Research

This page is up-to-date as of: 10-Sept-2024.
This page lists selectd projects. For a more complete list, see my CV. Please get in touch for any papers not available here.

Publications

Proceedings and Working Papers

• A-bar clefts in Kirundi and elsewhere. (in press). WCCFL 41 Proceedings. [download]

• What’s in a copula: Non-verbal predication in Kirundi. (in press). Toronto Working Papers in Lingustics.

• Propositional Attitude Verbs and Complementizers in Medumba. (2021). Proceedings of ACAL 49. Language Sciences Press. (with Rachel Lee, and Carolin Tyrchan.) [link] [download]

• Deverbal Nominalizations in Ktunaxa. (2020). Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation 4, 60-77. [link] [download]

Presentations

2024

• Two Optional Past “Tenses” in Kanien’kéha (2024). [handout]
  • Talk presented at the 42nd West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), University of California, Berkeley, 12–14 April.
  • Talk presented at the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 27, University of Toronto, 26–28 April.
  • Talk presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 34, University of Rochester, 28–30 May.

2023

• Focus fronting and copular constructions in Kirundi (2023). [handout]
  • Talk presented at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) 54, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 12-14 June.
  • Talk presented at the BaSIS conference, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 8-9 June.

• Kirundi Ā-movement and non-verbal predication (2023). Poster presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 41, UC Santa Cruz, 5-7 May.

• with Tehokwiráthe Cross, Katya Morgunova, Willie Myers, Ro’nikonhkátste Norton. Lexical aspect and the stative present in Kanien’kéha (2023). Talk presented at Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 2023, McGill University, Montréal, 28-30 April.

• with Rose Underhill & Anne Bertrand. A typology of roots in Ktunaxa (2023). Talk presented at Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 2023, McGill University, Montréal, 28-30 April.

2022

• What’s in a copula: Non-verbal predication in Kirundi. (2022). Talk presented at Ba-TOM: The 1st Toronto-Montreal Bantu Colloquium, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, 27-28 May 2022.

• The composition of Ktunaxa causatives: Argument- and event-structure restrictions. (2022). Poster presented at the Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Meeting, online.

• Building Ktunaxa Causatives. (2022). Talk presented at The 10th Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop (MOTH), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, 22-23 April.

2019

• Deverbal Nominalizations in Ktunaxa. (2019). The 8th Workshop on Nominalizations/8èmes Journées d’Etude sur les Nominalisation (Jenom 8). University of Stuttgart, Germany, 21-22 June.

Manuscripts

• Paper on Ktunaxa causatives.
• Paper on Kirundi focus fronting and copular clauses. [download]