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Dave McKercher has a B.Sc. in Biochemistry (University of Calgary, 1985), a B.Ed. in General Curriculum (UVic, 1987), an M.A. in Linguistics (UVic, 1996), and a Ph.D. in Linguistics (Stanford University, 2001). Before starting his graduate work in Linguistics, Dave worked as Laboratory Instructor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at UVic, teaching a third-year laboratory techniques course. His primary research interests are in semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and first language acquisition. Dave's dissertation was on children's acquisition of the English preposition 'with' and how children deal with its multiple uses (You can eat pizza with a fork, with a friend, with enthusiasm, and with the lights out). Dave has been a Sessional Lecturer at Simon Fraser University and an Assistant Professor (Limited Term) at University of Toronto. He is now a Continuing Sessional Instructor here at UVic.