I'm Sam (he/him), a PhD candidate in Spanish linguistics at the University of Toronto. In my thesis, I explore a structure-driven approach to the interpretation of nominal and pronominal 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 and an AB in Hispanic Studies and Performance Studies at Brown University.
You can reach me at samuel [.] jambrovic [@] utoronto.ca. I'd love to hear from you!
Latest updates:
My talk "Defending predicativism: Lessons from Barbie" (slides) received an honourable mention at the 2024 CLA Meeting.
I have two new papers available on LingBuzz: Arguments in Spanish are not uniformly DPs (to appear in the WCCFL 41 Proceedings) and Pronominal structure and the third-person gap in Spanish (to appear in the WCCFL 42 Proceedings).