Sierra Miwwok Templates-, Practice Talk for Prosodic & Segmental Patterns in Morpholog

Internal determiners in Pular relative clauses This talk presents novel data from Pular, an Atlantic language spoken in Guinea. I show that in Pular, it is possible to express the determiner for a relative clause in a clause-internal position, directly after any verb. Based on this, I argue for the following claims. First, Pular provides...

Agree is considered one of the fundamental operations of Minimalist Syntax, responsible for establishing long-distance dependencies (e.g. agreement, wh-movement). Various models of Agree have been suggested over the last few...

Towards predicting phonetic drift in heritage speakers

From Points to Polygons: Modelling Spatial Correlation, Practice Talk for Evolang

The Factative Effect in Avatime The Factative Effect (Welmers 1973) is a phenomenon found in many African languages whereby a single aspectual category, often labeled the factative, seemingly has a...

Gradience, phonology and individual variation Research over the last few decades has consistently questioned the sufficiency of abstract/discrete phonological representations based on putative misalignments between predictions from such representations and...