Daniela (Dana) Isac, PhD
- Professor, Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
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Biography
My current research focuses on the syntactic and semantic properties of the different major clause types (Declaratives, Interrogatives, Imperatives and Exclamatives). In 2008 I published I-language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science (Oxford University Press) with Concordia colleague Charles Reiss, and I am currently working on a new monograph entitled The Morphosyntactic Ingredients of Force. In 2006 I published a paper on the semantic nature of the determiner the. I manage an unruly household of four, including another linguist, a young child and a young adult.
Education
PhD in Linguistics from the University of Bucharest (2000)
BA in English and French from the University of Bucharest (1998)
Research and teaching interests
Comparative syntax
Syntax-semantics interface
Syntax-phonology interface
Cognitive Science
Research groups
- FQRSC. Interfaces dynamiques.(2010-14)
Principal investigator: Anne-Marie Di Sciullo. UQAM
Grants
- FQRSC 2009-12, individual research grant (nouveaux chercheurs)
Selected publications
Books
2024. Isac, Daniela. Definiteness in Balkan Romance. Vol. 86. Oxford University Press.
2015 Isac, Daniela. The morphosyntax of imperatives. Vol. 59. Oxford University Press.
2008. with Charles Reiss. I-language. An Introduction to Linguistics as a Cognitive Science. Oxford University Press.
2007. (co-editor). Pitar Mos: A Building with a view. Papers in honor of Alexandra Cornilescu. Bucharest University Press.
Refereed Articles
2024. *Balkan Romance definite DP at the syntax-phonology interface. Languages 9(3), 67;
https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9030067.
2021. *(Bare) Objects of Prepositions in Eastern Romance. In (De)Constructing Language Struc-
ture and Meaning. Studies on Syntax, Semantics, Language Acquisition, and Phonology. Edited
by Mihaela Dogaru, Alina Tigau, Mihaela Zamfirescu. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 92-114.
2021. *Definite Determiners in Romance: the role of modification. In Points of Convergence in
Romance Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 360. Edited by Gabriela Alboiu and
Ruth King. John Benjamins. 57-78
2020. *Clause Typing and Quebec French TU. (with Justin Royer ). John Benjamins. In Romance
Languages and Linguistic Theory 16. Edited by Irene Vogel. 156-169.
2019. *Specificity, Definiteness, and Modification. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics XXI,
2, 41-55.
2008. `The Split DP hypothesis : evidence from Ancient Greek’. With Allison Kirk. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa
2008. `The asymmetry of Merge’. With Anna-Maria Di Sciullo. Biolinguistics, vol 2, no. 4, p.260-290.
2008. `Movement chains at the interfaces’. With Anna-Maria Di Sciullo. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, issue no. 53.2/3 (July/November 2008), p. 1001-1037.
2006. `In defense of a quantificational account of definite DPs’. Linguistic Inquiry. 37.2. p.275-288.
Book chapters
2005. `Depictives: Syntactic and Interpretive Asymmetries’. in UG and External Systems, ed. by Anna-Maria Di Sciullo and R. Delmonte. John Benjamins. p.3-26.
2004. `Focus on Negative Concord’. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theories, ed. by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleman. John Benjamins, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, p.119-140.
2004. `Romance and `something else'’, with Charles Reiss. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theories, ed. by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleman. John Benjamins, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, p.141-162.
2004. `Mood and Force Features in the Languages of the Balkans’. With Edit Jakab. In Balkan Syntax and Semantics, ed. by Olga Miseska Tomic. John Benjamins. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, p.315-339.
Conference papers
2010. Number dis(agreement). Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics.
2007. Quantifier-variable relations in Romanian prepositional phrases. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol IX. No 1. p. 148-160.