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      Teaching 2009-2010

       undergraduate level

•  Tense, aspect, modality
•  The Syntax of root clauses
•  The Syntax of complementation
•  Language and Mind  (elective)
•  An introduction to clinical linguistics (with Anca Sevcenco and Andrei Avram) (elective)
•  Concepts of modern grammar (seminar)

        graduate level

• Language acquisition (II) (MA Programme)

      Research      

      Current acquisition projects

• an investigation of child Romanian (focus on the acquisition of morpho-syntax); joint work with  Dr. Martine Coene. Antwerp University/Leiden University
• a longitudinal corpus of child Romanian (some files already available via CHILDES)
• Pre- and Protomorphology, coord. Prof. Dr. Wofgang Dressler, Austrian Academy
• COST A33: Cross-linguistically robust stages of children's linguistic performance with applications for the diagnosis of specific language impairment [2007-2010], coord. Dr. Uli Sauerland.
• Crosslinguistic Language Diagnosis (CLAD) [135295-LLP-1-2007 – 1 – UK- KA1 – KA1SCR ] [2008-2010], Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), Lifelong Learning Programmes.
• CNCSIS IDEI 2008 cod 1979 The correlation between morphology and syntax in the acquisition of Romanian [2009 - 2012]

        Other current projects

• The Grammar of Romanian, coordinated by Dr Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS) and Dr Gabriela Pana-Dindelegan (University of Bucharest). Contribution: the syntax of Romanian modal verbs; joint work with Dr Virginia Motapanyane-Hill, University of New Brunswick-Saint John, Canada.

        Previous research projects

• 1992 - 1998: The Syntax of Romanian Participants: CNRS-Paris,  University of Bucharest, Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy // Contribution: The syntax of Romanian auxiliaries
•  1996 - 1999: Means of Expressing the Idea of Possession in Romance and Germanic Languages Participants:  University of Antwerp (UIA),  University of Bucharest // Contribution: The analysis of the Romanian “a avea” (to have) and “a fi” (to be).
•  2002 – 2004: Tense and Aspect in Romance and Germanic languages. Participants: University of Antwerp, University of Bucharest //Contribution: The acquisition of finiteness: the case of child Romanian// The future tense in Romanian
• 2000-2002: Grant D190 “Dezvoltarea componentei de lingvistică computaţională în cadrul masteratului de lingvistică teoretică” (member of the team); Financed by the World Bank and the Government of Romania  
• 2003 - 2005: Didactica limbilor străine în contextul integrării europene a învăţământului românesc (Teaching foreign languages in the context of European integration; Financed by CNCSIS (the Romanian Ministry of Education); coordinator: Prof. dr. Alexandra Cornilescu //Contribution: The syntax of the verb phrase in English.    
• 2007-2008: Funcţionare discursivă şi gramaticalizare in limba română veche.Grant CNCSIS A1629,coord. Prof. dr.Rodica Zafiu.