Mailing Address:
UBC Department of Linguistics
2613 West Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
V6T 1Z4
Education
M.A. in Linguistics
University of British Columbia, 2009
Thesis: Number and the Scope of Indefinites
Committee: Hotze Rullmann (supervisor), Lisa Matthewson, Martina Wiltschko
B.A. (Hons.) in Language and Linguistics
Queen's University, 2007
Honours thesis: Negative Scope and Indefinites
Supervisor: Charlotte Reinholtz
Publications
Ferch, Elizabeth. To appear. The scope of negation in Shona. In Proceedings of NWLC 2009, ed. Heather Bliss, Meagan Louie, & Murray Schellenberg.
Mayer, Connor, Bryan Gick, and Elizabeth Ferch. 2009. Talking while chewing: Speaker response to natural perturbation of speech. Canadian Acoustics 37(3):144-145.
Presentations
Ferch, Elizabeth. 2009. Number, quantification, and scope in Shona. Paper presented at the Meeting of Semanticists Active in Canada, Ottawa, May.
Ferch, Elizabeth. 2009. Number and quantification in Shona. Paper presented at the 2009 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Ottawa, May.
Ferch, Elizabeth. 2009. The scope of negation in Shona. Paper presented at the Northwest Linguistics Conference, Vancouver, April.
Ferch, Elizabeth and Carmela Toews. 2008. Interactions between negation and tense/aspect in Shona. Poster presented at the 2008 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Vancouver, May.
Ferch, Elizabeth. 2008. The structure of clausal negation in Shona. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Conference in African Linguistics, Athens, GA, April.
Ferch, Elizabeth. 2006. Negative scope and indefinites. Paper presented at the 10th Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, Kingston, ON, December.