Sander Nederveen. 2025. Re-thinking the Agent Control Hypothesis: inanimate subjects without a change of state<\/a>. Journal of Semantics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nLab work has also been shared at linguistics conferences:<\/p>\n
\n- Anna Stacey. 2026. Glossed Data in Northern Interior Salish<\/a>. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), pp. 3490\u20133495.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Lab members were involved in 5 publications in the 2025 proceedings of the ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages)<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n- Henry Davis & Sander Nederveen. Intransitive –t\u00a0<\/em>in Salish<\/a>, pp. 67\u201393.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Brent Hall, Noah Luntzlara, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Danica Reid. The long schwa paper: stressed schwa epenthesis in n\u026ce\u0294kepmxc\u00edn<\/a>, pp. 94\u2013139.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Brent Hall & Bev Phillips. \u026c cute\u0301s us \u026c q\u0259\u026cmi\u0301n \u026c tmi\u0301x\u02b7 (When Old One Created the Earth)<\/a>, pp. 140\u2013185. Audio<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Ella Hannon. Prospective aspect in n\u026ce\u0294kepmxc\u00edn<\/a>, pp. 186\u2013<\/span>206.<\/li>\n
- Reed Steiner. n\u026ce\u0294kepmxc\u00edn somatic suffixes<\/a>, pp. 421\u2013456.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
5 publications from various lab members were included in the 2024 proceedings of the ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages)<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n- Bernice Garcia, Ella Hannon, & Anna Stacey. Three Glossed N\u026ce\u0294kepmxc\u00edn Narratives by K\u02b7\u0259\u026ct\u0259z\u00e9tk\u02b7u<\/a>, pp.\u00a068\u201394.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Brent Hall & Bev Phillips. x\u02b7i\u0301\u0294 k\u02b7 pa\u0301q (You Will Be Sorry)<\/a>, pp.\u00a0128\u2013156. [Audio<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>\n
- Ella Hannon. “Connected Speech in N\u026ce\u0294k\u00e9pmxc\u00edn: Functions of\u00a0\u0294e me\u026c nes<\/em> in Discourse and Storytelling<\/a>, pp.\u00a0157\u2013168.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Sander Nederveen. Bare Roots or a Lack Thereof in Interior Salish<\/a>, pp.\u00a0423\u2013433.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Cayla Smith. A Brief Report on the N\u0142e\u0294kepmxc\u00edn Reportative<\/a>, pp.\u00a0541\u2013549.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
8 publications from various lab members were included in the 2023 proceedings of the ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages)<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n- Katherine Givens. Degree Comparison in N\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n<\/a>, pp.\u00a066\u201377.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Katherine Givens & Brent Hall. The Moon and the Birchbark Canoe (\u026c ma\u0301\u0295xetn pe \u026c q\u02b7\u026cine\u0301w\u026c)<\/a>, pp.\u00a078\u201384. [Audio<\/a>].<\/span><\/li>\n
- Brent Hall. A Brief Look at Infinitives in N\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n<\/a>, pp.\u00a085\u201393.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Ella Hannon & Cayla Smith. A Brief Comparison of Two N\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n Evidentials<\/a>, pp.\u00a094\u2013116.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Ella Hannon, Anna Stacey, & Reed Steiner. Glossed Conversational Data in N\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n<\/a>, pp.\u00a0117\u2013158.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Zara Khalaji Pirbaluti. Vowel Variation in N\u026ce\u0294kepmxc\u00edn: An Acoustic Study of Coarticulation<\/a>, pp.\u00a0199\u2013218.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Lisa Matthewson. Two Types of Polar Question in N\u026ce\u0294kepmxc\u00edn<\/a>, pp.\u00a0291\u2013332.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Danica Reid. An Acoustic Analysis of Aspiration in N\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n<\/a>, pp.\u00a0368\u2013383.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Several lab members have written works about n\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n for one of their “qualifying papers”. \u00a0QPs are research papers that PhD students complete as part of their degree requirements. \u00a0These works are:<\/p>\n
\n- Reed Steiner. 2025. n\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n Somatic Suffixes<\/a>. Qualifying paper: University of British Columbia.<\/li>\n
- Ella Hannon. 2024. A Modal Evidential in n\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n.<\/a>\u00a0Qualifying paper: University of British Columbia.<\/li>\n
- Noah Luntzlara. 2024. n\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n Diminutive Reduplication<\/a>. Qualifying paper: University of British Columbia.<\/li>\n
- Danica Reid. \u00a02024. An Acoustic Analysis of Aspiration in n\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n.<\/a>\u00a0 Qualifying paper: Simon Fraser University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Finally, lab members have also written theses (and soon, dissertations!) involving n\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n. \u00a0These are the biggest projects undertaken to complete MA or PhD studies:<\/p>\n
\n- Cayla Smith. 2025. Getting a Sense of the n\u026ce\u0294kepmxc\u00edn Evidential nuk\u02b7: Sensory evidence, modality, and Maximise Presupposition<\/a>. M.A. thesis: University of Alberta.<\/li>\n
- Anna Stacey. 2025. Automatic glossing for Northern Interior languages featuring cross-lingual enhancements<\/a>. M.A. thesis: University of British Columbia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nProjects<\/h2>\n
Lab members are currently working on many separate and exciting projects in collaboration with community members, including language learning websites and apps, as well as investigations into many different linguistic areas.<\/p>\n
Our lab also works closely with two other lab groups at UBC: Salish Working Group and Secwepemcts\u00edn Working Group.<\/p>\n
A list of the ongoing projects and a short description:<\/p>\n\n
\n\n\n\t| Ongoing Projects (Members)<\/th> | Short Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
\n\n\tConversations:
\n(many members)<\/td> | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tStories:
\n(many members)<\/td> | This project involves recording speakers telling stories (legends, personal memories, etc.) and then putting together a transcription, meaning breakdown, and translation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tPolar Questions:
\n(Lisa Matthewson)<\/td> | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Modals:<\/td> | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tAspiration:
\n(Danica Reid)<\/td> | This project investigates how the stop consonants \/p, t, k, q\/ are pronounced when they are found in different parts of a word.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tVowel Variation:
\n(Gazelle Khalaji Pirbaluti)<\/td> | This project is about variation in pronunciation of vowel-consonant combinations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tInfinitives:
\n(Brent Hall)<\/td> | The purpose of this project is to investigate the syntactic distribution and behavior of infinitives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\t| Degree Adjectives?:<\/td> | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tBuilding Verbs:
\n(Sander Nederveen)<\/td> | This project investigates how verbs extend over time influenced by the marking of the verb with -nw\u00e9n\u0313-, -nw\u00e9\u0142n\u0313, -n- or -t-, and -(\u0259)m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tAutomatic Glossing:
\n(Anna Stacey)<\/td> | This project uses technology to try to automate the \"glossing\" (meaning breakdown) stage of the documentation process, to accelerate our output.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n\tDiminutive Reduplication:
\n(Noah Luntzlara)<\/td> | This project is about the glottal sounds associated with diminutive reduplication, i.e., words for \"little\" things which involve internal copying<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
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