{"id":39,"date":"2016-10-09T21:54:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T04:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gitksanlab\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2020-08-17T11:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T18:41:01","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gitksanlab\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Current Projects<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Collection of Oral Histories and Personal Stories &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/files\/2017\/08\/Gitlab_3Stories_final.pdf\">small sample here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mothertongues.org\/gitksan\/\">Mother Tongues Dictionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Exploration into the Aspect system<\/li>\n<li>The Acoustic and Articulatory phonetics of glottalization<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; and more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications on Gitksan by current and former lab members (contact us for access if needed)<\/h3>\n<p>Brown, Jason 2008. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/Browndissertation_0.pdf\">Theoretical Aspects of Gitksan Phonology<\/a>. PhD dissertation, University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, Jason and Henry Davis 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/BrownandDavisICSNL2010.pdf\">WH moves in Gitksan. But where? And how?<\/a>. Papers for the 45th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, Eugene, UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, Jason, Henry Davis, Michael Schwan and Barbara Sennott. 2016. Gitksan (Illustrations of the IPA).\u00a0<em>Journal of the International\u00a0<\/em><em>Phonetic Association<\/em>46(3): 367\u2013378.<\/p>\n<p>Bicevskis, Katie, Henry Davis and Lisa Matthewson. 2017. Quantification in Gitksan. In D. Paperno and E. Keenan (eds.),\u00a0<em>Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language, Volume II.\u00a0<\/em>Springer International: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 97, 281-382.<\/p>\n<p>Chen, Sihwei, Vera Hohaus, Rebecca Laturnus, Meagan Louie,\u2028Lisa Matthewson, Hotze Rullmann, Ori Simchen, Claire K. Turner and Jozina Vander Klok. 2017. Past possibility cross-linguistically: Evidence from 12 languages. In Ana Arregui, Maria-Luisa Rivero and Andres Salanova (eds.), <em>Modality Across Syntactic Categories. <\/em>Oxford: Oxford University Press, 236-287.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, Henry in press. Only Connect: A Unified Analysis of the Tsimshianic Connective System.\u00a0<em>International Journal of\u00a0<\/em><em>American Linguistics\u00a0<\/em>84(4): 471-511.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, Henry and Jason Brown 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/DavisandBrownICSNL2010_1.pdf\">Precedence vs. C-command: the curious case of binding in Gitksan<\/a>. Papers for the 45th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, Henry and Jason Brown 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/lingserver.arts.ubc.ca\/linguistics\/sites\/default\/files\/2011_Davis_Brown.pdf\">On A&#8217;-Dependencies in Gitksan<\/a>. <i>Papers for the 46th International<\/i> <i>Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages,<\/i> Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics 30: 43-80.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, Henry and Clarissa Forbes. 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/lingserver.arts.ubc.ca\/linguistics\/sites\/default\/files\/14-Davis_Forbes_ICSNL50_final-32.pdf\">Connect Four! The morphosyntax of argument marking in Tsimshianic<\/a>. In <i>Proceedings of the 50th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages<\/i>. Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics 40:155-185.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, Henry, Carrie Gillon and Lisa Matthewson 2014. How to Investigate Linguistic Diversity: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest. <em>Language\u00a0<\/em>90(4):e180-e226.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, Henry, Carrie Gillon and Lisa Matthewson. 2015<em>. <\/em>Diversity Driven But Cognitively Constrained: Boas Meets Chomsky (Response to Commentators). <em>Language <\/em>91(3):e127-e143.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/lingserver.arts.ubc.ca\/linguistics\/sites\/default\/files\/2012_Forbes.pdf\">Gitxsan adjectives: evidence from nominal modification<\/a>. In <i>Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages<\/i>. UBCWPL 32. 49-68.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/homes.chass.utoronto.ca\/~cla-acl\/actes2013\/Forbes-2013.pdf\">Associative plurality in the Gitksan nominal domain<\/a>. In <i>Proceedings of the 2013 Canadian Linguistic Association<\/i>, University of Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/cla-acl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Forbes-2014.pdf\">On apparent nominal coordination in Gitksan<\/a>. In <i>Proceedings of the 2014 Canadian Linguistic Association<\/i>, Brock University.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/0mk28owjilpvjbk\/2014%20WSCLA%20-%20Gitksan%20stress.pdf?dl=0\">Gitksan root stress: Modeling the path to lexical accent<\/a>. In <i>Proceedings of WSCLA 19<\/i>, UBCWPL 39. 79-93.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/cla-acl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/actes-2017\/Forbes_C.2017CLAProceedingsPaper.pdf\">Extraction morphosyntax and wh-agreement in Gitksan: The case for accusativity<\/a>. In <i>Proceedings of the 2017 Canadian Linguistic Association<\/i>, Ryerson University.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/y1gk3p4d5k10q03\/2017%20NELS%20-%20IT%20nom%20types.pdf?dl=0\">Persistent ergativity and split absolutive agreement in Gitksan.<\/a> In Lamont, A. and K. Tetzloff, <i>Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society<\/i> 2, GLSA. 11-24.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2018.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/0dlhw72lwzo1awv\/2018%20Henrypaper%20-%20binding%20PROOF.pdf?dl=0\">On binding in Gitksan<\/a>. In Matthewson, L., E. Guntly and M. Rochemont (eds.), <i>Wa7 xweys\u00e1s i nqwal\u2019utten\u00edha i ucwalm\u00edcwa: He loves the people\u2019s languages. Essays in honour of Henry Davis<\/i>. Vancouver, BC: UBCOPL 6. 111-126.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. to appear. Number, names, and animacy: Noun classes and plural interactions in Gitksan. In Mathieu et al. (eds.)\u00a0<i>Gender and noun classification<\/i>, Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. to appear. Consequences of long-distance extraction morphology in Gitksan. In <i>Proceedings of WSCLA 22<\/i>, UBCWPL.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa, Henry Davis, Michael D. Schwan, and the UBC Gitksan Research Laboratory. 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/files\/2017\/08\/Gitlab_3Stories_final.pdf\">Three Gitksan Texts<\/a>. In <em>Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 52, Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics 43: 47-89.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Littell, Patrick, Lisa Matthewson and Tyler Peterson. 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/Littell.et_.al_.pdf\">On the Semantics of<br \/>\nConjectural Questions<\/a>. In Evidence from Evidentiality, ed. Tyler Peterson and Uli<br \/>\nSauerland, Vancouver: UBCWPL.<\/p>\n<p>Matthewson, Lisa. 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/MatthewsonGitksanModalscorrected.pdf\">Gitksan Modals<\/a>. <em>International Journal of American Linguistics\u00a0<\/em><span lang=\"EN-US\">79:349-39.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Matthewson, Lisa and Neda Todorovi\u0107. in press. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Temporal properties of attitude complements: The Serbian \u2013 Gitksan connection. <\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. <\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Amherst, MA: GLSA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Peterson, Tyler. 2006a.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/Petersonindependent.pdf\">Issues in Investigating the Distribution of the Independent Pronouns in Gitksan<\/a>. Ms., UBC.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, Tyler 2006b. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/Petersonergativity.PDF\">Issues of Morphological Ergativity in the Tsimshian<br \/>\nLanguages: Determiners, Agreement and the Reconstruction of Case<\/a>. In<br \/>\nCase, Valency and Transitivity (Studies in Language Companion Series 77).<br \/>\nL. Kulikov, A. Malchukov, and P. de Swart (eds), Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 65-90.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, Tyler 2008. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/PetersonNELSblocking.pdf\">Pragmatic Blocking in Gitksan Evidential\u00a0Expressions<\/a>. In Proceedings of the 38th Meeting of the North East\u00a0Linguistic Society, A. Schardl, M. Walkow, M. Abdurrahman (eds), Amherst,\u00a0MA: GLSA Publications.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, Tyler 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/Petersondissertation.pdf\">Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Gitksan at\u00a0the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface<\/a>. PhD dissertation, UBC.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, Tyler 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/PetersonBLS.pdf\">Some Remarks on the Morphosemantics of Multiple\u00a0Causative Sequences<\/a>. In Papers from the 32nd Annual Meeting of the\u00a0Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley: BLS.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Rullmann, Hotze and Lisa Matthewson. 2018. A Theory of Modal-Temporal Interactions. <i>Language\u00a0<\/i>94(2):281-331<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Presentations (selection only)<\/h3>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Brown, Colin and Clarissa Forbes. <b>2018<\/b>. Three (hidden) obliques in Gitksan. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Salt Lake City, UT. Jan 4-7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Davis, Henry 2011.<i> <\/i>WH-Relatives in Interior Tsimshianic<i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><i>Universi<wbr \/>ty of Victoria Workshop on Relative Clauses<\/i>, University of Victoria<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Davis, Henry and Colin Brown. 2014. Focus and Negative Ellipsis in Gitksan<i>. <\/i><i>49<\/i><\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">th<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0International Conference on Salish and Neighboring\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i>Languages (ICSNL).<\/i>\u00a0 Coeur\u00a0D\u2019Alene Reservation, Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, Henry. 2016. Case and Agreement in Coast Tsimshian.<i> <\/i>Slides,<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA)<\/i> 21, Universit\u00e9\u00a0 de Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa 2012a. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/ForbesUoTWW2012gitRC_0.pdf\">Gitksan relative clauses: a diagnostic for adjectives<\/a>. Paper presented at the University of Toronto Welcome Workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2012b. Gitxsan adjectives: Evidence from nominal modification. Presented at the 47th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages. Cranbrook, BC.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2013. Number in the Gitksan nominal domain: Plural [plural] projections. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. University of Victoria, BC.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2014. On the absence of nominal coordination in Gitksan. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Brock University, ON. May 24-25.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2014. Gitksan root stress: Modeling the path to lexical accent. Presented at the 19th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas. Memorial University, NF. April 25-27.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2015. Number, names, and animacy: Nominal classes and plural interactions in Gitksan. Invited presentation at Gender, Class, and Determination: A Conference on the Nominal Spine. University of Ottawa, Sep 18-20.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, Henry and Clarissa Forbes. 2015. Connect Four! The morphosyntax of argument marking in Tsimshianic. Presented at the 50th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages. University of British Columbia, Aug 5-7.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/7dau769u8j21yjm\/2015-07_ICHL_caf-gitstressandLA_3.pdf?dl=0\">Acquiring accentual (un)predictability in morphological domains: Root stress in Gitksan.<\/a>\u00a0Presented at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics, special workshop: Diachronic morphophonology: lexical accent systems. University of Naples, Italy, July 31.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2015. Gitksan person paradigms. Presented at the Contrast in Syntax Workshop in honour of Elizabeth Cowper. University of Toronto, ON. April 24-25.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2016. Agreement and aggressive ergativity in Gitksan. Presented at the 47th North East Linguistics Society. University of Massachusetts: Amherst, Oct 14-16.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/mee37ea0tzr6ka4\/2016-09%20-%20DimensionsofD%20Rochester%20handout.pdf?dl=0\">Determinacy and [DETERMINATE]: Nominal projections and features in Gitxsanimx.<\/a> Poster presentation at Dimensions of D workshop. University of Rochester, Sep 17-18.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2017. Extraction morphosyntax and <i>wh<\/i>-agreement in Gitksan: The case for accusativity. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Ryerson University, May 27-29.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2017. Consequences of long-distance extraction morphology in Gitksan. Invited presentation at the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas 22. University of British Columbia, Apr 21-23.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2017. Persistent ergativity in cross-Tsimshianic agreement. Invited presentation at the University of Victoria linguistics colloquium. Mar 16.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes, Clarissa. 2018. Transitivity and accusativity in Gitksan wh-agreement. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Salt Lake City, UT. Jan 4-7.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, Tyler 2012a. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ubc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/petersonSULA6.pdf\">The Role of the Ordering Source in Gitksan Modals<\/a>.\u00a0In proceedings of Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas\u00a06, Amherst: GLSA.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, Tyler 2012b. The Role of Documenting Semantics and Pragmatics in Understudied Languages. Talk presented in the Cambridge Endangered Languages\u00a0and Cultures series, Cambridge University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Projects Collection of Oral Histories and Personal Stories &#8211; small sample here Mother Tongues Dictionary Exploration into the Aspect system The Acoustic and Articulatory phonetics of glottalization &#8230; and more! 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