Ida Toivonen
Professor (Linguistics/Cognitive Science)
- B.A. (Brandeis), Ph.D. (Stanford)
- 2206A Dunton Tower, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Email Ida Toivonen
- 613-520-2600 ext 1202
Research Interests
- syntax
- lexical semantics
- morphosyntax
- Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian languages
- phonetics
Courses Previously Taught
- ALDS 5301/CGSC 5003: Language and Cognition
- CGSC 2002:Theories and Methods in Cognitive Science
- CGSC 3301: Language and Cognitive Science
- CGSC 5100: Issues in Cognitive Science
- CGSC 6800: Proseminar in Cognitive Science
- LING 1001: Introduction to Linguistics I
- LING 1100: The Mysteries of Language
- LING 2505/PHIL 3506: Semantics I
- LING 3004: Syntax I
- LING 4002: Syntax II
- LING 4009: Special Topic in Linguistics
Recent Publications
Van Luven, K., & Toivonen, I. (2024). The obligatoriness of arguments. Language and Linguistics Compass, e12511.
Mary Dalrymple and Ida Toivonen. 2023. Word classes in Lexical Functional Grammar. In: Eva van Lier (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes. Oxford University Press. Chapter 15, 281–301.
Ida Toivonen. 2023. Pronoun incorporation. In: Mary Dalrymple (ed.), The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar. (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax 13). Berlin: Language Science Press. Chapter 13, 563–601. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10037797
Ida Toivonen. 2023. The experience, representational content, and epistemology of perceptual and intellectual impressions. [Review of Elijah Chudnoff’s Forming Impressions: Expertise in perception and intuition. Metascience 32: 67–70.
Ida Toivonen. 2023. Review of Leiv Inge Aa’s Norwegian Verb Particles (Studies in Germanic Linguistics 4). Nordic Journal of Linguistics 46(3): 432–441. DOI:10.1017/S0332586522000038
Ida Toivonen. 2021. Perception verbs, copy raising, and evidentiality in Swedish and English. In Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh, and Tracy Holloway King (eds.), Modular Design of Grammar: Linguistics on the Edge. A Festschrift for Mary Dalrymple. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 149–159.
Ida Toivonen. 2021. Arguments and adjuncts across levels. In: Miriam Butt, Jamie Findlay and Ida Toivonen (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG21 Conference, 306–331. Stanford: CSLI Publications.