Publications

Journals

Lab work has been published in linguistics journals:

• Lisa Matthewson. 2025. Polar questions in nɬeʔkepmxcín: monopolar, bipolar, and exhaustive. Natural Language Semantics.
• Sander Nederveen. 2025. Re-thinking the Agent Control Hypothesis: inanimate subjects without a change of state. Journal of Semantics.

Books

Some lab members have contributed to printed volumes:

• wlwlmélst Maurice Michell. 2026.  Book of Prayers.  Kanaka Bar Band.  Transcribed by Jonathan Janzen, edited by Brent Hall, Ella Hannon, and Emily Hanser.

Conferences

Lab work has also been shared at various linguistics conferences:

• Ella Hannon. 2026. Pastness as a presupposition: the nɬeʔkepmxcín clitic ƛ̓əm̓.  SULA-TripleA.
• Sander Nederveen. 2026. Gradable change of state and variable culmination in Salish.  SULA-TripleA.
• Anna Stacey. 2026. Glossed Data in Northern Interior Salish. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), pp. 3490–3495.
• Reed Steiner. 2026.  Locative demonstratives in nɬeʔkepmxcín: a vector space semantics.  SULA-TripleA.

ICSNL

Lab work gets published in the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages yearly.

Lab members wrote 5 papers featured in the 2026 proceedings of the ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages):

• c̓úʔsinek Marty Aspinall, Brent Hall, Ella Hannon, and Reed Steiner. ʔe kʷénc us e tmíxʷ when the land takes you by c̓úʔsinek Marty Aspinall, pp.52–74.  Audio available here.
• Brent Hall, Noah Luntzlara, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Danica Reid. Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Control Directive and Associated /t/ Deletion in nɬeʔkepmxcín, pp.140–163.
• Bev Phillips, Brent Hall, Lisa Matthewson, Danica Reid. e sqwincút kt (Our Speech), pp.310–330. Audio available here.
• Reed Steiner. Locative demonstratives in nɬeʔkepmxcín, pp.424–480.
• Reed Steiner and Lisa Matthewson. That moon has risen: The semantics of nɬeʔkepmxcín nominal demonstratives, pp.481–532.

Lab members were involved in 5 publications in the 2025 proceedings of the ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages):

• Henry Davis & Sander Nederveen. Intransitive –t in Salish, pp. 67–93.
• Brent Hall, Noah Luntzlara, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Danica Reid. The long schwa paper: stressed schwa epenthesis in nɬeʔkepmxcín, pp. 94–139.
• Brent Hall & Bev Phillips. ɬ cutés us ɬ qəɬmín ɬ tmíxʷ (When Old One Created the Earth), pp. 140–185. Audio.
• Ella Hannon. Prospective aspect in nɬeʔkepmxcín, pp. 186–206.
• Reed Steiner. nɬeʔkepmxcín somatic suffixes, pp. 421–456.

5 publications from various lab members were included in the 2024 proceedings of the ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages):

• Bernice Garcia, Ella Hannon, & Anna Stacey. Three Glossed Nɬeʔkepmxcín Narratives by Kʷəɬtəzétkʷu, pp. 68–94.
• Brent Hall & Bev Phillips. xʷíʔ kʷ páq (You Will Be Sorry), pp. 128–156. [Audio]
• Ella Hannon. “Connected Speech in Nɬeʔképmxcín: Functions of ʔe meɬ nes in Discourse and Storytelling, pp. 157–168.
• Sander Nederveen. Bare Roots or a Lack Thereof in Interior Salish, pp. 423–433.
• Cayla Smith. A Brief Report on the Nłeʔkepmxcín Reportative, pp. 541–549.

8 publications from various lab members were included in the 2023 proceedings of the ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages):

• Katherine Givens. Degree Comparison in Nɬeʔkepmxcín, pp. 66–77.
• Katherine Givens & Brent Hall. The Moon and the Birchbark Canoe (ɬ máʕxetn pe ɬ qʷɬinéwɬ), pp. 78–84. [Audio].
• Brent Hall. A Brief Look at Infinitives in Nɬeʔkepmxcín, pp. 85–93.
• Ella Hannon & Cayla Smith. A Brief Comparison of Two Nɬeʔkepmxcín Evidentials, pp. 94–116.
• Ella Hannon, Anna Stacey, & Reed Steiner. Glossed Conversational Data in Nɬeʔkepmxcín, pp. 117–158.
• Zara Khalaji Pirbaluti. Vowel Variation in Nɬeʔkepmxcín: An Acoustic Study of Coarticulation, pp. 199–218.
• Lisa Matthewson. Two Types of Polar Question in Nɬeʔkepmxcín, pp. 291–332.
• Danica Reid. An Acoustic Analysis of Aspiration in Nɬeʔkepmxcín, pp. 368–383.

Qualifying papers

Several lab members have written works about nɬeʔkepmxcín for one of their “qualifying papers”.  QPs are research papers that PhD students complete as part of their degree requirements. These works are:

• Reed Steiner. 2025. nɬeʔkepmxcín Somatic Suffixes. Qualifying paper: University of British Columbia.
• Ella Hannon. 2024. A Modal Evidential in nɬeʔkepmxcín. Qualifying paper: University of British Columbia.
• Noah Luntzlara. 2024. nɬeʔkepmxcín Diminutive Reduplication. Qualifying paper: University of British Columbia.
• Danica Reid. 2024. An Acoustic Analysis of Aspiration in nɬeʔkepmxcín.  Qualifying paper: Simon Fraser University.

Theses/Dissertations

Finally, lab members have also written theses (and soon, dissertations!) involving nɬeʔkepmxcín. These are the biggest projects undertaken to complete MA or PhD studies:

• Cayla Smith. 2025. Getting a Sense of the nɬeʔkepmxcín Evidential nukʷ: Sensory evidence, modality, and Maximise Presupposition. M.A. thesis: University of Alberta.
• Anna Stacey. 2025. Automatic glossing for Northern Interior languages featuring cross-lingual enhancements. M.A. thesis: University of British Columbia.