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Education

McGill University BA, 1991
McGill University PhD, 2000.

General areas of academic specialisation

Linguistics, syntax, semantics, morphology, Malagasy syntax, field techniques for linguistics, Austronesian syntax

Current research

Restructuring in Austronesian, Malagasy pronouns, Malagasy DP structure, null pronouns in Malagasy, Malagasy aspect and modality. 

Recent edited volumes

I. Paul (editor). "." University of ÉîÒ¹¸£ÀûÕ¾ Ontario, 2020

I. Paul (guest co-editor with Laura Kalin and Jozina Vander Klok).McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25 (Special Issue in Honour of Lisa Travis). Montreal: McGill, 2018

I. Paul (editor). "." Special issue of ÉîÒ¹¸£ÀûÕ¾ Papers in Linguistics, 2015 

Recent journal articles

(with Vanilla Dimisy, Baholisoa Simone Ralalaoherivony, Jeannot Fils Ranaivoson, and Lisa Travis) Observations on Malagasy presentatives. Oceanic Linguistics 65:41-57. 2026

(with Deborah Allotey) "" Studies in African Linguistics. 52:103-124

(with Eric Potsdam) "". Glossa 9:1-37, 2024

(with Giuliana Giusti and Gianluca Lebani) "." Languages 7:202., 2022

(with Lisa Travis) "Pronominal deficiency: A view from Malagasy." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne De Linguistique, 67(3), 353-382, 2022

(with Diane Massam) "." Journal of Linguistics 57:815-839, 2021

(with Jozina Vander Klok) "". Language 97:e276-e292, 2021

(with Diane Massam) "Une recette pour des arguments nuls." Arborescences 10:113-126, 2020

(with Baholisoa Ralalaoherivony and Henriëtte de Swart). "." Linguistics 58:1285-1322, 2020

." Linguistic Variation 17:292-308, 2017

." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 34:271-305, 2016

Recent published proceedings

2023. Dimisy, Vanilla, Ileana Paul, Baholisoa Simone Ralalaoherivony, Jeannot Fils Ranaivoson, and Lisa Travis. Here’s an analysis: Malagasy presentatives. In Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistic Association.

Ileana Paul and Eric Potsdam. "." In Proceedings of TripleAFLA. 75-88, 2022

Ileana Paul, Lisa Travis, Jozina Vander Klok and Susi Wurmbrand. "Crossed control as voice restructuring." In Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 2021

Ileana Paul and Holly Scott. "." In Proceedings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 2021

Ileana Paul and Diane Massam. "." In Proceedings of Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 2020

"." In Proceedings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 24, (ed.) Matt Pearson. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 61-68, 2019

Jake Aziz and Ileana Paul. ." In Proceedings of the 19^th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. 3792-3796, 2019 

Ileana Paul and Lisa Travis. "." In Proceedings of the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, (eds.) Eszter Ronai, Laura Stigliano and Yenan Sun. Chicago: CLS, 2019

Non refereed publication

Ileana Paul, Jean Lewis Botouhely. "," 2020

"" In L. Kalin, I. Paul and J. Vander Klok (guest editors), F. Gentile and J. Lamontagne (editors), Heading in the right direction: Linguistic treats for Lisa Travis. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25: 324-33, 2018.