Ileana Paul is Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies. She works on the structure of Malagasy, the language spoken in Madagascar. She wrote her doctoral dissertation at McGill, under the supervision of Lisa Travis, in which she addressed questions about clause structure in Malagasy. Ileana Paul est une professeure associée dans le Département d'études françaises. Elle travaille sur la grammaire du malgache, langue parlée à Madagascar. Dans sa thèse, rédigée à McGill sous la direction de Lisa Travis, il est question de la structure de la phrase en malgache.
Articles (Refereed publications)
Sluicing without Wh-Movement in Malagasy (with Eric Potsdam), Sluicing in a cross-linguistic perspective (2012)
Specification and inversion: Evidence from Malagasy, Austronesian and theoretical linguistics (2010)
Subjects: Grammatical relations, grammatical functions and functional categories, Language and Linguistics Compass (2010)
Books Edited
Published Proceedings (Abstracts were refereed)
Bare Nouns, Incorporation, and Scope, Proceedings of Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (2009)
How to Sluice in the Wh-in-situ Language Malagasy (with Eric Potsdam), Proceedings of CLS (2008)
La syntaxe, la morphologie et la phonologie de la réduction dans les titres (with Ivan Chow, Volha Kharytonava, and Mikalai Kliashchuk), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association (2008)
Non-refereed Publications and Presentations
Digital Scholarship @ Western: A Linguistic Perspective, Digital Scholarship @ Western 2011 (2011)
Complex Verbal Constructions in Malagasy (with Jeannot Fils Ranaivoson), UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics (1998)
Raising to Object in Malagasy (with Lucie Rabaovololona), UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics (1998)
Book Reviews
The Semantics of Incorporation: From Argument Structure to Discourse Transparency, Canadian Journal of Linguistics (2006)