C.T. (1997) "Adjectival Modification at a Distance in English Noun Phrases", McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 12:2, p. 259-291.

Pi, C.T. (1995) "The Structure of English Iteratives," in 1995 Canadian Linguistics Association Proceedings.

Pi, C.T. (1993) "As For As For," in 1993 Canadian Linguistics Association Proceedings.

Pi, C.T. (1991) "The Retrogression of Retroflexion in Mandarin Speech," in Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 11, no. 1.