New publications
Hot out of the press! Two new publications by Prof. Chris Hammerly! Check below for more. Citation: Hammerly, C. (2023) A set-based semantics for person, obviation, and animacy. Language, 99(1), 38-80. Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/24/article/884309 Blurb: This paper provides an analysis that ties together three closely linked systems in Ojibwe: person (which distinguishes types of conversational participants), obviation (which makes […]
New publication: Vowel space reduction in Alzheimer’s Disease
Curious about how neurodegenerative diseases affect vowel space? Check out the newest publication from the ISRL lab. ABSTRACT: Reduced vowel space area (VSA) is a known effect of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Using large publicly available corpuses, two experiments were conducted comparing the vowel space of speakers with and without Alzheimer’s disease […]
New paper out
Here’s a new publication to start your new year! Why Plain Futurates are Different by Hotze Rullmann, Marianne Huijsmans, Lisa Matthewson, and Neda Todorović Linguistic Inquiry (2022) 54 (1): 197–208. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00435 Here’s the direct link: https://direct.mit.edu/ling/article-abstract/54/1/197/102504/Why-Plain-Futurates-are-Different?redirectedFrom=fulltext
New publication by Profs. Joash Gambarage and Lisa Matthewson
Check out our newest publication by Joash Gambarage and Lisa Matthewson. Gambarage, Joash & Matthewson, Lisa, (2022) “The Bantu-Salish connection in determiner semantics”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.7685
New issue of Semantic Fieldwork Methods published
A new issue (Vol. 4, Issue 2) of Semantic Fieldwork Methods, a journal by Lisa Matthewson and Burton Strang has been published. Semantic Fieldwork Methods, Vol. 4 Issue 2 Second half of a special issue on ‘Collecting semantic data: A sample of individual practices’ Check here for more: https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/storyboards/issue/current
New publication
Another exciting paper: Matthewson, Lisa, Neda Todorovic and Michael Schwan 2022. Future time reference and viewpoint aspect: Evidence from Gitksan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.6341 Congratulations to the research team! https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/6341/
“Nobody’s Perfect”: New paper out
New paper out by Bertrand, Aonuki, Chen, Davis, Gambarage, Griffin, Huijsmans, Matthewson, Reisinger, Rullmann, Salles, Schwan, Todorovic, Trotter & Vander Klok (2022). Nobody’s Perfect. Languages 2022, 7, 148. Impressive teamwork! Congratulations! https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020148 https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/2/148/pdf
Prof. Abdul-Mageed is the new Canada Research Chair
We are happy to share that our very own Prof. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (Computational Linguistics and Information Science) is the new Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. To learn more on this: https://research.ubc.ca/fifteen-ubc-researchers-announced-new-and-renewed-ubc-canada-research-chairs https://www.canada.ca/en/research-chairs/news/2022/06/government-of-canada-announces-119-new-and-renewed-canada-research-chairs.html
Marianne Huijsmans receives the Community-University Engagement Support fund
Congratulations to Linguistics PhD student Marianne Huijsmans, who is one of six Faculty of Arts recipients of the Community-University Engagement Support fund, for a community project on “Reviewing, enriching, and sharing an ʔayʔaǰuθəm e-dictionary.” The community partner is Jacqueline Mathieu, of the Klahoose First Nation. The funding is paid directly to community partners, and is […]
Oksana and Muhammad’s research featured in Pithy Papers
Language Sciences has organized Pithy Papers, a series of brief descriptions of UBC Language Sciences recent research. The inaugural installment features work by Oksana Tkachman on conventionalization in sign languages and by Muhammad Abdul-Mageed on ‘micro-dialects’.