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Personal Information
Sylvain Neuvel
4229 de la Roche, Apt. 3
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
H2J 3H8
sylvain@neuvel.net
Education
Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Chicago, 2003.
Dissertation title: Metamorphology: A Word-Based Account of Polysynthesis and Other Multivalent Morphological Relations (Dissertation Chair: Jerrold M. Sadock)
B.A. Linguistics, University of Montreal, 1999
Honors and Awards
FQRSC (Fonds Québecois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture)
Postdoctoral Felowship, 2003-2005
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2003-2004
University of Chicago Century Fellowship, 1999 - 2004
FCAR Grant (Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide à la Recherche) 1999 - 2001.
Dean's Honor List, University of Montreal, 1998, 1999.
Publications
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Sylvain. (2003) Metamorphology: A Word-Based Account of Polysynthesis and Other Multivalent Morphological Relations. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Chicago.
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Refereed Journals
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Sylvain and R. Singh. (2002) Vive la difference! What Morphology is About.
Folia Linguistica: 35/3-4. 313-320.
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Sylvain. (2002) Whole Word Morphologizer. Expanding the Word-Based Lexicon: A non-stochastic computational approach. Brain and Language 81. 454-463
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Sylvain. (2001) Pattern Analogy vs. Word Internal Syntactic Structure in West-Greenlandic. Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 2000. Dordrecht: Kluwer. 253-278.
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Sylvain. (2000) Second Degree Morphology: A Challenge to the One Variable Constraint, In R. Singh ed., Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2000, Thousand Oaks: Sage. 293-301
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Other Articles
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Rajendra and Sylvain Neuvel (in press). When the Whole is Smaller than the Sum of its Parts: The case of morphology. CLS 38: The Panels. Papers from the 38th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 2.
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Rajendra and Sylvain Neuvel (2003). Quelles unités? Les unités morphologiques / Morphological Units. (Silexicales 3). ed. by Bernard Fradin, Georgette Dal, Nabil Hathout, Françoise Kerleroux, Marc Plénat, Michel Roché. Villeneuve d'Ascq, SILEX - Université de Lille 3.
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Sylvain. (2003) Metaphors we err by: On the notion of language death. Contemporary Linguistics 3. 59-68.
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Sylvain and Sean Fulop. (2002) Unsupervised Learning of Morphology Without Morphemes. Proceedings of the Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning 2002. ACL Publications
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Review(s)
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Sylvain. (2000) Phases and Interfaces of Morphology, Edited by M. Hariprasad, H. Nagarajan, P. Madhavan and K.G. Vijayakrishnan; Hyderabad: CIEFL Publication, 1997, Pp. ix, 362 p ; In Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2000, Thousand Oaks: Sage |
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As Editor
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Mary, Christopher Ball, Heidi Elston and Sylvain Neuvel eds. (2002) CLS 37: The Main Session. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 1. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
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Mary, Christopher Ball, Heidi Elston and Sylvain Neuvel eds. (2002) CLS 37: The Panels. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 2. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. |
Conference Presentations
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Sylvain and Rajendra Singh. (2002) Quelles unités?. Presented at the Third International Forum of Morphology. Lille, France, September 19, 2002.
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Sylvain and Sean Fulop. (2002) Unsupervised Learning of Morphology Without Morphemes. Presented at the ACL Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning. Philadelphia, July 11, 2002.
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Rajendra and Sylvain Neuvel (2002). When the Whole is Smaller than the Sum of its Parts: The case of morphology. Presented at CLS 38, Chicago, IL, April 26, 2002.
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Sylvain. (2000) Whole Word Morphologizer. Expanding the Word-Based Lexicon: A non-stochastic computational Approach. Presented at the 2nd International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Montreal, Canada, October 2000.
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Sylvain and R. Singh (2000) Vive la difference! What Morphology is About. Presented at the 9th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria, February 25, 2000.
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Sylvain. (1999) Le caractère relatif des oppositions communicatives en sémantique Sens/Texte, Presented at the 67th Annual Conference of L'Association Canadienne Française pour L'Avancement des Sciences, Ottawa, Canada, May 13 1999
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Invited Presentations, Colloquia, etc.
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Sylvain. (2004)
Common Sense Linguistics: Modelling Morphology with Minimal
Assumptions. University of Ottawa. March 8, 2004.
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Sylvain and Sean Fulop. (2002) Unsupervised Learning of Morphology Without Morphemes. Presented at the 2002 CLOC Meeting. University of Illinois at Chicago, April 20, 2002.
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| Neuvel, |
Sylvain and Sean Fulop. (2002) Unsupervised Learning of Morphology Without Morphemes. Presented at the 2002 CLOC Meeting. University of Illinois at Chicago, April 20, 2002.
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Sylvain. (2001) Introduction to the Meaning-Text Framework. University of Chicago Linguistics Colloquium Series. May 9, 2001.
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Sylvain. (2001) Whole Word Morphologizer: Expanding the Word-Based Lexicon: A non-stochastic computational Approach. University of Chicago Linguistics Colloquium Series. January 24, 2001.
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Sylvain. (2000) Similarities and Differences in Morphology. University of Chicago Linguistics Colloquium Series. March 15, 2000.
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Teaching Experience
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2004 |
Invited Foreign Professor. Lectures
on Computational Morphology. Morphology Winter School. Central
Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL). Mysore, India. January 5
through January 10 2004.
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| 2002 |
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, LING 21000-31000: Morphology (graduate level), Spring 2002. Syllabus (PDF)
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| 2001 |
Course assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, LING 210-310: Morphology , Spring 2001.
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Other Professional Experience
| 2002 |
Editorial Assistant: (to appear) Contemporary Linguistics 3. Perspectives on Language Evolution. ed. by S. Mufwene.
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| 2000-01 |
Officer, Chicago Linguistic Society.
Administration of the Society and organization of CLS 37:the 37th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, held in Chicago, April 19-21 2001.
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| 1999 |
Editorial Assistant : (In press) R. Singh and S. Starosta eds., Explorations in Seamless Morphology (with the collaboration of S.Neuvel), Thousand Oaks: Sage
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| 1999 |
Editorial Assistant : R. Singh ed., Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2000, Thousand Oaks: Sage
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| 1997-99 |
Research Assistant (Université de Montréal) : Mise au point d'une algèbre de calcul des fonctions lexicales. Main researcher: Alain Polguère. Funded by CRSH.
Redaction and correction of lexical entries in a dictionary of restricted lexical cooccurences in contemporary French
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| 1997-98 |
Research Assistant (Université de Montréal) : Automatic generation of paraphrases as a tool for developing and verifying formal linguistic models. Main researcher: Alain Polguère; co-researcher: Richard Kittredge. Funded by NSERC.
Organization of a dictionary into semantic fields
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