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CURRICULUM VITAE
Michelle Troberg

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

1. PERSONAL

University of Toronto Mississauga

Department of Language Studies
4168 North Building
3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6
905-828-3679
michelle.troberg@utoronto.ca
http://sites.utm.utoronto.ca/troberg/

2. DEGREES

2008 Ph.D. University of Toronto, French Linguistics

2003 M.A. University of Toronto, French Linguistics
1997 B.Ed. Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
1994 B.A. University of British Columbia, French Literature

3. EMPLOYMENT

2019- Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Dept. of Language Studies, UTM

2016 -2019 Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Dept. of Language Studies, UTM
2013-2015 Lecturer, Dept. of Language Studies, UTM
2009-2013 Course Instructor, Dept. of Language Studies, UTM
2008-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
2005-2008 Course Instructor, Department of French, University of Toronto

4. HONOURS

• Research Awards
§ Doctoral Thesis Prize in French, University of Toronto 2008
§ Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2007
§ SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship 2005-7

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• Teaching Awards
§ Dean’s Excellence/Small Group Award 2015-2018
§ TA Supervision Excellence Award 2016
§ Course Instructor Award in Linguistics, UTM 2009

• Academic Awards
§ University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship 2004
§ Trentwith and Galipeau French Linguistic Fellowship 2004
§ Department of French Graduate Scholarship 2004
§ University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship 2003
§ Department of French Graduate Scholarship 2003
§ Scace Graduate Fellowship 2002

5. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

• Member of the following Learned Societies:

§ Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
§ Société Internationale de Diachronie du Français
§ Association for French Language Studies
§ The Canadian Linguistics Association
§ The Linguistic Society of America
§ Association des Anciens Elèves, Elèves et Amis de l’École Normale Supérieure, Ulm,
Paris.

• Reviewer of articles and squibs for the following scholarly journals:

§ Linguistic Inquiry, MIT Press
§ Syntax and Semantics, Brill
§ Diachronica, John Benjamins
§ Catalan Journal of Linguistics, Centre de Lingüística Teòrica of the UAB
§ Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge University Press
§ Les Voies du français, Presses de l’Université de Laval
§ Arborescences, Érudit

• Reviewer of abstracts for the following conferences and workshops:

§ Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics
§ Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
§ Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association
§ Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française
§ Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

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ACADEMIC HISTORY

1. RESEARCH ENDEAVOURS

• My research in teaching and learning focuses principally on issues related to large-

enrolment courses and is based on two complementary research methods that aim to shed
insight into student engagement and patterns of student behaviour in order to improve their
degree of active involvement and success in a course. The first is quantitative; in
collaboration with postdoctoral fellow Eugenia Suh, I am developing a model of learning
analytics for large online courses. The second is qualitative; I apply critical pedagogy to
online and hybrid courses using methods recommended by critical action research.

• My research in linguistics involves language change: correlations (what structural changes

tend to co-occur), directionality, triggers (internal or external causes of change), and the
acquisition process as the explanatory force behind diachronic change. Specifically, I
investigate the evolution of various syntactic subsystems from Latin through Old Romance
and into Modern Romance (mainly varieties of French).

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of French, University of Toronto 2008-09

(Supervisor: Yves Roberge; PI: A-M Di Sciullo)
The syntactic representation of non-thematic dative arguments and the notion of syntactic
“relation” as it concerns language variation and change

• Research Assistant, Department of French, University of Toronto

§ Interface Asymmetry Project 2004-07

(Supervisor: Yves Roberge)
§ Research in Early French Lexicography 2003-09
(Supervisor: Brian Merrilees)
§ The Phonology of French-based Creoles 2003-05
(Supervisors: A.-M. Brousseau; E. Nikiema)

2. RESEARCH AWARDS

• Learning and Education Advancement Fund, University of Toronto 2016-19

Predictive and Adaptive Learning Analytics in Online and
Hybrid Course Delivery ($45,000)

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3. DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

• Decanal Graduate Education Fund Grant, UTM 2016-2017

($9,000)
• Ontario Online Initiative, Ministry of Training, Colleges, 2014
and Universities ($75,000)
• Online Undergraduate Course Initiative, University of Toronto 2013-14
($12,000)
• Active Learning: Online Redesign, UTM 2013-14
($3,000)
• Writing Development Initiative, UTM 2012-17
($57,176)

SCHOLARLY WORK

1. BOOKS

2013. Change of Object Expression in the History of French: Verbs of Helping and Hindering.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2. REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS

Forthcoming. Large online undergraduate courses: The demise of critical pedagogy? In A.

Gagné et al. Equity in Higher Education Theory, Policy, and Praxis. Peter Lang. (with Amir
Kalan)
2017. From Latin to Modern French: A punctuated shift. In E. Mathieu and R. Truswell Micro-
change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax, 104-124. Oxford University Press. (with
Heather Burnett)
2016. Les facteurs de choix de l’auxiliaire en ancien français: étude quantitative. In S. Prévost
and B. Fagard, Le français en diachronie: dépendances syntaxiques, morphosyntaxe verbale,
grammaticalisation, 218-237. Bern: Peter Lang (with Patrick Caudal and Heather Burnett).

3. REFEREED ARTICLES

2017. Mobilizing Practitioner Action Research to Foster Critical Pedagogy in a Large Online
Undergrad University Course. Selected papers from the Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association: Knowledge in Action: Achieving the Promise of Equal
Educational Opportunity, San Antonio, Texas, April 27-May 1, 2016. (with Amir Kalan)
2014. The diachronic semantics of resultative secondary predication in French. Empirical Issues
in Syntax and Semantics 10, ed. Christopher Piñón, 37-54. (with Heather Burnett)

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2014. Le prédicat résultatif adjectival en français médiéval. Linguisticae Investigationes 37(1) :
152-176. (with Heather Burnett)
2011. Directed motion in Medieval French. In J. Herschensohn Romance Linguistics 2010:
Selected Papers from the 40th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle,
Washington March 2010, 117-136. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2011. From indirect to direct object: Systematic change in 15th century French. Diachronica
28(3): 382-422.
2010. Les objets indirects en français: sens, représentations, évolution. In C. LeBlanc, F.
Martineau & Y. Frenette, Vues sur les français d’ici, 77-113. Québec: Presses de l'Université
Laval (with Sarah Cummins and Yves Roberge).
2009. The high applicative syntax of the dativus commodi/incommodi in Romance. Probus
21(2) : 247-287 (with Yves Roberge).
2008. Une étude diachronique des verbes datifs en français. In B. Fagard, S. Prévost, B.
Combettes, and O. Bertrand, Evolutions en français: études de linguistique diachronique, 385-
403. Bern: Peter Lang.
2007. Thematic indirect arguments in French. Journal of French Language Studies 17(3): 297-
321 (with Yves Roberge).
2005. La persistance du complémenteur nul chez les apprenants anglophones du français langue
seconde. In K. Karenova, C. Lebrec, C. Morgan & M. Pillet, De l’autre côté du miroir :
translations, déplacements, adaptations., 21 pages.
Available at: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/SESDEF/miroir/troberg.pdf

4. REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS

2019. “Le français médiéval : période charnière entre une grammaire à cadrage satellitaire et une
grammaire à cadrage verbal”. Le français en diachronie (Diachro IX), March 28-30, Universidad
de Salamanca.
2019. “Fostering Critical Pedagogy in a Large Online Undergrad University Course”. Ethnography
in Education Research Forum, February 22-23, University of Pennsylvania (with Amir Kalan).
2018. “Predictive Learning Analytics in Large Online and Hybrid Course Delivery”. Society for
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Annual Conference. June 19-22,
Sherbrooke, Quebec (with Eugenia Suh).
2018. “Diachronic reanalysis and the satellite versus verb-framed distinction”. 48th Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL). Special Workshop on Romance Diachrony at
the Interfaces. April 25, York University, Toronto.
2017. “Adpositions of Result in Medieval French”. Morphosyntactic Variation in Adpositions.
Queen’s College, Cambridge. May 8-9.
2017. “Result-to-v Raising in Medieval French”. 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages, April 20-23, University of Delaware.
2017. “Mobilizing Practitioner Action Research to Foster Critical Pedagogy in a Large Online
Undergrad University Course”. ARNA (Action Research Network Association) Conference
Proceedings. June 16-18, 2016. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (with Amir
Kalan).
2015. “Les facteurs de choix de l’auxiliaire en ancien français: étude quantitative et
comparative ”. Diachro-VII, February 5-7, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 and Ecole
Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (with Heather Burnett and Patrick Caudal).

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2014. “L’intransitivité scindée et la sélection variable d’auxiliaire en ancien français”. Atelier
international sur l’exploitation du corpus parsé d’ancien et de moyen français. October 3-4,
Université du Québec à Montréal (with Heather Burnett)
2013. “Changes at the syntax-semantics interface: from Latin to Modern French”. 15th
Conference on Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGSXV), August 2-4, University of Ottawa
(with Heather Burnett).
2012. “Changement typologique en français: du cadrage satellitaire au cadrage verbal”. Diachro
VI, October 17-19, 2012, University of Leuven, Belgium (with Heather Burnett).
2011. “Typological shift: From satellite- to verb-framed in French. Workshop on verbal
elasticity: Framing the verb/satellite distinction from a biolinguistic perspective”. October 3-5,
Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (with Heather
Burnett).
2011. “On the non-uniformity of secondary predication: Evidence from the history of French”.
41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 41), May 5-7, 2011, University of
Ottawa (with Heather Burnett and Mireille Tremblay).
2010. “Directionality and the loss of PathP in Medieval French”. 40th Linguistic Symposium on
Romance Languages (LSRL 40), March 26-28, University of Washington.
2010. “The dative benefactive/adversative in Romance”. LSRL 40, March 26-28, University of
Washington (with Yves Roberge).
2009. “The double object construction in Old French: a preliminary assessment of change”. 13th
annual Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, December 4-5, McGill University.
2009. “From indirect to direct object: Change of complementation in 15th century” French. 19th
International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Aug. 10-15, Radboud University,
Nijmegen.
2009. “Goal of motion, particles, and datives in Medieval French”. Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Linguistics Association, May 23-25, Carleton University.
2009. “Syntaxe et sémantique des verbes à relation”. Annual Meeting of the Canadian
Linguistics Association, May 23-25, Carleton University (with Sarah Cummins and Yves
Roberge).
2008. “Réanalyse et EPP”. 12th annual Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, December
5-6, University of Ottawa (with Yves Roberge).
2008. “Diachronic change as evidence of event structure: Two-place dative verbs in French”.
NORMS Workshop on Argument Structure, Feb. 5-6, Center of Language and Literature,
Lund University.
2007. “Les objets indirects non thématiques en français”. Annual Meeting of the Canadian
Linguistics Association, May 26-29, University of Saskatchewan (with Yves Roberge).
2007. “Transitivity as coercion”. Workshop on Polysemy and Conceptual Representation,
February 28- May 2, Siegen, Germany (with David Fournier and Yves Roberge).
2006. “Accounting for optional implicit objects – without additional primitives”. 10th annual
Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, December 10, Queens University (with David
Fournier).
2006. “Une étude diachronique des verbes bivalents datifs en français”. Diachro-III : évolutions
en français, September 20-22, Paris.
2006. “Valency change in French interaction verbs: A preliminary study”. Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Linguistics Association, May 27-30, York University.

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2006. “Arguments indirects et modes d’association”. Annual Meeting of the Canadian
Linguistics Association, May 27-30, York University (with Y. Roberge).
2005. “La Persistance du complémenteur nul chez les apprenants anglophones du français langue
seconde. 10e Colloque de la SESDEF. De l’autre côté du miroir : translations, déplacements,
adaptations, April 8-9, University of Toronto.
2004. “L’Alternance causative-inchoative : de la variation au changement valentiel. 8th annual
Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, December 10, York University.

5. REFEREED POSTER PRESENTATIONS

2019. “Lessons learned: Learning analytics in a high-enrollment online course”. Poster presented
at the 13th annual University of Toronto Teaching and Learning Symposium, May 28, 2019
(with Eugenia Suh).
2019. “Romance verb particles through time and space: A new contribution from Old French”.
Poster presented at the 49th LSRL, May 1-4, 2019, University of Georgia, Athens.
2018. “Change and loss of P-elements: A case study of fors and hors in the history of French”.
The Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting. May 30-June 1, University of Regina (with
Maya Krol and Meena Ahmad).
2018. “The diachrony of the particle fors/hors in the history of French”. 48th Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages. April 26-28, York University, Toronto (with Maya Krol
and Meena Ahmad).
2017. “Jus: A portrait of a verb particle in Medieval French”. The Canadian Linguistics
Association Meeting. May 27-29, Ryerson University (with Patricia Wysblocka).

6. NON-REFEREED ARTICLES

2007. Les objets indirects non thématiques en français. In Proceedings of the 2007 Canadian
Linguistics Association Annual Conference, ed. M. Rasidic, 14 pages (with Y. Roberge).
Available at: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/actes2007/Roberge_Troberg.pdf
2006. Arguments indirects et modes d'association. In Proceedings of the 2006 Canadian
Linguistics Association Annual Conference, ed. C. Gurski & M. Radisic, 15 pages (with Y.
Roberge). Available at: http://ling.uwo.ca/publications/CLA2006/Roberge_Troberg.pdf
2004. Topic-comment resumptive pronouns in Modern French and Old and Middle French.
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 23(1): 133-156.
2004. Vers une nouvelle édition du glossaire latin-français l’Aalma. In Pour acquérir honneur et
pris: mélanges de moyen français en hommage à Giuseppe Di Stefano, ed. M. Colombo
Timelli & C. Galderisi, 287-292. Montreal: CERES (third author with Brian Merrilees and
William Edwards).

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7. INVITED TALKS

2018. “Determiner strength and the development of determiners from two sources”. June 28-29,
2018, INALCO, Paris, for the 31st Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics (with John
Whitman and Rina Winarto)
2015. “Results of fine-grained variation in Path: From Latin to Modern French”. October 16,
Ulster University, Belfast (with Heather Burnett).
2010. “Relation verbs”. Centre d'Études de Linguistique Anglaise, Université Paul-Valéry,
Montpellier (with Sarah Cummins and Yves Roberge).
2009. “Particles, datives, and path: Three changes in verb complementation, one cause”.
Département de linguistique et de traduction, Université de Montréal, Québec.
2008. “Les objets indirects en français : sens, représentations, évolution”. Les Français d’ici,
May 22-25, University of Ottawa (with Sarah Cummins and Yves Roberge).
2007. “Case for change: From Marie aide à Jean to Marie aide Jean”. Department of French,
University of California, Berkeley.
2006. “Internal forces of change in French: The Germanic syntax of Old French”. Department of
French, University of Toronto.

8. BOOK REVIEWS

Heidi Harley. 2006. English words: A linguistic introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Canadian
Journal of Linguistics 54(1): 186-188.

9. MANUSCRIPTS

Mélanges en l’honneur d’Yves Roberge. Special issue of Arborescences (editor, with Sandrine
Tailleur).
“Une brève histoire de hors: transitivité et sélection”. To be submitted to Mélanges en l’honneur
d’Yves Roberge. Special issue of Arborescences. Troberg, M. et S. Tailleur (eds.). 20 pages.
“From Latin to Romance: Intermediate systems in the shift from satellite-framed to verb-framed”.
40 pages.

COURSES TAUGHT
• LIN100H5 Introduction to General Linguistics
• LIN101H5 Introduction to General Linguistics: The Sounds of Language
• LIN200H5 Introduction to Language
• LIN204H5 English Grammar I
• LIN232H5 Introduction to Syntactic Patterns
• LIN231H5 Introduction to Morphological Patterns
• LIN237H5 Semantics and Pragmatics
• LIN369H5 Romance Linguistics
• LIN360H5 Historical Linguistics

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• LIN410H5 Critical Reading and Writing in English Linguistics
• LIN460H5 Topics in Language Change
• LIN495H5 Independent Study: Peer-led study groups in LIN101/2 (FSG)
• LIN496Y5 Independent Study: Tonogenesis in Korean
• LIN399Y5 ROP: Resultative Secondary Predication in Medieval French

• FSL6000H1 Reading French

• FRE172H1 French Grammar, Within Reason
• FRE272H1/H5 La Structure du français modern
• FRE399Y5 ROP: La Prédication Secondaire Résultative en Français Médiéval
• FRE491H5 Independent Study: La prédication résultatif adjectival en français médiéval I :
Théorie
• FRE492H5 Independent Study: La prédication résultatif adjectival en français médiéval II :
Application

ADMINISTRATIVE POSTIONS

UTM: Acting Chair, Department of Language Studies 2019 (June)

UTM: Promotion committee: Teaching stream (DLS) 2019
UTM: Workload Policy and Procedures committee (DLS) 2019
UTM: SoTL Fellowship committee (through the RGASC) 2018-19
UTM: ELLI committee (through the RGASC) 2017-19
UTM: Advisory Committee to the Vice-Principal Academic and Dean 2017-18
Temporary (acting) appointments: Vice-Dean Faculty;
Vice-Dean Teaching and Learning; V-P Academic and Dean
UTM: Advisory Committee for the Robert Gillespie Academic Centre 2016-20
UTM: Advisory Committee to the Vice-Principal Academic and Dean 2016
Full term appointments: Vice-Dean Faculty;
Vice-Dean Academic Experience; Vice-Dean Teaching and Learning;
Associate Dean, Graduate; Associate Dean, Undergraduate
UTM: Hiring committee (sociolinguistics) 2016
UTM: Hiring committee (phonology/phonetics) 2015-16
UTM: Working group for Undergraduate Degree Level Expectations 2015-16
UTM: Advisory Search Committee 2015
Vice-Principal Academic and Dean
UTM: Undergraduate Advisor of Linguistics Programs 2013-18
UTM: Member of sessional lecturer promotions committee 2013
UTM: Member of Curriculum Committee 2012-13

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