Curriculum Vitae Dr. Nancy Hedberg - SFU

Nancy Hedberg

Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science

Department of Linguistics Simon Fraser University

8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada

[email protected], www.sfu.ca/~hedberg

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1990 PhD, Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dissertation: “Discourse Pragmatics and Cleft Sentences in English”

Advisor: Jeanette K. Gundel. Co-Advisor: Michael Kac. Committee Members: Gerald Sanders, Betsy Barnes (French), Randy Fletcher (Psychology)

1987 LSA Fellowship, LSA Summer Institute, Stanford University, California

1986-87 Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota

1985 LSA Fellowship, LSA Summer Institute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York

1983-89 Predoctoral Traineeship, Center for the Study of Human Learning, University of Minnesota

1980 Certificat d'Études Françaises, L'Institut d'Études Françaises pour Étudiants Étrangers, Aix-en-Provence, France

1979 BA, Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

________________________________________________________________________________________________ Employment History at Academic Institutions

Sept. 2012 - Current Professor, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Simon Fraser University.

Sept. 2008 - Current Associate Member, Cognitive Science Program, Simon Fraser University

Sept. 2001 - Aug. 2012 Associate Professor, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Simon Fraser University.

Sept. 1990 - Aug. 2001 Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Simon Fraser University.

Sept. 1989 - Aug. 1990 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

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Publications

Edited Books

Gundel, Jeanette K. and Nancy Hedberg (eds.) 2008. Reference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Oxford University Press, New Directions in Cognitive Science.

Hedberg, Nancy and Ron Zacharski (eds.). 2007. The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface: Essays in Honor of Jeanette K. Gundel. John Benjamins, Pragmatics and Beyond New Series.

Refereed Journal Articles

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa, and Emrah Görgülü. 2017. “The Meaning and Intonation of Positive Yes-No Questions in American English: A Corpus Study.” Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 13(2). 1-48.

Chang, Daniel, Nancy Hedberg, and Yue Wang. 2016. “Effects of Musical Experience on Categorization of Lexical and Melodic Tones.” Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 139. 2432-2447.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. 2012. “Underspecification of Cognitive Status in Reference Production: Some Empirical Predictions.” Topics in Cognitive Science. 4(2). 249-268.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2010. “Centering and Noun Phrase Realization in Kaqchikel Mayan.” Journal of Pragmatics 42(7): 1829-1841.

Hedberg, Nancy and Richard C. DeArmond. 2009. “On Complements and Adjuncts.” Snippets 19. 11-12.

Han, Chung-hye and Nancy Hedberg. 2008. “Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts: A Tree-Adjoining Grammar Analysis.” Journal of Semantics 25. 345-380.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. 2001 "Cognitive Status and Definite Descriptions in English: Why Accommodation is Unnecessary." English Language and Linguistics 5. 273-295.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2000. “The Referential Status of Clefts.” Language 76. 891-920.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. 2000. “Status Cognitif et Forme des Anaphoriques Indirects.” Verbum 22. 79-102.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. 1993. “Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse.” Language. 69.274-307.

Reprinted Journal Articles

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski. 2019. "Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expression in Discourse." In Jeanette K. Gundel and Barbara Abbott, eds. The Oxford Handbook on Reference. 67-99. Oxford University Press. Reprinted from Language 69, 274-307, 1993.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski. 2019. "Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expression in Discourse." In Linguistic Society of America, The Language Anthology, Volume III, The Best of Language 1986-2016. Reprinted from Language 69, 274-307, 1993.


Refereed Book Chapters

Hedberg, Nancy, Jeanette K. Gundel, and Kaja Borthen. 2019. "Different Senses of 'Referential'." In Gundel, Jeanette K. and Barbara Abbott, eds. The Oxford Handbook on Reference. Oxford University Press. 100-116

Hedberg, Nancy. 2018. “A Cognitive Approach to Referentiality Marking in a St'át'imcets Story.” In Matthewson,Lisa, Erin Guntly and Michael Rochemont (eds.). Wa7 xweysás i nqwal’utteníha i ucwalmícwa: He loves the people’s languages. Essays in honour of Henry Davis. Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics vol. 6. 559-566.

Gundel, Jeanette K. and Nancy Hedberg. 2016. “Reference and Cognitive Status: Implicature and Typology.” In Ferrnandez-Vest, M. M. Jocelyne and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., eds. Information Structure and Spoken Language in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Mouton de Gruyter. 33-53.

Hedberg, Nancy and Noureddine Elouazizi. 2015. “Epistemic Parenthetical Verbs, Phrasing and Focus.” In Schneider, Stefan, Julie Glikman and Mathieu Avanzi, eds. Parenthetical Verbs. Berlin/Munich/Boston: Walter De Gruyter. 225-256.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2013. “Multiple Focus and Cleft Sentences.” In Hartmann, Katharina and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.) Cleft Structure. John Benjamins, Linguistik Aktuell series. 227-250.

Hedberg, Nancy and Lorna Fadden. 2007. “The Discourse Function of It-Clefts, Wh-Clefts and Reverse Wh-Clefts in English.” In Hedberg, Nancy and Ron Zacharski (eds.), The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface: Essays in Honor of Jeanette K. Gundel. John Benjamins Pragmatics and Beyond New Series. 49-76.

Hedberg, Nancy and Juan M. Sosa. 2007. “The Prosody of Topic and Focus in Spontaneous English Dialogue.” In Lee, Chungmin, Matthew Gordon and Daniel Büring (eds.). Topic and Focus: Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 82. Dordrecht: Springer. 101-120.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2006. “Topic-Focus Controversies.” In Molnár, Valeria and Susanne Winkler (eds.) The Architecture of Focus. Studies in Generative Grammar 82. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 373-397.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski. 2005. “Pronouns without NP antecedents: How do we know when a pronoun is referential?” In Branco, Antonio, Tony McEnery, and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, Cognitive and Computational Modelling. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 351-364.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1996. “Word Order and Cognitive Status in Mandarin Discourse,” In Fretheim, Thorstein and Jeanette Gundel, (eds), Referent/Context Accessibility, Pragmatics and Beyond series, John Benjamins. 179-192.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1993. “On the Subject-Predicate Structure of Pseudoclefts.” In Eid, Mushira and Gregory Iverson, (eds.) Principles and Prediction: The Analysis of Natural Language. Papers in Honor of Jerry Sanders. John Benjamins, pp. 119-134.

Book Reviews

Hedberg, Nancy. 2013. “Betty J. Birner, Introduction to Pragmatics. “Language 89. 953-957.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2010. “Laurel J. Brinton, The Comment Clause in English: Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development.” World Englishes 29(3). 442-445.


Conference Proceedings (Invited)

Hedberg, Nancy. 2014. “Applying the Givenness Hierarchy: Methodological Issues.” Workshop on Information Structure in Austronesian Languages. Research Institute of Culture and Language in Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski. 2011. “Underspecification of Cognitive Status in Reference Production: The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface”. Proceedings of the Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting.

Refereed Conference Proceedings (Entire paper refereed)

Hedberg, Nancy and Juan M. Sosa. 2011. "On the Phonetics of Final Pitch Accents in American English Polar Questions." Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa, Emrah Görgülü, and Morgan Mameni. 2010. "The Prosody and Meaning of Wh-questions in American English". Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, Illinois.

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa and Emrah Görgülü. 2008. "Early and Late Nuclei in Yes-No Questions: Tails or High Rises?" Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008. Campinas, Brazil.

Hedberg, Nancy, Jeanette K. Gundel. and Ron Zacharski. 2007. "Directly and Indirectly Anaphoric Demonstrative and Personal Pronouns in Newspaper Articles". Proceedings of the 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium, Lisbon, Portugal. 31-36.

Han, Chung-hye and Nancy Hedberg. 2006. "A Tree-Adjoining Grammar Analysis of the Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts". Proceedings of TAG+8, Sydney, Australia. 33-40.

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa and Lorna Fadden. 2006. "Tonal Constituents and Meanings of Yes-No Questions in American English." Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006. Dresden, Germany. 386-389.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski. 2004. "Demonstrative Pronouns in Natural Discourse". Proceedings of the 5th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, S. Miguel, Portugal. 81-86.

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa and Lorna Fadden. 2004. "Meanings and Configurations of Questions in English". Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan.

Hedberg, Nancy and Juan M. Sosa. 2003 "Pitch Contours in Negative Sentences." Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Barcelona, Spain.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski. 2002. "Pronouns without Explicit Antecedents: How Do We Know When a Pronoun is Referential?" Proceedings of the Fourth Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium. 87-92.

Hedberg, Nancy and Juan Manuel Sosa. 2002. '"The Prosody of Questions in Natural Discourse." Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2002. 375-378.

Refereed Conference Proceedings (Abstract refereed)

Elouazizi, Noureddine and Nancy Hedberg. 2014. “Subjects and the Structural Licensing of Parenthetical Verb Phrases in Moroccan Arabic.” Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.


Han, Chung-hye, Noureddine Elouazizi, Christina Galeano, Emrah Görgülü, Nancy Hedberg, Jennifer Hinnell, Meghan Jeffrey, Kyeongmin Kim and Susannah Kirby. 2012. “Processing Strategies and Resumptive Pronouns in English.” Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 30).

Hedberg, Nancy and Juan M. Sosa. 2011 "The Meaning of English Questions with Non-Canonical Intonation". Proceedings of the International Seminar on Prosodic Interfaces, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Hedberg, Nancy and David Potter. 2010. "Equative and Predicational Copulas in Thai." Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 36), University of California at Berkeley.

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa, Emrah Görgülü, and Morgan Mameni. 2010. "Prosody and Pragmatics of Wh-Interrogatives." Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association.

Hedberg, Nancy, Emrah Görgülü, and Morgan Mameni. 2009. "Definiteness and Specificity in Turkish and Persian." Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association.

DeArmond, Richard C. and Nancy Hedberg. 2004. "More Issues on the Argument Structure of Primary Complements." Proceedings of the 2003 Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting.

Hedberg, Nancy and Richard C. DeArmond, 2003. "On the Argument Structure of Primary Complements." Proceedings of the 2002 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2002. "The Prosody of Contrastive Topic and Focus in Spoken English." Pre-proceedings of the Workshop on Information Structure in Context, IMS, University of Stuttgart. 141-152.

DeArmond, Richard and Nancy Hedberg. 2000. "The Configuration of Primary and Secondary Complements." Proceedings of the 2000 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association.

Hedberg, Nancy and Sandra Dueck. 1999. "Cakchiquel Reference and Centering Theory." Proceedings of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1999. "Topic-Comment Clefts and Clefted Even/Also Phrases." Proceedings of the 1999 Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting.

Hedberg, Nancy and Richard DeArmond. 1999. "On Nominal Complements and Adjuncts." Proceedings of the 1999 Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting.

DeArmond, Richard and Nancy Hedberg. 1998. "On Complements and Adjuncts", Proceedings of the 1998 Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting. 95-106.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. 1995. "Prosodic Tune and Information Structure. In Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting. 215-223.

Hedberg, Nancy and Sea-Eun Jhang. 1994. "Clefts and Pseudoclefts in Korean and Mandarin." Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting. 247-256.

Hedberg, Nancy 1993. "Double Focus It-Clefts," Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting. 311-322.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1992. "Referential Expletives and the Extraposition Analysis of Clefts," in M. Bernstein, ed., Proceedings of the 1992 Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Cornell University.


Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. 1990. "Givenness, Implicature and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse." In M. Meacham, et al, eds. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Parasession on the Legacy of Grice, University of California at Berkeley, pp. 442-453.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. 1989. "Givenness, Implicature and Demonstrative Expressions in English Discourse." In R. Graczyk, et al, eds., Papers from the 25th Annual Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: Parasession on Language in Context. University of Chicago, pp. 89-103.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski. 1988. "On the Generation and Interpretation of Demonstrative Expressions." In D. Vargha, ed., Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, John von Neumann Society for Computing Sciences: Budapest, Hungary, pp. 216-221.

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Conferences Presentations and Invited Talks

Invited Conference Presentations

Gerdts, Donna and Nancy Hedberg. 2020 “Discourse Functions of Hul’q’umi’num’ Demonstratives, International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, University of British Columbia, August 13-15, 2020. (remote),

Hedberg, Nancy. 2018. “Givenness Marking in an English Spoken Corpus”. Keynote speaker (with Hagit Borer, Peter Culicover, and Valéria Molnar) Given! A Workshop to Celebrate the Life and Work of Michael Rochemont. University of British Columbia, December 5-6, 2018.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2015. “The Meaning of Non-Canonical Question Intonation in American English." Keynote speaker (with Sigrid Beck). Workshop on the Prosody and Meaning of (Non-)Canonical Questions across Languages.” German Linguistics Society workshop Leipzig, Germany, March 4-6, 2015.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2014. Discussant. Panel on cleft sentences in Salish languages. Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 8). University of British Columbia. May 16-18, 2014.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2013. "Applying the Givenness Hierarchy: Methodological issues." Keynote speaker. Workshop on Information Structure in Austronesian Languages. Research Institute of Culture and Language in Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, December 13-15, 2013. (remote)

Hedberg, Nancy. 2008. "English Clefts and Information Structure." Keynote speaker (with Marcel den Dikken, David Adger). Workshop on Clefts, the Center for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany, November 28-29, 2008.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2007. "Yes-No Questions, Information Structure and Prosody." Keynote speaker (with Manfred Krifka, Rosanna Sornicola). LIPP Symposium on Clause Syntax, Information Structure, and Discourse Pragmatics, Munich, Germany, June 21-22, 2007.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2002. "Topic-Focus Controversies." Workshop Informationsstruktur-Kontrastivt 2002. Lund University, Sweden. December 6-8, 2002.


Jeanette K. Gundel, Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. 2000. "Definiteness, Accommodation and Cognitive Status." Conference on Linguistics and the English Language, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, Toulouse, France, August 2000.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1999. "English it-Clefts and Mandarin shi...de Constructions." Workshop on the Discourse Function of Clefts; Humboldt University, Berlin, October 1999.

Refereed Conference Presentations and Posters

Hedberg, Nancy. 2021. “Revisiting the Contrastive Nature of English Informative-Presupposition Clefts.” Paper to be presented at the International Workshop on the Expression of Contrast and the Annotation of Information Struture in Corpora.” Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, November 18-19, 2021. (remote)

Gerdts, Donna B. and Nancy Hedberg. 2020. “Demonstratives in Hul’q’umi’num’ Discourse.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA 2020). New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2-5, 2020.

Gerdts, Donna B. and Nancy Hedberg. 2018. “Deixis meets Discourse: An Analysis of the Halkomelem Determiner System.” Paper presented at the Discourse Functions of Demonstratives Workshop. Oslo, Norway. June 14-15, 2018.

Gerdts, Donna B., Zachary Gilkison, and Nancy Hedberg. 2018. “Determiners, Deixis, and Discourse in Hul'q'um'inum'.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan, May 31-June 1, 2018

Hedberg, Nancy and Patricia Schneider-Zioga. 2015. "Predication, Specification and Information Structure in Kinande." Poster presented at Generative Linguistics in the Old World Colloquium (GLOW 38), Paris, France, April 15-18, 2015.

Schneider-Zioga, Patricia and Nancy Hedberg. 2015. "Predication and Specification in Kinande". Poster presented at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 33), Vancouver, British Columbia, March 27-29, 2015.

Elouazizi, Noureddine and Nancy Hedberg. 2014. "Subjects and the structural licensing of parenthetical verb phrases in Moroccan Arabic". Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. April 10-13, 2014.

Elouazizi, Noureddine, Maite Taboada and Nancy Hedberg. 2013. “Ostensive Demonstratives in Multimodal Contexts.” International Congress of Linguists. Geneva, Swizterland, July 22-27, 2013. Theme: The Language-Cognition Interface.

Han, Chung-hye, Mathieu Dovan, Noureddine Elouazizi, Nancy Hedberg, Meghan Jeffrey, Kyeong-min Kim, and Keir Moulton. 2013. “A Self-paced Reading Study of Resumptive Relative Clauses in English.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Victoria, B.C. June 1-3, 2013.

Elouazizi, Noureddine and Nancy Hedberg. 2012. “A Derivational Analysis of the Syntax of Parenthetical Verb Phrases in English”, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Waterloo, May 26-28, 2012.

Hedberg, Nancy and Noureddine Elouazizi. 2012. “Epistemic Parenthetical Verbs and Association with Focus”. Paper presented at the Parenthetical Verbs conference, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre – La Défense, France, May 24-26, 2012.


Han, Chung-hye, Susannah Kirby, Marina Dykanova, Noureddine Elouazizi, Christina Galeano, Emrah Görgülü, Nancy Hedberg, Jennifer Hinnell, Meghan Jeffrey, and Kyeongmin Kim. 2012. "Processing Strategies and Resumptive Pronouns in English." Poster presented at the West Coast Conference on Linguistics (WCCFL 30). University of California Santa Cruz, April 13-15, 2012.

Han, Chung-hye, Susannah Kirby, Marina Dykanova, Noureddine Elouazizi, Christina Galeano, Emrah Görgülü, Nancy Hedberg, Jennifer Hinnell, and Meghan Jeffrey. 2012. “Subject-Object Asymmetry in English Resumption.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, Oregon, January 5-8, 2012.

Hedberg, Nancy and Juan M. Sosa. 2011. "The Meaning of English Questions with Non-Canonical Intonation". Presented at the International Seminar on Prosodic Interfaces, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, November 25-26, 2011.

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa and Emrah Görgülü. 2011. On the Meaning of Noncanonical Question Intonation". Poster presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP-2): Prosody in Context. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, September 23-25, 2011.

Hedberg, Nancy and Juan M. Sosa. 2011. "On the phonetics of final pitch accents in American English polar questions." Oral presentation. The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 17-21, 2011.

Hedberg, Nancy and Morgan Mameni. 2010. "The Semantic Function of Rising Wh-Questions". Paper presented at the Meeting of Semanticists Active in Canada (MOSAIC 2). McGill University, Montreal, Québec, June 1, 2010.

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa, Emrah Görgülü, and Morgan Mameni. 2010. "Prosody and Pragmatics of Wh-Interrogatives." Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, May 29-31, 2010.

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa, Emrah Görgülü, and Morgan Mameni. 2010. "The Prosody and Meaning of Wh-questions in American English". Poster presented at Speech Prosody 2010. Chicago, Illinois, May 11-14, 2010.

Hedberg, Nancy and David Potter. 2010. "Equative and Predicational Copulas in Thai." Paper presented at the Berkeley Linguistics Society. BLS 36, University of California at Berkeley, Feb. 6-7, 2010.

Hedberg, Nancy, Emrah Görgülü, and Morgan Mameni. 2009. "More on Definiteness and Specificity in English, Turkish and Persian." Paper presented at MOSAIC (Meeting of Semanticists Active in Canada). Ottawa, Ontario, May 26, 2009.

Hedberg, Nancy, Emrah Görgülü, and Morgan Mameni. 2009. "Defining Specificity: English, Turkish and Persian." Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Ottawa, Ontario, May 23-25, 2009.

Han, Chung-hye and Nancy Hedberg. 2008. Continuous Discontinuity in It-Clefts. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, University of British Columbia, May 31-June 2, 2008.

Nancy Hedberg, Juan M. Sosa and Emrah Gorgulu. 2008. "Early and Late Nuclei in Yes-No Questions: Tails or High Rises?." Poster presented at Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil, May 6-9, 2008.


Sosa, Juan M. and Nancy Hedberg. 2008. Semántica y Entonación de las Preguntas Absolutas del Ingles. ("Semantics and Intonation of Yes-No Questions in English"). Paper presented at the XX Jornadas Lingüisticas de La Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina (ALFAL), Caracas, Venezuela, March 6-9, 2008.

Nancy Hedberg and Malcah Yaeger-Dror. 2008. The effect of informational and interactive factors on the prosodic prominence of negation. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 3-6, 2008.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2007. "Centering and Zero Pronouns in Kaqchikel Mayan". Panel on Reference, Tenth International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, July 9-14, 2007.

Hedberg, Nancy, Ron Zacharski, and Jeanette K. Gundel. 2007. "Directly and Indirectly Anaphoric Demonstrative and Personal Pronouns in Newspaper Articles". Poster presented at the 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium, Lagos, Portugal, March 29-30, 2007.

Han, Chung-hye and Nancy Hedberg. 2006. "A Tree-Adjoining Grammar Analysis of the Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts." Oral Presentation. TAG+8 Workshop. Sydney, Australia, July 15-17, 2006.

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa, and Lorna Fadden. 2006. "Tonal Constituents and Meanings of Yes-No Questions in American English. Poster presented at Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany, May 2-5, 2006.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski. 2004. "Demonstrative Pronouns in Natural Discourse". Paper presented at the 5th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, S. Miguel, Portugal, September 2004.

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa and Lorna Fadden. 2004. "Meanings and Configurations of Questions in English". Poster presented at Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan, March 2004.

Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa and Lorna Fadden. 2003. "The Intonation of Contradictions in American English." Pragmatics and Prosody. North West Conference on Linguistics, University of Southern Lancashire, Preston, England, November 2003.

Hedberg, Nancy and Juan M. Sosa. 2003. "Pitch Contours in Negative Sentences." Poster presented at the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2003, Barcelona, Spain, August 2003.

DeArmond, Richard C. and Nancy Hedberg, 2003. "More Issues on the Argument Structure of Primary Complements." The Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting, Halifax, June 2003.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2002. "The Prosody of Contrastive Topic and Focus in Spoken English." Workshop on Information Structure in Context. IMS, Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany, Nov. 15-16, 2002.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. 2002. "Pronouns Without Explicit Antecedents: How Do We Know When a Pronoun is Referential?". The Fourth Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC-4). Lisbon, Portugual. Sept. 18-20, 2002.

Hedberg, Nancy and Richard C. DeArmond. 2002. "On the Argument Structure of Primary Complements." Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, May 25-28, 2002.

Hedberg, Nancy and Juan Manuel Sosa. 2002. "The Prosody of Questions in Natural Discourse." Speech Prosody 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France, April 11-13, 2002.


Hedberg, Nancy and Juan M. Sosa. 2001. "The Prosodic Structure of Topic and Focus in Spontaneous English Dialogue." Topic and Focus: A Workshop on Intonation and Meaning. University of California, Santa Barbara, July 20-21, 2001.

Sosa, Juan Manuel and Nancy Hedberg. 2001. "The Prosody of Topic and Focus in Spanish." Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXXI. University of Illinois at Chicago, April 20-22, 2001.

DeArmond, Richard and Nancy Hedberg. 2000. "The Configuration of Primary and Secondary Complements." Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, May 2000.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2000. "Cakchiquel Reference, Centering Theory and the Givenness Hierarchy." Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, January 2000.

Hedberg, Nancy and Richard DeArmond. 1999. "On Nominal Complements and Adjuncts." Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, June 1999.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1999. "Topic-Comment Clefts and Clefted Even/Also Phrases." Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, June 1999.

Hedberg, Nancy and Sandra Dueck. 1999. "Cakchiquel Reference and Centering Theory." Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, University of British Columbia, March 1999.

DeArmond, Richard and Nancy Hedberg. 1998. "On Complements and Adjuncts." Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, June 1998.

Gundel, Jeanette, Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski. 1997. "Topic-Comment Structure, Syntactic Structure and Prosodic Tune". Workshop on Prosody and Grammar in Interaction, University of Helsinki, Finland, August 1997.

Nancy Hedberg and Nathalie Schapansky. 1996. "Pragmatic Functions and Syntactic Positions of Preverbal Noun Phrases: A Comparative Study of Breton and Mayan." Panel presentation. Fifth International Pragmatics Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, July 1996.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski. 1996. "Cognitive Status, Concreteness and the Form of Indirect Anaphora." Indirect Anaphora Workshop, Lancaster, England, July 1996.

Hedberg, Nancy and Nathalie Schapansky. 1996. "A Referentiality Constraint on the Preverbal Position in Breton." Linguistic Society of America, San Diego, California, January 1996.

Hedberg, Nancy, Jeanette K. Gundel and Ron Zacharski. 1995. "Complex Topics and Prosodic Tune." Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 22-23, 1995.

Hedberg, Nancy, Jeanette K. Gundel and Ron Zacharski 1995. "Prosodic Tune and Information Structure." Canadian Linguistics Association, Université de Québec à Montréal, June 1995.

Hedberg, Nancy and Sea-Eun Jhang. 1994. "Clefts and Pseudoclefts in Korean and Mandarin." Canadian Linguistics Association, University of Calgary, June 1994.

Nancy Hedberg. 1993. "Word Order and Cognitive Status in Mandarin Discourse,” Panel on Referent/Context Accessibility, Fourth International Pragmatics Conference, Kobe, Japan, July 1993.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1993. "Double Focus It-Clefts." Canadian Linguistics Association, Concordia University, Ottawa, May 1993.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1992. "Referential Expletives and the Extraposition Analysis of Clefts." Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo, November 1992.


Hedberg, Nancy. 1991. "On the Subject-Predicate Structure of Pseudoclefts." Seventeenth Annual Minnesota Conference on Language and Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 1991.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1991. "How Dumb is the Cleft Subject Pronoun?" Northwest Linguistics Conference, University of Victoria, February 1991.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski. 1990. "Givenness, Implicature, and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse." Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Parasession on the Legacy of Grice, University of California at Berkeley, February 1990.

Gundel, Jeanette K., Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski. 1989. "Givenness, Implicature and Demonstrative Expressions in English Discourse." Chicago Linguistic Society, Parasession on Language in Context, University of Chicago, April 1989.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1988. "The Discourse Function of Cleft Sentences in Spoken English." Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 1988.

Hedberg, Nancy, Gundel, Jeanette K., and Ron Zacharski. 1988. "On the Generation and Interpretation of Demonstrative Expressions." Twelfth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary, August 1988.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1983. "Transitive Verb Constructions in Cakchiquel Mayan." Ninth Annual Minnesota Regional Conference on Language and Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 1983.

Hedberg, Nancy. 1982. "Final Devoicing and Aspiration in Cakchiquel Mayan." Eighth Annual Minnesota Regional Conference on Language and Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 1982.

Recent Invited Talks, Guest Lectures, and Department Poster Sessions

Hedberg, Nancy. 2021. “Discourse Functions of Clefts and Pseudoclefts in English. Talk invited by Karen Lahousse, presented in Lectures on Information Structure series, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, June 18, 2021. (remote)

Hedberg, Nancy, Zack Gilkison, and Yifang Yuan. 2021. Global Discourse Functions of Clefts in English: A Pilot Study in Progress. SFU Linguistics Poster Session, April 15, 2021. (remote)

Hedberg, Nancy, Zack Gilkison, and Yifang Yuan. 2021. Dialogue Functions of Questions in English: A Pilot Study in Progress. SFU Linguistics Poster Session, April 15, 2021. (remote)

Hedberg, Nancy. 2020. “Corpus Linguistics: Question Intonation in English”. Guest Lecture invited by Patricia Schneider-Zioga, presented to the graduate class on Bibliography and Research Methods, Department of English, Comparative Literature and Linguistics. California State University at Fullerton, Oct. 22, 2020. (remote)

Hedberg, Nancy. 2020. “What is Pragmatics?” Interview for Word to the Whys podcast by Meg Grant, October 27, 2020. (remote)

Hedberg, Nancy. 2019. "The Meaning of Rising Intonation in Wh-Interrogatives in English?" Talk invited by Martina Wiltschko, "Eh-lab", Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia. February 6, 2019.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2018. "Deixis Meets Discourse: An Analysis of the Halkomelem Determiner System." Talk invited by Kaja Borthen, Department of Language and Literature. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, June 18, 2018.


Hedberg, Nancy. 2014. "Copulas and Copula Semantics in the World's Languages. SFU-JNU Joint Symposium, Simon Fraser University, June 16-20, 2014.

Hedberg, Nancy 2014. "The Givenness Hierarchy, Implicature and Cataphora". Talk invited by Maite Taboada, Discourse Research Group, Simon Fraser University, February 26, 2014

Hedberg, Nancy. 2013. "The Phonetics of Pitch Accents in American English Polar Questions". Guest lecture invited by Marion Caldecott, to LING 800 (Phonology), March 21, 2013.

Hedberg, Nancy. 2013. "Music and Language as Cognitive Systems". Guest lecture (3 hours), invited by Rada Trnavac, to COGS 100 (Exploring the Mind), March 21, 2013.

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Primary Research Funding

Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2017 Period: 2017 – 2020 (extended to 2022) Project Title: "Coast Salish Ways of Speaking: Documenting discourse as a path to fluency" Funding: SSHRC Partnership Development Grant Type: External Annual: $64,325 Total: $192,976 Involvement: Principal Investigator Collaboration: Co-investigators: Donna Gerdts (SFU), Siommon Pullman (Royal Roads University. Collaborators: Thomas Hukari (University of Victoria), Peter Jacobs (University of Victoria), Delores Louie (Vancouver Island University)

Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2017 Period: 2017 – 2022 (extended to 2024) Project Title: "Hul'q'umi'num' stories: The prosodics and pragmatics of performance." Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant Type: External Annual: $51,145.20 Total: $255,726 Involvement: Co-Investigator Collaboration: Principal Investigator: Donna B. Gerdts, SFU. Co-investigators: David Beck, University of Alberta; Suzanne Urbanczyk, University of Victoria. Collaborators: Siomonn Pulla, Royal Roads University; Virginia Hill, University of New Brunswick; Sonya Bird, University of Victoria; Thomas Hukari, University of Victoria, Peter Jacobs, University of Victoria.

Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2015 Period: 2015 - 2017 Project Title: "The Syntax and Semantics of Copula Sentences in Thai" (amended to Russian) Funding: SSHRC Small Grant Type: Internal & External Annual: $3,500 Total: $7,000 Involvement: Principal Investigator

Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2007 Period: 2007 – 2010 (extended to 2011) Project Title: “The Prosody of Sentence Types and Information Structure in North American English.” Funding: SSHRC Standard Research Grant Type: External Annual: $27,982 Total: $83,946 Involvement: Principal Investigator Collaboration: Juan M. Sosa, Co-Investigator

Contract/Grant: Equipment Grant Awarded: 2007 Period: 2007 - 2007 Project Title: “Cognitive neuroscience of language & learning - Implementation with electroencypholography (EEG)” (bought EEG equipment) Funding: NSERC Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 Type: External Annual: $98,700 Total: $98,700 Involvement: Co-Investigator Collaboration: Yue Wang (Principal Investigator), Jeff Pelletier, Nancy Hedberg, Ghassan Hamarneh, Mark Blair (Co-investigators).


Contract/Grant: Equipment Grant Awarded: 2006 Period: 2006 - 2006 Project Title: “Selective Processing of Features, Dimensions & Feedback in Human Category Learning” (bought eye-trackers) Funding: NSERC Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 Type: External Annual: $34,241 Total: $34,241. Involvement: Co-Investigator Collaboration: Mark Blair, Psychology, (Principal Investigator), Nancy Hedberg, Jeff Pelletier, and Yue Wang (Co-investigators).

Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2005 Period: 2005 - 2007 Project Title: "The Prosody of Sentence Types and Information Structure in North American English and Latin American Spanish." Funding: Discovery Park Grant - SFU Type: Internal Annual: $4,849 Total: $9,698 Involvement: Principal Investigator Collaboration: Juan M. Sosa (Co-investigator)

Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2004 Period: 2004 - 2006 Project Title: “The Prosody of Information Structure and Sentence Type in English, Spanish and Portuguese.” Funding: SSHRC Small Grant Type: Internal Annual: $4,425 Total: $8,850 Involvement: Principal Investigator Collaboration: Juan M. Sosa (Co-investigator)

Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2002 Period: 2002 - 2004 Project Title: "Information Structure, Sentence Types, and their Prosodic Correlates in English and Spanish." Funding: Discovery Park Grant Type: Internal Total: $9,975 Involvement: Principal Investigator Collaboration: Juan M. Sosa, Co-Investigator.

Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 2001 Period: 2001 - 2003 Project Title: "Information Structure, Sentence Types, and the Prosody of English and Spanish." Funding: SSHRC Small Grant Type: Internal Total: $8,835 Involvement: Joint Investigator Collaboration: Juan Sosa, Joint Investigator.

Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 1994 Period: 1994 – 1997 (extended to 1998) Project Title: "Universals of Topic and Focus Constructions" Funding: SSHRC Standard Research Grant Type: External Total: $54,200 Involvement: Principal Investigator

Contract/Grant: Research Grant Awarded: 1992 Period: 1992 - 1995 Project Title: "Universals of Topic and Focus Constructions" Funding: President's Research Grant, Simon Fraser University Type: Internal Total: $5,500 Involvement: Principal Investigator

Contract/Grant: Small Grant Awarded: 1991 Period: 1991 - 1993 Project Title: "Discourse Modeling and the Pragmatics of Reference" Funding: SSHRC Small Grant Type: Internal Total: $4,999 Involvement: Principal Investigator


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Teaching Activity at Simon Fraser University Course Number Semesters and Enrollment Semantics LING 802 1991-2 (2), 1993-2 (6), 1995-3 (2), 2001-3 (1), 2006-3 (3), 2011-3 (6),

2014-1 (7), 2015-3 (1), 2016-3 (6) Topics in Semantics LING 406 2005-3 (18), 2006-3 (24) Advanced Semantics LING 406 1991-1 (17), 1993-2 (2), 1995-3 (7), 1999-3 (9), 2001-3 (26) Semantics LING 324 1990-3 (44), 1991-3 (39), 1992-3 (30), 1993-3 (26), 1994-2 (23), 1995-2

(26), 1996-1 (34), 1998-3 (34), 1999-2 (29), 2000-2 (60), 2001-2 (65), 2002-3 (42). 2003-3 (35), 2005-2 (35), 2006-2 (35), 2007-2 (34), 2008-3 (42), 2009-3 (44), 2010-2 (47), 2012-1 (34), 2013-3 (39), 2014-3 (35), 2015-3 (35), 2018-1 (36), 2018-3 (38), 2021-2 (5, Indigenous Languages Program), 2022-1, 2023-3, 2024-1

Discourse and Pragmatics

LING 803 2012-3 (5), 2020-2 (4), 2023-3

Topics in Linguistics LING 812/813

1992-3 (15: Discourse Pragmatics), 2001-2 (6: Semantics of Prosody); 2002-2 (3: Discourse Pragmatics), 2007-3 (10: Experimental Pragmatics)

Topics in Linguistics LING 480/481

1992-3 (13: Discourse Pragmatics), 1994-3 (14: Discourse Analysis), 2001-2 (2: Semantics of Prosody [overload]), 2002-2 (24: Discourse Pragmatics), 2007-3 (20: Experimental Pragmatics), 2012-3 (16: Pragmatics and Cognition); 2020-2 (16: Discourse Pragmatics)

Syntax LING 801 1993-3 (7) Advanced Syntax LING 405 1993-3 (15) Syntax LING 322 1992-2 (19), 2006-2 (33), 2006-3 (25), 2008-2 (1: overload), 2008-2

(14), 2009-2 (20), 2009-3 (36), 2012-3 (35), 2014-3 (31), 2017-1 (44), 2022-1, 2024-1

Introduction to Syntax

LING 222 1990-3 (27), 1991-3 (20), 1993-2 (15), 1994-3 (30), 1995-2 (20), 1996-1 (38), 1998-3 (31), 1999-2 (33), 1999-2 (22), 1999-3 (38), 2000-2 (49), 2001-3 (56), 2002-3 (50), 2003-2 (48), 2003-3 (49), 2004-2 (50), 2005-2 (50), 2005-3 (50), 2007-2 (22), 2007-3 (27), 2008-2 (22), 2009-2 (26), 2013-1 (39)

Linguistic Argumentation

LING 301W 2017-3 (35)

Topics in Cognitive Science

COGS 300 2000-3 (10: Noam Chomsky), 2012-1 (19: Language, Music and Cognition), 2013-1 (17: Language, Music and Cognition), 2014-3 (1: Language, Music and Cognition)

Foundations of Cognitive Science

COGS 200 2014-1 (15), 2015-1 (20), 2016-1 (21)

Basic Cognitive Science

COGS 200 1991-1 (9), 1992-1 (1), 1992-2 (7), 1995-1 (7)


Directed Research LING 896 1993-1 (1), 1993-2 (1), 1993-2 (1), 1994-1 (1), 1999-2 (1), 1999-3 (1),

2000-1 (1), 2009-2 (1), 2010-2 (1), 2015-2 (1), 2016-1 (1), 2020-1 (1), 2021-2 (1)

Graduate Seminar I LING 891 2014-3 (5) Graduate Seminar II LING 892 2015-1 (5) Research Seminar LING 897 1994-2 (9)

____________________________________________________________ Teaching at an Institution Outside of Canada

Date Institution Course

January - March 1990 Cornell University "Topic and Focus in Linguistic Theory"

April - June 1989 University of Minnesota Ling 1-005 "Language and Society"

April - June 1989 University of Minnesota Ling 5-212 "Linguistic Pragmatics"

January- March 1989 University of Minnesota Ling 1-005 "Language and Society"

June - August 1988 University of Minnesota Ling 5-001 "Introduction to Linguistics" (co-taught with J. Michael Bouldin)

April - May 1987 University of Minnesota Ling 1-005 "Language and Society"

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Senior Supervisory Duties of a Thesis/Dissertation/Major Project Name Degree Project/Thesis Title Completed

Gilkison, Zachary Ph.D 2020-

Yuan, Yifang Ph.D China Fellowship. 2019-

Zhang, Helen M.A. 2017-

Gilkison, Zachary M.A. “How What Was Said Was Said: Quotation in Hul’q’umi’num’ texts.” Currently: in PhD program SFU.

2020

Elouazizi, Noureddine

Ph.D. “A Syntactic Study of Parenthetical Verb Clauses in Moroccan Arabic”

2020

Pursued doctoral studies while employed full time as Senior E-Learning Technologies Advisor, Certified General Accountants of Canada. Currently: Strategist, Teaching and Learning Technologies, Faculty of Science, University of British Columbia, (2014-present)


Name Degree Project/Thesis Title Completed

Al-Ali, Wafa M.A. “Metaphoric Understanding of Religious Discourse” 2018

Employed as English Instructor, Niagra College, Saudi Arabia.

Katz, Mara M.A. “Politeness Theory and the Classification of English Speech Acts” 2016

Subsequently employed in Greater Seattle area as Contract Technical Writer, XNorai; Freelance Writer, Card Kingdom, Inc.; Computational Linguist, Appen; Freelance Editor, Cactus Global.

Chang, Daniel M.A “Tone Language Experience and Musical Ability” (Co-supervisor) 2014

Co-supervisor: Yue Wang. PhD, 2016, Educational Psychology, SFU. Currently: Term Lecturer, Faculty of Education, SFU; and Education Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC.

Görgülü, Emrah Ph.D. “Semantics of Nouns and the Specification of Number in Turkish.”

2012

Currently: Associate Professor ,Department of English Language Teacher Education, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkey.

Mameni, Morgan M.A. “Epistemic Implicatures and Inquisitive Bias: A Multidimensional Semantics for Polar Interrogatives”

2010

SSHRC Master’s Scholarship. Currently: Director, Research Intelligence, Office of the Vice-President Research, SFU.

Fadden, Lorna Ph.D. “The Prosody of Suspects’ Speech During Speech Interviews” 2008

Currrently: (1) Adjunct faculty member, SFU Linguistics Department, (2) Consulting Forensic Linguist, Lorna Fadden.com, 2008-present. (3) Criminal Defence, Child Protection and Prison Law lawyer, Fadden Law, Penticton, BC and Whitehorse, Yukon.

Sakurai, Yasuko A.B.D. “A Centering Analysis of Japanese Discourse.’ Employed as Associate Professor, English, at Asahikawa National College of Technology, Japan.

Attended 2000-08

Choi, Tim M.A. “Chinese SHI...DE Focus Constructions: An Optimality Theoretic Proposal.”

2006

Employed since 2009, Population Data BC, University of British Columbia. Currently: Lead, Data Access.

Sharifi, Sima M.A. “A Minimalist Treatment of Word Order in Persian” 2001

PhD, Translation Studies, University of Ottawa, 2016. Creator (with Arnold Witzig) of Arctic Inspiration Prize (2012-present)

Lu, Zhongling A.B.D. “Chinese Aspect as Obligatory Sentential Head.” Left to take-up full time paid employment in business sector.

Attended 1992-97

Schapansky, Nathalie

Ph.D. “Negation, Referentiality and Boundedness in Breton: A Case Study in Markedness and Asymmetry”

1996


Name Degree Project/Thesis Title Completed

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. Employed as Limited Term Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, University of Alberta; Limited Term Assistant Professor, French Department, SFU, 2008-09. Instructor, French, Department of Modern Languages, Douglas College, New Westminster, British Columbia.

Saxton, Karen A.B.D. “In Defense of Monosemy”. SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. Attended 1992-95

Thorstrand, Anna Katarina

M.A. “On Relevance and Linguistic Strength in TV Commercials” 1994

Marchant, Alison M.A. “Indefinite 'this' and the Givenness Hierarchy” 1994

Employed as Technical Writer, most recently at Latitude Geographics, Victoria, BC.

Ding, Picus Sizhi M.A. “The Ba-Resultative Construction in Mandarin” 1993

PhD, Linguistics, Australian National University. Employed as Assistant Professor in Hong Kong.

Saxton, Karen M.A. “Discourse Particles in Constructed Dialogue.” 1992

____________________________________________________________ Serving on a Supervisory/Examining Committee of a Thesis/ Dissertation/Major Project Name Degree Thesis Title Completed

Webb, Rosemary M.A. Gesture use in Hul’q’umi’num’ storytelling. SSHRC Master’s Scholarship. Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts

2020-

Schneider, Lauren Ph.D. Motion, direction and verb serialization in Hul’q’umi’num’ Salish. Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts.

2018-

Marston, Luke M.A.-LFNL

Xu’athun stl’qeen’: hwulmuhw Perspectives on Art and Language. Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. (Project examiner)

2021

Tommy, Marlene M.A.-LFNL

Connecting Generations Through Hwulmuhwqun Stories. Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. (Project examiner)

2020

Thorne Morris,Tara M.A.-LFNL

Suwsiw: Hul’q’umi’num’ Stories of the Land and Sea Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. (Project examiner)

2020


Guerin, Evangeline M.A.-LFNL

Tsetsul’ulhtun’ mustimuhw: Hul’q’umi’num’ Stories from our Fishing Life. Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. (Project examiner)

2020

Guerin, Victor M.A.-LFNL

θə stqayeʔ təǹi ƛ səl �ilwətaʔl � ʔi nec sx ix əỳem: She-Wolf and other Tslei-watuth First Nations Narratives. (Project examiner)

2020

Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. Currently in PhD Program, Individualized Studies, SFU with Aboriginal Entrance Fellowship and SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship .

Baker, Rae Anne Claxton M.A.-LFNL

lhwet tse’ xwi’em’? hwi’ ’een’thu tse’. How I learned to perform a Hul’q’umi’num’ story. (Project examiner)

2020

Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. Currently: PhD program, Linguistics, University of Alberta, SSHRC Banting Fellowship.

Antoine, Laura M.A.-LFNL

“Hul’q’umi’num’ Stories as Snuw’uyuhl: Bringing Life Lessons to Language Learners.” Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. (Project examiner)

2019

Manson, Colleen M.A.-LFNL

“’ula’ulh’u tu q’xuw’lh: Awakening Hul’q’umi’num’ Language through Tribal Journeys.” Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. (Project examiner)

2019

Kim, Kyeong-min Ph.D. “The Binding Properties of Pronouns in Korean” 2018-3

Senior Supervisor: Chung-hye Han. Employed as Limited Term Lecturer, Syntax, Simon Fraser University, 2020-21

Baetscher, Kevin M.A. “Interclausal and Intraclausal Linking Elements in Hul'q'umi'num' Salish”

2014-2

Senior supervisor: Donna Gerdts. Entered PhD program, Linguistics, University of Hawaii.

Das, Debopam Ph.D. “Investigating the Signaling of Coherence Relations in Discourse”

2014-2

Co-Senior Supervisors, Maite Taboada and Paul McFetridge. Employed as Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Potsdam. Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Hinnell, Jennifer M.A. “A Construction Analysis of [be done X] in Canadian English”

2012-2

Senior Supervisor: Maite Taboada. PhD, 2020, Linguistics, University of Alberta, SSHRC Banting Fellowship. Currently: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UBC, Department of English Language and Literatures.


Walsh, Calen M.A. “A Computational Model of Eye-Movements in Category Learning Tasks” (external examiner)

2011-2

Senior Supervisor, Mark Blair, Psychology. PhD, Psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience, 2015. The University of Edinburgh. Research Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin.

Storoshenko, Dennis Ph.D. “A Cross-Linguistic Account of Reflexivity using Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar”

2011-2

Senior Supervisor: Chung-hye Han. SSHRC Post-doc, Yale University. Currently: Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Calgary.

Potter, David M.A. “A Multiple Dominance Analysis of Sharing Coordination using Tree Adjoining Grammar”

2010-2

Senior Supervisor: Chung-hye Han. PhD, Linguistics, Northwestern University, 2017. Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Morehead State University, Kentucky.

Lee, Tzu-Ying M.A. “Juncture Phrasing Thresholds: A Constraint-Based Approach to Speech Rate Effects on Mandarin Tone Sandhi.” Senior Supervisor, John Alderete

2009-3

Wiessmann, Loreley Ph.D. “The Function of Spanish and English Relative Clauses in Discourse and their Segmentation in Centering Theory”

2009-3

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. Senior Supervisor, Maite Taboada. Lecturer, University of Cologne, Germany, 2010-2011. Currently: Lecturer, University of Essex, Germany.

Brooke, Julian M.A. “A Semantic Approach to Automated Text Sentiment Analysis”

2009-3

Senior Supervisor: Maite Taboada. PhD. Computer Science, University of Toronto. Currently: Assistant Professor of Teaching, Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics, University of British Columbia.

Coppola, Greg M.A. “Logic and the Comprehension of Language” 2009-1

Senior Supervisor: Jeff Pelletier. PhD, 2014, Computer Science University of Edinburgh. Employed as Senior Software Engineer, Google, 2014-2019. Currently: Software Engineer, Hiro Systems, New York.

Al Khatib, Samer M.A. “The Semantics of Vagueness: Supertruth, Subtruth, and the Cooperative Principle”

2008-2


Senior Supervisor: Jeff Pelletier. PhD, MIT. Currently: Assistant Professor, Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.

Kudo, Mayo M.A. “A Lexical Semantic Study of Four Character Sino-Japanese Compounds and its Application to Machine Translation”

2007-2

Senior Supervisor: Maite Taboada. MSc. 2008, Computational Linguistics, University of Washington. Currently: Lead Linguistic Engineering and Innovation, Acrolinx, Tokyo, Japan.

Kiyosawa, Kaoru Ph.D. ”Applicatives in Salish Languages” 2007-2

Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. Employed International Christian University, Japan. Currently: Instructor, Suwa University of Science, Japan.

Lavoie, Jennifer M.A. “Discourse Analysis of Children's True and False ‘Autobiographical’ reports” (external examiner)

2005-3

Senior Supervisor: Deborah Connelly, Psychology. Currently: Associate Professor, Departments of Psychology and Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, Ontario,

Storeshenko, Dennis M.A. “Negation and Phrase Structure in Japanese” 2004-2

Senior Supervisor: Chung-hye Han. PhD, SFU. Currrently: Associate Professor, University of Calgary

Oliveira, Miguel Ph.D. “Prosodic Features in Spontaneous Narratives.” (Internal Examiner).

2004-1

Senior Supervisor: Zita McRobbie. Currently: Professor of Linguistics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil.

Fadden, Lorna M.A. “The Inverse Continuum.” 2000-3

Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. PhD, SFU. Employed as computational linguist at Axonwave Software and the Mindful Eye, Vancouver, prior to PhD program and Law Degree. Currently: Lawyer and Forensic Linguist

Chung, Kyung-Sook Ph.D. “Deictic and Anaphoric Tense in Korean: a Two-Tiered Approach.”

2000-2

Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. Currently: Department of English Language and Literature, Pusan National University, South Korea

Hinkson, Mercedes Ph.D. “Salishan Lexical Suffixes: A Study in the Conceptualization of Space.” (Internal Examiner)

1999-3

Senior Supervisor: Donna Gerdts. Employed in Salish language revitalization, Washington and B.C.


Kubon, Petr Ph.D. “Information Packaging Revisited” 1999-1

Senior Supervisor: Fred Popowich, Computing Science. Employed as Director of Research and Development at Recombo Inc., Vancouver, BC.

Zhou, Shuicai Ph.D. “Chinese Relative Clauses from a Pedagogical Perspective.” Senior Supervisor: Juan Sosa. (Internal Examiner)

1999-1

Toole, Janine Ph.D. “The Semantic Interpretation of Definite Noun Phrases: Uniqueness Intuitions, Telescope Anaphora, and Strong and Weak Readings in Donkey Sentences”

1998-3

Senior supervisor: Paul McFetridge. Employed at Axonwave Software, 2000-2003. Founder, AutoCrit.com, 205-2013. Curently: Founder, Happy Frog Apps, Inc., Burnaby, BC, 2014-

Lee, In Que Ph.D. “Dative Constructions and Case Theory in Korean.” Senior Supervisor: (Internal Examiner)

1997-1

Donna Gerdts. Subsequently trained and employed in Speech Pathology.

Mattina, Nancy Ph.D. “Aspect and Argument Structure in Salish” 1997-1

Senior supervisor: Donna Gerdts. Currently: Faculty and Coordinator of the Writing & Learning Center, Prescott College, Arizona.

Dueck, Sandra M.A. “The DMA of Genre: Discourse, Media, Analysis and the Evening News”

1996-2

English Department, Senior supervisor: Rick Coe. Subsequently training in Faculty of Education. SFU. Currently: Teacher Librarian at Burnaby School District.

Muntigl, Peter M.A. “The Conversational Structure of Arguments” 1995-3

Senior supervisor: William Turnbull (Psychology). Currently: Lecturer in English language and linguistics, Ghent University, Belgium, 2010-

Jhang, Sea-Eun Ph.D. “Headed Nominalizations in Korean: Relative Clauses, Clefts, Comparatives”

1995-1

Senior supervisor: Donna Gerdts. Currently: Professor, English Language and Literature, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Busan, Korea.

Adler, Marcela M.A. “Aspects of Aspect in Czech”

Senior supervisor: Richard DeArmond. Employed in Library Science

1994-1


____________________________________________________________ Graduate Supervision Outside SFU (incl. External Examinations)

Heim, Johannes Ph.D. August 2019 External Examiner Area: Prosody, Semantics Title: "Commitment and Engagement: The Role of Intonation in Deriving Speech Acts." Institution: University of British Columbia Notes: Research Director: Martina Wiltschko. Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Newcastle

University, UK.

Ahmed, Rasha Ph.D. June 2011 Foreign supervisor Area: Computational Linguistics Title: "Centering in Arabic" Institution: English Department, Alexandria University, Egypt Notes: Channel System Scholarship. Employed as Lecturer, English Department, Alexandria

University, 2011-

Cook, Clare Ph.D. June 2008 University Examiner Area: Syntax Title: "The Syntax and Semantics of Clause Typing in Plains Cree." Institution: University of British Columbia Notes: Research Supervisor: Rose-Marie Dechaine. Currently: Research Coordinator,

Continuing Education and Professional Development ate Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

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Active Service to Simon Fraser University

Administrative Positions

Chair, Department of Linguistics 2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17, 2015-16

Director, Cognitive Science Program 2012-13

Coordinator, Cognitive Science Program 2003-04, 2002-03, 2001-02, 2000-01, 1999-2000

Departmental Committees

Acting Graduate Program Chair, Graduate 2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18 Certification and MA in the Linguistics of a First Nations Language

Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee 2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17, 2015-16

Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee 2014-15, 2013-14, 2012-13, 2009-10, 2008-09, 2007-08, 2006-07, 2005-06, 2003-04

Member, Departmental Tenure Committee 2002-03, 2001-02, 1999-2000, 1998-99, 1997-98, 1996- 97, 1994-95, 1993-94, 1992-93, 1991-92, 1990-91

Chair, Graduate Studies Committee 2014-15, 2011-12, 2009-10, 2008-09, 2007-08,2006-07

Member, Graduate Studies Committee 2021-22, 2005-06

Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee 2003-04, 2001-02, 1999-2000, 1994-95, 1993-94, 1992-93, 1991-92

Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee 2002-03

Chair, Departmental Working Environment 2003-03, 2001-02 Committee

Member, Departmental Equity Committee 2000-01, 1999-2000, 1998-99

Faculty Committees

Member, Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC) 2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17. 2015-16

Member, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 2014-15, 2011-12, 2009-10, 2008-09, 2007-08, Graduate Studies Committee 2006-07

Member, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 2014-15, 2013-14, 2003-04, 2001-02, 1999-2000, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 1994-95,1993-94, 1992-93, 1991-92


University Committees

Member, Chairs and Directors Group 2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17, 2015-16

Member, Neuroscience Working Group 2020-21, 2019-20 Associate Vice President Research

Other

Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Philosophy Department 2017-18, 2015-16, 2003-04

Member, Experimental Syntax Lab: 2011-19

Other Interdisciplinary Programs

Associate Member, Cognitive Science Program 2008-2020

Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Cognitive Science Program 2014-15, 2013-14

Member, Cognitive Science Steering Committee, Cognitive Science Program 2019-22, 1990-2015

Search Committee, Canada Research Chair, Cognitive Science 2010

Member, Canada Research Chair Appointment Committee, Cognitive Science 2002-03

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Active Service to the Academic Community

Editorial Positions

2020 - Current Editorial Board, Chinese Language and Discourse

2019 - Current Board of Consulting Editors, Linguistics

1993 - 2008 Associate General Editor, Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science/New Directions in Cognitive Science, Oxford University Press

Review of Submissions

Book manuscript review Routledge Textbooks (5 chapters: 2013), Cambridge University Press Research Surveys in Linguistics (2009, 2008), John Benjamins Pragmatics & Beyond (2007, 1998).

Book proposal review Routledge (2018), Cambridge University Press textbook (2017), Cambridge University Press Research Surveys in Linguistics (2007)


Journal article review Language Variation and Change (2019), Syntax (2019), Acta Linguistica Hungarica (2019), Linguistics (2018), English Language and Linguistics (2020, 2018), Language and Speech (2018, 2018), Semantics and Pragmatics (2017, 2016), Glossa (2021, 2019, 2016), Lingua (2016, 2015, 2014, 2014, 2013, 2013, 2010), Linguistics (2020, 2019, 2018, 2014, 2013, 2008), Australian Journal of Linguistics (2014, 2011), Journal of Pragmatics (2013, 2012, 2010, 2008, 1994, 1993), Folia Linguistica (2013), Journal of Linguistics (2012, 2007, 2004), Discourse and Dialogue (2019, 2012), Language (2011, 1996), Topics in Cognitive Science (2010, 2010), Language Sciences (2010), Studia Linguistica (2007), Journal of English Linguistics (2006, 2006), Functions of Language (2004)

Book chapter review Article in book series reviewer: Undisclosed publisher (2019), Quaderns de Filologia (2018), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2016, 2016) , Oxford Handbook of English Grammar (2016), John Benjamins (2013, 2012, 2012, 2008), Mouton de Gruyter (2004), University of Montana Press (2003, 2003), Academic Press (1996)

Conference paper review Cognitive Science Association Annual Meeting (2014, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2001, 2000)

Conference abstract review Semantics and Linguistic Theory, SALT (2022, 2021, 2015, 2013, 2011); International Workshop on the Expression of Contrast and the Anotation of Information Structure in Corpora (2021); Canadian Linguistics Association, CLA (2021, 2020, 2019, 2017); West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, WCCFL (2021, 2020, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2009, 2008, 2005); Western Conference on Linguistics, WECOL (2011, 2008, 2007, 2002, 1996, 1991); Meeting of Semanticists Active in Canada, MOSAIC (2010); International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, ICEAL (2008); Minnesota Conference on Language and Linguistics, MCoLL (1988, 1985)

Conference Organization

Scientific Committee The 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Lisbon, Portugal, May 23-26, 2022

International Workshop on the Expression of Contrast and the Anotation of Information Structure in Corpora, KU Leuven, Belgium, November. 18-19, 2021 (hybrid)

The 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Tokyo, May-Sept. 2020 (remote)


Conference Co-organization Prosodic Constructions panel (17th Annual IInternational Pragmatics Conference, 2015); West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, WCCFL 33 (2015); Western Conference on Linguistics, WECOL (2011); Semantics and Linguistic Theory, SALT 20 (2010); International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, ICEAL-2 (2008); Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science (2003, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993); Cognitive Science Association Conference (1999); Minnesota Conference on Language and Linguistics, MCoLL (1988)

Conference Grants, SSHRC Western Conference on Linguistics, WECOL, 2011 [$12,054]), Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science: 1996 [$10,000], 1995 [$10,000], 1994 [$7,050], 1993 [$7,000], 1992 [$7,500]

Grant and Fellowship Review

Grant Adjudication Committee SSHRC Partnership Development Grants (2018), SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships (2001, 2002)

Research Grant Reviewer SSHRC Insight Grants (2019, 2015, 2014,) SSHRC Standard Research Grants (2007), National Science Foundation (2013, 2012, 2011, 2001, 2000)

Dissertation Grant Reviewer National Science Foundation (2000)

Review of Promotion Cases

April 2020– June 2020 Review of promotion to Full Professor case, University of Botswana. English Department

Sept. 2018 – Oct. 2018 Review of promotion to Associate Professor case, University of Nizwa, Oman, Department of Foreign Languages

Aug. 2015 – Oct. 2015 Reviewer of Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Linguistics Program, Department of Writing Studies.

June 2013 – Sept. 2013 Reviewer of Promotion to Full Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, Linguistics Department.

May 2013 – July 2013 Review of Promotion to Associate Professor, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, Department of English Linguistics

Oct. 2012 – Dec. 2012 Review of Promotion to Full Professor, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, English Department

College of Reviewers, Canada Research Chairs

Dec. 2015 – Jan. 2016 Reviewer of Nomination, Canada Research Chairs


Review of Academic Programs

April 2017 - May 2017 External Reviewer, Graduate Program, Linguistics Department, University of Manitoba

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Membership in the Academic Community

American Pragmatics Association (2019-Current)

The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (2018-Current)

Society for Music Perception and Cognition (2011-17)

Cognitive Science Society (1999-Current)

Canadian Linguistics Association (1992-Current)

International Pragmatics Association (1990-Current)

Modern Language Assocation (1989)

Association for Computational Linguistics (1987-90, 2006)

Linguistic Society of America (1982-Current)

Documents

Curriculum Vitae Dr. Nancy Hedberg - SFU