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Academic Positions

• Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, 2006-present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, 2004-2006
• Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Calgary, 1999-2004
• Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, 1997-1998
• Researcher in "Pionier" project on negative polarity, Vakgroep Nederlands, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1994-1996 (principal investigator: Jack Hoeksema)

Education

• Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1995
  Dissertation: Maximality in the Semantics of Wh-Constructions
  Committee: Barbara Partee (supervisor), Angelika Kratzer, Margaret Speas, and James Cathey
• Doctorandus (M.A.), Vakgroep Algemene Taalwetenschap, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1988
  Thesis committee: Jan Koster (supervisor), Eric Reuland, and Sjaak de Mey