Patricia Schneider-Zioga, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Linguistics / Linguistics Program Coordinator
Biography
I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California. My dissertation examined the syntax of clitic-doubling in Modern Greek. I continue to be fascinated by the syntax of agreeing constructions such as pronominal clitics and subject/verb agreement.
My Erdös number is 5. This number measures how distant I am in co-authorship from the prolific and collaborative mathematician Paul Erdös. The fact that linguists can have an Erdös number demonstrates that at least some linguists have cooperated with mathematicians in order to solve problems in the field of linguistics (or vice versa).
Degrees
Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles
M.A., University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Research Areas
Generative syntax, in particular agreement and anti-agreement; copulas and other linking morphemes; secondary predication; double object constructions; Information structure, pronominal clitics and related syntactic phenomena such as clitic doubling and clitic left dislocation; nominal licensing; causatives. dyslexia. heritage languages.
- languages of interest: Kinande and other Bantu languages; Niger-Congo languages; Modern Greek; Austronesian languages; Ojibwe
Courses Regularly Taught
Linguistic field methods, generative syntax, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, languages of the world, bibliography & research methods, language & gender.
Publications
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia (with Monica Alexandrina Irimia). 2022.
Partitive sharing--how to help in Kinande. Partitives cross-
linguistically: dimensions of variation. special issue of Linguistic
Variation
https://benjamins.com/catalog/lv
(co-authored: Irimia, Monica-Alexandrina & Schneider-Zioga,
Patricia)
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia & Monica Alexandrina Irimia (in press).
Partitives, Case and licensing in Kinande. In Elena
Anagnostopoulou, Dionysios Mertyris & Christina Sevdali (eds.),
On the place of case in grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia. 2021. DOM in Kinande. In Lee Bickmore,
Michael Cahill, Michael Diercks, Laura J Downing, James Essegbey,
Katie Franich, Laura McPherson, Sharon Rose (eds.), Celebrating 50
years of ACAL: Selected Papers from the 50th Annual Conference on
African Linguistics.
(co-authored: Irimia, Monica-Alexandrina & Schneider-Zioga,
Patricia)
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia. (in press). Non-verbal predication in Bantu.
In Jochen Zeller, Lutz Marten, Nancy Kula, & Ellen Hurst (eds.), The
Oxford guide to the Bantu languages. Oxford University Press.
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia. 2019. On the licensing of nominals in
Kinande. In Akumbu, P. & E. P. Chie (eds.),
Engagement with Africa:
Linguistic Essays in Honor of Ngessimo Mutaka.
Rüdiger Köppe
Verlag.
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia. 2019. On the syntax of pronominal
clitics: A view from Greek. In Mónica Cabrera & José Camacho (eds.),
Exploring Interfaces
. Cambridge University Press.
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia & Mutaka, Philip N. 2019. The syntax
and semantics of helping: Sociative causation in Kinande.
The Journal
of African Languages & Linguistics. vol 40(2). 271-310.
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia & Mutaka, Philip N. 2015.
Small clauses &
secondary predication in Kinande.
The Journal of West African
Languages, vol 42(2).
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia & Mutaka, Philip N. 2015. Copular clauses in
Kinande. The Journal of West African Languages, vol 42(2).
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia & Mutaka, Philip N. 2015. The linker in Kinande: a
predication relation.
The Journal of West African Languages, vol 42(2).
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia. 2014. The linker in Kinande re-examined
. In
One Boyer, Ruth Kramer, & Elizabeth Zsiga (eds.), Selected
proceedings of
the 44th Annual Conference of African Linguistics
(pp. 264-276). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia. 2014. Additive Focus in Kinande
. In One
Boyer, Ruth Kramer, & Elizabeth Zsiga (eds.), Selected proceedings
of the 44th Annual Conference of African Linguistics. Cascadilla
Proceedings Project.
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia & Mutaka, Philip Ngessimo. 2014. Technical
Report #12: Linkers & Relators in Kinande
. --> view report
In The Afranaph Project: An online resource for research on African
languages. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
http://www.africananaphora.rutgers.edu/technical-reports-
mainmenu-199
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia. 2014.
Linking, Predication, & Symmetry: On the
Syntax of the Linker in Kinande
. In Thomas Borer, Huilin Fang,
Alfredo Garcia-Pardo, Peter Guekguezian, Brian Hsu, Charlie O'Hara,
Iris Ouyang & Ulrike Steindl (eds.), Proceedings of the 32ndAnnual
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 323-331). Cascadilla
Press.
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia. 2012. Phonological precedence in dyslexia: A case
study. Language Acquisition, 19(3), 183-222.
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia. 2009. Wh-agreement and bounded unbounded
movement. In Jose Brucart, Anna Gavarro, & Jaume Sola (eds.),
Merging features (pp. 46-59). Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Schneider-Zioga, Patricia. 2007. Anti-agreement, anti-locality and
minimality: The syntax of dislocated subjects. Natural Language
and Linguistic Theory 25(2), 403-446.
Scholarly Work
Additional work on copulas in Kinande
-
Agreement asymmetries in non-verbal predication in Kinande
talk & slides from Bantu 8, 2020/2021 - collaborative work with Nancy Hedberg. 2015.
Predication, Specification, & Information Structure in Kinande
. poster GLOW 38
Office Hours
Fall 2023
To be announced
Websites
- member of Corpus Pragmatics & Prosody Lab ; Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, Canada
- Lab established and directed by Nancy Hedberg, Simon Fraser University.