Maria-Luisa Rivero
Emeritus Professor, Department of Linguistics
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: ARTS 417
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1776
E-mail: mrivero@uOttawa.ca
Website: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~romlab/
University degrees
1970 – PhD Linguistics, University of Rochester
1966 – MA Linguistics, University of Rochester
Fields of interest
- Syntax (in the generative framework)
- Comparative and historical linguistics
- Romance and Slavic languages, languages of the Balkan region
Ongoing research
Syntax of Balkan, Romance and Slavic languages (SSHRC #410-2006-0150).
Courses taught
- LIN2310 Introduction to Syntax
- LIN3310 Syntactic Theory
- LIN5917 Syntax I
- LIN6917 Syntax II
- LIN7910 Seminar in Theoretical Linguistics
Selected publications
Books
Rivero, M. L. & A. Ralli, eds. (2001) Comparative Syntax of Balkan Languages. New York: Oxford University Press.
Forget, D., P. Hirschbühler, F. Martineau & M. L. Rivero, eds. (1997) Negation and polarity, Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Rivero, M. L. (1991) Las construcciones de relativo. Madrid: Taurus.
Rivero, M. L. (1977) Estudios de gramática generativa del español. Madrid: Cátedra.
Selected articles since 1992
Rivero, M. L. (forthcoming) Oblique subjects and person restrictions in Spanish: A morphological approach. In R. D’Alessandro et al., eds. Agreement Restrictions. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Rivero, M. L. (2005) Topics in Bulgarian morphology and syntax: a minimalist perspective. Lingua 115: 1083-1128.
Rivero, M. L. (2004) Spanish Quirky subjects, person restrictions, and the Person-Case Constraint. Linguistic Inquiry 35 : 494-502.
Rivero, M. L. & M. Sheppard (2003) Indefinite Reflexive clitics in Slavic: Polish and Slovenian. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 21: 89-155.
Rivero, M. L. (1997) On two locations for complement clitic pronouns: Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Old Spanish. In A. van Kemenade & N. Vincent, eds. Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change. London: Cambridge University Press, 170-206.
Borsley, R.D., M. L. Rivero & J. Stephens (1996) Long Head Movement in Breton. In R.D. Borsley & I. Roberts, eds. The Syntax of the Celtic Languages. London: Cambridge University Press, 53-74.
Rivero, M. L. & A. Terzi (1995) Imperatives, V-movement, and Logical Mood. Journal of Linguistics 31: 301-332.
Rivero, M. L. (1994) Clause structure and V-movement in the languages of the Balkans. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 12: 63-120.
Rivero, M. L. (1992) Adverb Incorporation and the Syntax of Adverbs in Modern Greek. Linguistics and Philosophy 15: 289-331.