Diane Massam is a Canadian linguist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.
She earned her PhD in linguistics under Noam Chomsky[1][2] in 1985 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[3] She held a position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto from 1989 until her retirement in 2017, when she became professor emeritus.
[4][5] Massam specializes in the syntax of Niuean, an Austronesian language spoken in the South Pacific country of Niue.
She was a keynote speaker at the 21st annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) in 2014.