Current lab members (affiliated with UBC unless otherwise indicated):

Photo:	Member:	About:
	Lisa Matthewson Principal investigator	Lisa is interested in everything about how meaning is expressed in Nɬeʔkepmxcín. Right now she is working on the two different ways that you can ask yes/no questions like ‘Is it raining?’ The two ways are used in slightly different types of contexts, depending on whether the asker thinks the answerer is going to answer ‘yes’.
	Brent Hall MA student	Brent works on syntax and stories in Nɬeʔkepmxcín.
	Ella Hannon PhD student Co-investigator	hén̓ɬeʔ kp! nskʷést Ella. I'm a Ph.D candidate working on the semantics of temporal interpretation (including the question of whether nɬeʔkepmxcín is a tensed or a tenseless language, as well as the semantics of aspectual auxiliaries and clitics), and on the temporal semantics of clausal co-ordination. I examine how times are tracked in nɬeʔkepmxcín stories and conversation (both of which feature a lot of co-ordination!).
	Zara (Gazelle) Khalaji Pirbaluti MA graduate	Gazelle is interested in describing and documenting aspects related to sounds and sound patterns. She hopes to contribute to creating descriptions and pronunciation guides for learners.
	Mila Loginova MA student	Mila is an MA student interested in Indigenous language documentation and preservation. She’s hoping to do fieldwork focusing on syntax and semantics.
	Noah Luntzlara PhD student	Noah is a PhD student studying phonetics. He is originally from Michigan. He is interested in understanding the glottal sound patterns in Nɬeʔkepmxcín, especially associated with diminutive reduplication, i.e., words for "little" things which involve internal copying.
	Sander Nederveen PhD student	Sander works on documentation and analysis of the grammatical structure and meaning of aspectual marking of verbs -- i.e., marking that indicates the time span of a verb.
	Danica Reid PhD student Co-investigator Simon Fraser University (SFU)	Danica is a PhD student at Simon Fraser University. She is interested in all aspects of the sound system of nɬeʔkepmxcín from the ways individual sounds are produced to the ways they pattern together. Her work currently focuses on the system of aspiration, the patterning of ejectives and glottalized resonants, and the structure of the syllable in nɬeʔkepmxcín. She is also interested in the recording methods we use in nɬab and how Zoom audio recordings differ from recordings we collect in-person.
	Cayla Smith MSc student University of Alberta	Cayla is interested in evidentials, or words which describe a speaker's source of evidence for a statement.
	Anna Stacey MA graduate	Anna primarily works on developing technology to support language documentation, but also works with speakers directly on recording conversations/stories.
	Reed Steiner PhD student	Reed is currently working on demonstratives, locatives, lexical suffixes, and word order.

Past lab members: Katie Givens (BA graduate)