Associate Professor
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 4085, 100 St. George Street, Toronto ON, M5S 3G3
Campus
- Mississauga (UTM)
Cross-Appointments
Department of Linguistics
Fields of Study
- Sociolinguistics
Areas of Interest
- Language change and innovation
- Multicultural Toronto English and new dialect formation
- Language and settler colonialism
- Grammaticalization of pragmatic markers
Languages
- Canadian English
Education
PhD, University of Toronto
MA, University of Toronto
BA (Hons), University of Toronto
Publications
- Essentials of Linguistics, 2nd edition (eCampus Ontario : 2022)
- Why are wasteyutes a ting? (University of Pennsylvania : 2020)
- Deriving Homogeneity in a Settler Colonial Variety of English (Duke University Press : 2019)
- Peaks and arrowheads of vernacular reorganization (Cambridge University Press : 2019)
- The changing future: Competition, specialization, and reorganization in the contemporary English future temporal reference system (Cambridge University Press : 2018)
- Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function: A transdisciplinary case study (Cambridge University Press : 2018)
- Settler Colonial Englishes Are Distinct from Postcolonial Englishes (Duke University Press : 2018)
- A note on mans in Toronto (University of Toronto : 2016)