I'm Sam (he/him), a fifth-year PhD candidate in Spanish linguistics at the University of Toronto. In my thesis, I explore a structure-driven approach to the interpretation of nominal expressions in Spanish. My supervisor is María Cristina Cuervo, and my committee members are Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Suzi Lima, and Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux.
My broader interests include the morphosyntax and semantics of the noun phrase, particularly gender, number, and reference to kinds.
I hold a SSHRC-funded Canada Graduate Scholarship (2021–24) and am a research assistant for the SSHRC-funded project The Syntax of Nominal Linkers (PI: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour).
Before coming to Toronto, I completed an MA in Linguistics and an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing at the University of Iowa.
You can reach me at samuel [.] jambrovic [@] utoronto.ca. I'd love to hear from you!
Latest updates:
I gave a talk ("The third-person gap as a window into Spanish pronominal structure") at WCCFL 42 in April. The handout is available here.
I have two new papers available on LingBuzz: Arguments in Spanish are not uniformly DPs (to appear in the WCCFL 41 Proceedings) and Reference to singular kinds in Germanic and Romance (to appear in the 2023 CLA Proceedings).
I am teaching SPA221: Spanish Pronunciation and SPA322/SPA1093: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics this term.
Mohammed Hassan and I have a paper, Nominal linkers in Central Kurdish (Silemānī variety), in the latest issue of Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.