Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies - Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
Distinguished Research Professor
Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext. 88849
embleton@yorku.caKey Areas of Expertise
- Linguistics
- Language change
- Dialect and slang
- Origin of words (etymology)
- Personal names and place names
- Stereotypes that come with uncommon names e.g. ethnicity, femininity
- Mathematical and statistical methods in historical linguistics
- Women and language
- Higher education, post-secondary education
- Internationalization in higher education
Languages
French
GermanSpanishItalianRussianFinnish
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Awards
Insight Development Grant, “China, India and the Challenge to Canada's 'Diplomacy of Knowledge”: A Comparative Study of the Internationalization of Higher Education - 2014 - 2016
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Membership Development Grant - 2013
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
Insight Grant, The Nature of Dialect: Exploring Dialect Relationships with an Expanded Online Dialect Atlas - 2012 - 2016
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Senior Fellow of Massey College - 2012 - 2015
University of Toronto
Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal - 2012
Award for Outstanding Contribution to Internationalization - 2011
York University
Recognition Award - 2011
Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC)
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada - 2010
Standard Research Grant, The Romanian Online Dialect Atlas II - 2008 - 2011
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Twenty Third International Congress of Onomastic Sciences - 2008
SSHRCC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada
Internationalization Leadership Award - 2005
Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE)
Fellow for Encouragement of Arts - 2000
Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
Knight First Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland - 1999
Affiliations
Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Chair of the Board
Royal Society of Canada
Honorary Secretary
TOEFL (ETS, Princeton, NJ)
Member of the Board
TOEFL (ETS, Princeton, NJ)
Member of the Committee of Examiners
York University Faculty Association
Chief Steward
York University
Former Vice-President Academic and Provost (2000 - 2009)
York University
Former Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts (1994 - 2000)
Stong College, York University
Fellow
Mitacs
Former Special Advisor to the President and CEO
Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE)
Senior Adviser
Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, York University
Member
International Linguistic Association
Member
Linguistic Society of America
Member
International Quantitative Linguistics Association
Former President, Member
International Council of Onomastic Sciences
Former President, Member
Centre for Research on Language Contact, Glendon, York University
Member
Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki
Member
Evidence and Policy Research Group
Associate
Mprime
Former Member of the Board of Directors
Canadian Friends of Finland Education Foundation
President
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