sarah e. murray

Dynamics of Reflexivity and Reciprocity (.pdf)

Presented at the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium at the ILLC in Amsterdam. This handout is complementary to the handout from SuB12. It additionally discusses how to capture the collective, cumulative, and distributive readings of verbs in Dynamic Plural Logic (van den Berg 1996). Reflexive and reciprocals in English are only compatible with certain readings of verbs, a fact captured by the proposed analysis. In addition, a more detailed introduction to Dynamic Plural Logic is given. See also the write-up for the proceedings on my papers page.

Reflexivity and Reciprocity with(out) Underspecification (.pdf)

Presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 12 in Oslo, Norway. This handout focuses on the construals of the Cheyenne reflexive/reciprocal affix as well as the `mixed elaboration puzzle' -- a Cheyenne discourse involving the reflexive/reciprocal affix which is difficult to translate into English. This discourse shows this Cheyenne affix is underspecified, not ambiguous.

I give an introduction to a fragment of Dynamic Plural Logic (van den Berg 1996) as well as some basic illustrations which show how plurality works in this system. This system provides the structure to give a parallel analysis to reflexives and reciprocals in English. I make this analysis explicit, and then extend it to Cheyenne by appealing to underspecification. See also the write-up for the proceedings on my papers page

Selective [voice] Faithfulness and Voicing Assimilation (.pdf)

This work was presented at HUMDRUM, held at Johns Hopkins University on the 29th and 30th of April 2006. This is an extension of 2006b, with some non-trivial revisions.

Selective Faithfulness and Voicing Assimilation (.pdf)

This work was presented at the first annual RULing conference, held at Rutgers University on the 21st and 22nd of April 2006. It investigates the consequences of restricting faithfulness to a (proper) subset of each syllable constituent.

Reportative Evidentials (.pdf draft)

This work was presented on 24th April 2006 in Maria Bittner's semantics seminar "(in)direct discourse". This represents my ongoing research into the semantics of reportative evidentials, and contains crosslinguistic generalizations, data from Quechua and Kalaallisut, and discussion of the analysis of evidentials put forth in Faller 2002 and Faller 2006. Some attention is also given to the Quechua conjectural evidential.