Samuel Jambrović

Sam is a fifth-year PhD candidate specializing in the morphosyntax and semantics of the noun phrase. He holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2021–2024) and has been awarded a Connaught International Scholarship (2019–2021) and an International Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2020–2021). He is currently a research assistant for the SSHRC-funded project The Syntax of Nominal Linkers (PI: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, 2020–present) and was previously one for Spanish L2 Morphosyntax (PI: María Cristina Cuervo, 2020–2021). He has been a course instructor for English Grammar, English Words, Spanish for Beginners, and Spanish Pronunciation and has served as a teaching assistant for a variety of courses in linguistics and Spanish. His publications include:

• To appear. Arguments in Spanish are not uniformly DPs. In Proceedings of the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007452.
• To appear. Reference to singular kinds in Germanic and Romance. In Proceedings of the 2023 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. https://cla-acl.ca/actes/actes-2023-proceedings.html.
• To appear. Roots, naming, and locality: The structure of name predicates. In Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/006810
• 2023 (with Mohammed K. Hassan). Nominal linkers in Central Kurdish (Silemānī variety). Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 45. 1–18. https://doi.org/10.33137/twpl.v45i1.41669.
• 2022. Singular referential names as nonrigid designators and bound variables. In Özge Bakay, Breanna Pratley, Eva Neu & Peyton Deal (eds.), NELS 52: Proceedings of the fifty-second annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, volume two, 73–86. Amherst, MA: Graduate Linguistics Student Association. https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007020.
• 2021 (with María Cristina Cuervo & Ohanna Severo). Features and forms in L2 Spanish verbal inflection. In Angélica Hernández & Chris Plyley (eds.), Proceedings of the 2021 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 1–15. https://cla-acl.ca/actes/actes-2021-proceedings.html.
• 2021. Common names and proper nouns: Morphosyntactic evidence of a complete nominal paradigm. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6(1). 815–828. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.5022.
• 2020. Derived nouns and inflectional variability: A case for distinct nominalizers. In Angélica Hernández & M. Emma Butterworth (eds.), Proceedings of the 2020 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 1–14. https://cla-acl.ca/actes/actes-2020-proceedings.html.