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I'm a linguistics student taking a year off between my undergrad and graduate school. My main interests are Language Change and Variation, which extends out to include Sociolinguistics and Dialectology. I'm also interested in Documentation, which includes Language Death, Typology, and Morphology. I lived in western Brazil for two years and got acquainted with Guarani, which I am now trying to learn. I also spent two months in Amazonian Ecuador studying Tena Lowland Quichua, which led to my name on a publication currently in review.

I minored in Linguistic Computing, and worked with files in preparing them for a type of e-book, using Perl in my most recent job. I've also created program in C# that models Bart de Boer's in The Origins of Vowel Systems [1] which simulates the inception of vowel inventories through self-organization. I've taken his model and added sociolinguistics to it, namely prestige, to simulate realistic language change in a virtual population of agents. Other computer programs I've written include a Kichwa search engine that allows searches by manner of articulation and syllable structure and a Guarani bilingual corpus search engine that uses statistics to guess the translation of words.

To see more about my hobbies besides linguistics, see my Hobbies page.

My current project involves working on pages related to valency and transitivity.

To do edit

  • Define somewhere the difference between an active and an inactive intransitive.
  • Lehmann's article on Latin Causatives
  • Formal definition of a causative p. 3
  • Read Describing Morphosyntax
  • Read Applicative Constructions.
  • Add Ainu and San Lucas Quiavini Zaoptec p.1
  • Additional benefactive. p. 18. Perhaps make a page on "auto-" constructions.
  • Prioritive applicative. p. 20.
  • relinquitive applicative. p. 20-21
  • English "applicatives" aka Dative shift. p. 39
  • Applicativs terminology. p. 39.
  • Read Dixon (1994) Ergativity.
  • 122-124 has information on extended intransitives.
  • Thematic relation. Add stuff from pg. 7. Add citations to the page in general.
  • Antipassive voice p. 12–16
  • Ergative verb. p. 19.
  • subject promotion. Discussed on 27–28. Also on pg. 322–35 of Dixon (1991).[2]
  • Manipuri language and semantic-based morphology. pg 29-31.
  • More ambitransitive stuff on pg. 54.

Contributions edit

Most of my contributions are on small and endangered languages. I read a lot of books and when I find something interesting about a language I add it to the Wikipedia page. Several times the pages have been so short that I've created entirely new sections ("Grammar", "Vowels", or "Other Morphemes"). I try to cite the most primary source, if it's not the book I'm reading. The two tables below summarize all my contributions.

Langauges edit

The contributions listed here are usually smaller things that I read from books. The edits are mostly content additions rather than changing the page itself. I haven't done a major change to a language page, but when I do, it'll be under a different category.

Other linguistic topics edit

Contributions listed here are be smaller, isolated contributions similar to the list above. They are things I read in books and small content additions to the page. For other linguistics-related contributions, see the next section.

WikiProjects edit

I am a somewhat active part of several linguistics- and languge-related WikiProjects. By this, I mean the contributions I would normally do happen to be on pages that are parts of these projects. These tables therefore list contributions that are more to do with cleaning up rather than adding content. They include major revisions to pages or parts of pages, and changes that affect several pages all at once. Accompanying each of these are usually several comments on the talk pages or under these projects' talk page.

General contributions edit

Pages added to projects edit

Non-linguistic pages edit

New Pages edit

While I haven't created entirely new pages yet, I have found some ideas that could use them. The following is my list so far, with links to my own subpages that have the beginnings of that topic. I would require myself to do extensive study on the topic before creating them, so I haven't finished one yet. When I get the time, I will.

New Categories and Sidebars edit

I have created some other things that aren't actual pages.

Friends edit

These are other editors that I've come across that seem to be active and have similar interests as me.

Footnotes edit

See this page for info on how I cite.

References edit

This is a list of primary sources that I cited. All the books I've read should be here, if they themselves were used as a primary source. If I cited something that was itself cited in a book, it will be in this list.

  1. ^ de Boer, Bart (2001). The Origins of Vowel Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[book 1]
  2. ^ Dixon, R.M.W. (1991). A new approach to English grammar, on semantic principles. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. ^ a b c Dixon, R.M.W. & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds) (1999). The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[book 18]
  4. ^ a b c d e f Dixon, R.M.W. (1994). Ergativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[book 20]
  5. ^ a b c d Mithun, Marianne (2000). "Valency-changing derivation in Central Alaskan Yup'ik". pp. ___ of Dixon & Aikhenvald (2000).[book 10]
  6. ^ a b c Onishi, Masayuki (2000). "Transitivity and valency-changing derivations in Motuna". pp 115–44 of Dixon & Aikhenvald (2000).[book 10]
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Bhat, D.N.S. (2004). Pronouns. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[book 11]
  8. ^ Mithun, Marianne. 1999a. Special Handicapped-directed speech varieties in the American north-west. p. 275. Cited in Parkvall (2008).[book 2]
  9. ^ Najlis, Elena (1973). Lengua selknam. Buenos Aires: Universidad de Salvador. Cited in an unknown book.[book 3]
  10. ^ a b Guasch, P. Antonio (1956). El Idioma Guarani: Gramática e Antología de Prosa y Verso. Asunción: Casa América.[book 4]
  11. ^ Graham, Charles R. (1969). Guarani Intermediate Course. Provo: Brigham Young University. pp. 108, 198.[book 5]
  12. ^ Blair, Robert, et al. (1968). Guarani Basic Course: Book 1. p. 50.[book 6]
  13. ^ Mithun, Marianne (1999b). The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge University Press. pp. 81, 443. Cited on p. 43 of Deutscher (2005).[book 7]
  14. ^ Ten Raa, E. (1969). "Sanye and Sandawe: A common substratum?" African Language Review. 8. pp. 148–55.[book 3]
  15. ^ Sands, Bonny & Tom Güldemann (2009). "What click languages can and can't tell us about language origins", pp. 213–5 of Botha & Knight (2009).[book 8]
  16. ^ a b c d e f g Payne, Thomas E. (1997). Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[book 9] Cite error: The named reference "Morphosyntax" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  17. ^ Payne, Doris L. (1990). The Pragmatics of Word Order: Typological Dimensions of Verb-Final Languages. Berlin and New York: Mouton. Cited on p. 34 of Payne (1997).[book 9]
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Dixon, R.M.W. (2000). "A Typology of Causatives: Form, Syntax, and Meaning". pp 30–83 of Dixon & Aikhenvald (2000).[book 10]
  19. ^ Shopen, T. & Konaré, M. (1970). "Sonrai Causatives and Passives: Transformational verses Lexical Derivations for Propositional Heads". Studies in African Linguistics. 1. pp. 211–54. Cited on p. 31 of Dixon (2000).[18]
  20. ^ Dixon, R.M.W. 1977. A Grammar of Yidiny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cited on pp. 4–5 of Bhat (2004).[book 11]
  21. ^ Helmbrecht, Johannes (1996). "The Syntax of Personal Agreement in East Caucasian Languages". Sprachtypol. Univ. Frsch. (STUF). 49. pp. 127–48. Cited on p. 26 of Bhat (2004).[book 11]
  22. ^ a b c d Donohue, Mark (2008). "Semantic alignment systems: What's what, and what's not". pp. ____ of Donohue & Wichmann (2008).[book 12]
  23. ^ Durie, Mark (1988). "Preferred argument structure in an active language", Lingua 74. pp. 1–25. Cited on p. ___ of Donohue (2008).[22]
  24. ^ a b c Ayala, Valentín (2000). Gramática Guaraní. Asunción: Centro Editorial Paraguayo S.R.L.[book 13]
  25. ^ Wise, M.R. (1986). "Grammatical characteristics of PreAndine Arawaken languages of Preu." pp. 567–642 of Derbyshire, D. C. & Pullum, G. K., (eds) (1986). Handbook of Amazonian languages, Vol. 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Cited on p. ___ of Dixon (2000).[18]
  26. ^ a b c d e f Dixon, R. M. W. & Alexandra Aikhenvald (1997). "A Typology of Argument-Determined Constructions. pp 71–112 of Bybee, Haiman, & Thompson (1997).[book 14]
  27. ^ a b Kimenyi, Alexandre (1980). A Relational Grammar of Kinyarwanda. University of California Press.[book 15]
  28. ^ Gregores, Emma & Jorge A. Suárez (1967). A Description of Colloquial Guaraní. The Hague: Mouton. p. 126.[book 16]
  29. ^ a b Tagliamonte, Sali A. (2012). Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, observation, interpretation. UK: Wiley-Blackwell.[book 17]
  30. ^ Zimmer, Ben. "Can "[adjective]-ass" occur predicatively?". Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  31. ^ Siewierska, Anna (1984). Passive: A Comparative Linguistic Analysis. London: Croom Helm.[book 19] This source was originally found on p. 73 of Dixon & Aikhenvald (1997).[26]
  32. ^ Dixon, R.M.W. & Aikhenvald, Alexendra Y. (2000). Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity. Cambridge University Press.[book 10]
  33. ^ Bell, Alan (1993). Jemez tones and stress. Colorado Research in Linguistics. 26. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado at Boulder.
  34. ^ Haiman, John (1983). "Iconic and Economic Motivation". Language. 59:4 pp. 781–819. Found this source on p. 182 of Payne (1997).[book 9]
  35. ^ Grieve, Jack (2011). "A regional analysis of contraction rate in written Standard American English". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16 (4): 514–546.

Books edit

This is a list of the actual books I read and got information from.

  1. ^ de Boer, Bart (2001). The Origins of Vowel Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ Parkvall, Mikael (2008). Limits of Language. Wilsonville, Oregon: William, James & Co.
  3. ^ a b Unknown book…
  4. ^ Guasch, P. Antonio (1956). El Idioma Guarnai: Gramática e Antología de Prosa y Verso. Asuncion: Casa América.
  5. ^ Graham, Charles R. (1969). Guarani Intermediate Course. Provo: Brigham Young University.
  6. ^ Blair, Robert, et al. (1968a). Guarani Basic Course: Book 1.
  7. ^ Deutscher, Guy (2005). The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
  8. ^ Botha, Rudolf & Chris Knight, (eds) (2009). The Cradle of Language. Oxford University Press.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i Payne, Thomas E. (1997). Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  10. ^ a b c d Dixon, R.M.W. & Aikhenvald, Alexendra Y. (2000). Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity. Cambridge University Press.
  11. ^ a b c Bhat, D.N.S. (2004) Pronouns. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  12. ^ Donohue, Mark & Søren Wichmann, (eds) (2008). The Typology of Semantic Alignment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  13. ^ Ayala, Valentín (2000). Gramática Guaraní. Asunción: Centro Editorial Paraguayo S.R.L.
  14. ^ Bybee, Joan, John Haiman, & Sandra A. Thompson (eds.)(1997). Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  15. ^ Kimenyi, Alexandre (1980). A Relational Grammar of Kinyarwanda. University of California Press. Found this source on p. 187 of Payne (1997)[book 9]
  16. ^ Gregores, Emma & Jorge A. Suárez (1967). A Description of Colloquial Guaraní. The Hague: Mouton.
  17. ^ Tagliamonte, Sali A. (2012). Variationist Sociolinguistics. UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
  18. ^ Dixon, R.M.W. & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds) (1990). The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  19. ^ Siewierska, Anna (1984). Passive: A Comparative Linguistic Analysis. London: Croom Helm.
  20. ^ Dixon, R.M.W. (1994). Ergativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Notes edit

  • Note that at one point I created the user joeystan and have a few edits there. I have since forgotten the password to that account.
  • I have some custom userboxes.
  • I do have some experimental versions of my userpage in other languages. See the list of languages to find them.
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