current research
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evidentiality and questions in cheyenne
The interaction of evidentiality and questions in Cheyenne is, to my knowledge, typologically unique, and bears on the issue of the `multi-dimensionality' of evidentials. I'm currently in the process of writing up the data, most of which comes from my own fieldwork, and developing a theory which accounts both evidentials in isolation and in discourse, as well as their interaction with questions. Please email me if you are interested in a draft of this work.
reportative evidentials
This project is a formal semantic investigation into the cross-linguistic properties of reportative evidentials. The languages studied are Quechua, Kalaallisut, and Cheyenne. I am formulating cross-linguistic generalizations, studying current formal analyses, and developing an account of my own. A draft of this work, Remarks on Reportative Evidentials, is available on my papers page.
reflexive/reciprocal underspecification
In this project, I analyze reflexives and reciprocals in English and Cheyenne as dependent pronouns. In Cheyenne, reflexivity and reciprocity are expressed by a single verbal affix, one which I argue is underspecified, not ambiguous. The English anaphors share the requirement of the Cheyenne reflexive/reciprocal affix, but have further specifications. The analysis is phrased in a fragment of van den Berg's 1996 Dynamic Plural Logic.
Materials on these and other topics can be found on my handouts page or my papers page.
