Papers and handouts available to download (PDF):
Processing Evidence for the Scales of Negative Evaluative Adjectives (2011). DRAFT of First Generals Paper, UMass Amherst. Comments welcome. Extension of ‘Ugly, Rude, and Unenthusiastic’ handout (see below): elaborates on mode of coercion proposed for diminishers (slightly, a little).
Positively Uninformative. (2011). To appear in the Proceedings of the MIT Workshop on Comparatives.
Decomposing Adjectival Meaning in Navajo‘. (2010). Under revision.
‘Distribution and Function of Comparative Aspect in Athabaskan/Dene‘. (2010). In Proceedings of the 2009 Athabaskan Languages Conference. Justin Spence and Siri Tuttle, eds. Fairbanks, AK: ANLC.
‘Gradability and Degree Constructions in Navajo‘ (2008). Swarthmore College, unpublished BA thesis.
Handouts available to download (PDF):
Generation of alternatives in Navajo: The case of daats’í. (2012). Handout from SULA 7 (7th Meeting on the Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas). Cornell University, May 4.
Slightly coerced: Processing evidence for adjectival coercion by minimizers. (2012). Handout from 48th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. April 21.
Modality and Modal Questions: Expressing Possibility in Navajo (2012). Poster presented at Winter 2012 Meeting of Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Portland, OR.
- Handout form of poster (same content)
Ugly, Rude, and Unenthusiastic: Diagnosing the Scale Structure of Negative Evaluative Adjectives‘ (May 5, 2011). Presented at UMass Amherst Linguistics Second Year Conference.
‘Splitting POS: Evidence from Navajo for Two POS Morphemes‘ (2010). Presented at MIT Workshop on Comparatives. Also presented February 12, 2011 at WSCLA 16 (16th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas), UMass Amherst.
‘Distribution and Function of Comparative Aspect in Athabaskan/Dene‘ (2009). Presented at 2009 Meeting of the Athabaskan Languages Conference, UC-Berkeley.
‘Navajo Degree Constructions and the Decompositional Analysis of Gradable Predicates‘ (2009). Presented at 2009 meeting of the LSA, San Francisco.
‘The Morphosyntax of Navajo Comparatives and the Degree Argument‘ (2009). Presented at 2009 meeting of SSILA, San Francisco.