Michael David Schwan

PhD Candidate
Education

MA Linguistics, University of Toronto, 2014
BA (Hons) Linguistics w/ Minor in Asian Studies (Mandarin), University of British Columbia, 2013


About

Hi!

  • PhD Candidate
  • Very from Vancouver (Ladner, actually)
  • Languages I’ve worked on/learned more than a bit: English (maybe), Gitksan, German, Mandarin

Research

My area of research is on various facets of the Gitksan language. I am currently focusing on neologism (new word) formation as it relates to reduplication, transitivity, and preverbal/prenominal morphology. I am currently also involved in projects concerning tense and aspect as well as SSHRC-funded projects to create e-Dictionaries and e-Grammars.

More broadly, I have an interest in language documentation and revitalization efforts as well as community engagement and knowledge dissemination.


Publications

Matthewson, Lisa, Neda Todorovic, & Michael David Schwan. (2022) Future time reference and viewpoint aspect: Evidence from Gitksan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1), pp 1-37. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.6341

Bertrand, Anne, Yurika Aonuki, Sihwei Chen, Henry Davis, Joash Gambarage, Laura Griffin, Marianne Huijsmans, Lisa Matthewson, Daniel Reisinger, Hotze Rullmann, Raiane Salles, Michael David Schwan, Neda Todorović, Bailey Trotter, and Jozina Vander Klok. (2022). Nobody’s Perfect. Languages 7, no. 2: 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020148

Brown, Colin, Clarisa Forbes, & Michael David Schwan. (2020). Clause-type, transitivity, and the transitive vowel in Tsimshianic. In Papers for the 55th International Conference of Salish and Neighbouring Languages. Pp 12-44. UBCWPL.

Hall, Kathleen Currie, Aidan Pine, & Michael Schwan. (2018). Doing phonological corpus analysis in a fieldwork context. In Lisa Matthewson, Erin Guntly and Michael Rochemont (Eds.) Wa7 xweysás i nqwal’utteníha i ucwalmícwa: He loves the people’s languages. Essays in honour of Henry Davis (pp. 615-630). Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics Vol. 6.

Forbes, Clarissa, Henry Davis, Michael Schwan, & the UBC Gitksan Research Laboratory. (2017). Three Gitksan texts. In Andrei Anghelescu, Michael Fry, Marianne Huijsmans, and Daniel Reisinger (Eds.) Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 52, University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 45. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

Brown, Jason, Henry Davis, Michael Schwan, & Barbara Sennott. (2016). Gitksan. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. doi:10.1017/S0025100315000432

Keough, Megan, Avery Ozburn, Elise Kedersha McClay, Michael David Schwan, Murray Schellenberg, Samuel Akinbo, & Bryan Gick. (2015). Acoustic and articulatory qualities of smiled speech. Canadian Acoustics, 43(3).

Akinbo, Samuel, Thomas J. Heins, Megan Keough, Elise Kedersha McClay, Avery Ozburn, Michael David Schwan, Murray Schellenberg, Jonathan de Vries, & Bryan Gick. (2015). Smiled speech in a context-invariant model of coarticulation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(4), 2304-2304

Schwan, Michael David. (2013, June). Acoustic characteristics of glottalized obstruents in Gitksan. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (Vol. 19, No. 1, p. 060292). Acoustical Society of America

Presentations and Posters

Todorović, Neda, Michael Schwan, and Lisa Matthewson. (2020, August). Compositionally deriving the future in Gitksan. Presentation at SULA 11, El Colegio de México and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Matthewson, Lisa, Michael Schwan, and Neda Todorović. (2019, August). Building aspectual futures: Evidence from Gitksan  deriving the future in Gitksan. Presentation at Societas Linguistica Europaea, 52nd Annual Meeting, Leipzig University.

Schwan, Michael David. (2017, August). Three Gitksan texts. Presentation at the 52nd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

Schwan, Michael David. (2017, May). Asymmetrical Reduplicant Lenition. Poster presented at 22nd Workshop on the Constituency and Structure of Languages of the Americas, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Bicevskis, Katie, and Michael David Schwan. (2015, August 5). Tests for lexical aspectual classes in Gitksan. Presentation at the 50th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Schwan, Michael David. (2013, June 7). Acoustic characteristics of glottalized obstruents in Gitksan. Poster presented at the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, Montreal, QC.

Anghelescu, Andrei, and Michael Schwan. (2013, June 2). Nuclear consonants in Gitksan. Poster presented at Canadian Linguistic Association Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

Schwan, Michael. (2013, March 23). An acoustic description of glottalized obstruents in Gitksan. Poster presented at Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference 2013, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.


Awards

       (and Grants)

  • 2020 – UBC Public Scholars Award
  • 2020 – Jacobs Research Fund Grant
  • 2015 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship 
  • 2014 – UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
  • 2013 – SSHRC Institutional Grant Award 
  • 2013 – University of Toronto Fellowship
  • 2013 – UBC Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference Award – Poster Presentation
  • 2012 – UBC Arts Undergraduate Research Award

Michael David Schwan

PhD Candidate
Education

MA Linguistics, University of Toronto, 2014
BA (Hons) Linguistics w/ Minor in Asian Studies (Mandarin), University of British Columbia, 2013


About

Hi!

  • PhD Candidate
  • Very from Vancouver (Ladner, actually)
  • Languages I’ve worked on/learned more than a bit: English (maybe), Gitksan, German, Mandarin

Research

My area of research is on various facets of the Gitksan language. I am currently focusing on neologism (new word) formation as it relates to reduplication, transitivity, and preverbal/prenominal morphology. I am currently also involved in projects concerning tense and aspect as well as SSHRC-funded projects to create e-Dictionaries and e-Grammars.

More broadly, I have an interest in language documentation and revitalization efforts as well as community engagement and knowledge dissemination.


Publications

Matthewson, Lisa, Neda Todorovic, & Michael David Schwan. (2022) Future time reference and viewpoint aspect: Evidence from Gitksan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1), pp 1-37. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.6341

Bertrand, Anne, Yurika Aonuki, Sihwei Chen, Henry Davis, Joash Gambarage, Laura Griffin, Marianne Huijsmans, Lisa Matthewson, Daniel Reisinger, Hotze Rullmann, Raiane Salles, Michael David Schwan, Neda Todorović, Bailey Trotter, and Jozina Vander Klok. (2022). Nobody’s Perfect. Languages 7, no. 2: 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020148

Brown, Colin, Clarisa Forbes, & Michael David Schwan. (2020). Clause-type, transitivity, and the transitive vowel in Tsimshianic. In Papers for the 55th International Conference of Salish and Neighbouring Languages. Pp 12-44. UBCWPL.

Hall, Kathleen Currie, Aidan Pine, & Michael Schwan. (2018). Doing phonological corpus analysis in a fieldwork context. In Lisa Matthewson, Erin Guntly and Michael Rochemont (Eds.) Wa7 xweysás i nqwal’utteníha i ucwalmícwa: He loves the people’s languages. Essays in honour of Henry Davis (pp. 615-630). Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics Vol. 6.

Forbes, Clarissa, Henry Davis, Michael Schwan, & the UBC Gitksan Research Laboratory. (2017). Three Gitksan texts. In Andrei Anghelescu, Michael Fry, Marianne Huijsmans, and Daniel Reisinger (Eds.) Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 52, University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 45. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

Brown, Jason, Henry Davis, Michael Schwan, & Barbara Sennott. (2016). Gitksan. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. doi:10.1017/S0025100315000432

Keough, Megan, Avery Ozburn, Elise Kedersha McClay, Michael David Schwan, Murray Schellenberg, Samuel Akinbo, & Bryan Gick. (2015). Acoustic and articulatory qualities of smiled speech. Canadian Acoustics, 43(3).

Akinbo, Samuel, Thomas J. Heins, Megan Keough, Elise Kedersha McClay, Avery Ozburn, Michael David Schwan, Murray Schellenberg, Jonathan de Vries, & Bryan Gick. (2015). Smiled speech in a context-invariant model of coarticulation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(4), 2304-2304

Schwan, Michael David. (2013, June). Acoustic characteristics of glottalized obstruents in Gitksan. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (Vol. 19, No. 1, p. 060292). Acoustical Society of America

Presentations and Posters

Todorović, Neda, Michael Schwan, and Lisa Matthewson. (2020, August). Compositionally deriving the future in Gitksan. Presentation at SULA 11, El Colegio de México and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Matthewson, Lisa, Michael Schwan, and Neda Todorović. (2019, August). Building aspectual futures: Evidence from Gitksan  deriving the future in Gitksan. Presentation at Societas Linguistica Europaea, 52nd Annual Meeting, Leipzig University.

Schwan, Michael David. (2017, August). Three Gitksan texts. Presentation at the 52nd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

Schwan, Michael David. (2017, May). Asymmetrical Reduplicant Lenition. Poster presented at 22nd Workshop on the Constituency and Structure of Languages of the Americas, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Bicevskis, Katie, and Michael David Schwan. (2015, August 5). Tests for lexical aspectual classes in Gitksan. Presentation at the 50th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Schwan, Michael David. (2013, June 7). Acoustic characteristics of glottalized obstruents in Gitksan. Poster presented at the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, Montreal, QC.

Anghelescu, Andrei, and Michael Schwan. (2013, June 2). Nuclear consonants in Gitksan. Poster presented at Canadian Linguistic Association Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

Schwan, Michael. (2013, March 23). An acoustic description of glottalized obstruents in Gitksan. Poster presented at Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference 2013, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.


Awards

       (and Grants)

  • 2020 – UBC Public Scholars Award
  • 2020 – Jacobs Research Fund Grant
  • 2015 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship 
  • 2014 – UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
  • 2013 – SSHRC Institutional Grant Award 
  • 2013 – University of Toronto Fellowship
  • 2013 – UBC Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference Award – Poster Presentation
  • 2012 – UBC Arts Undergraduate Research Award

Michael David Schwan

PhD Candidate
Education

MA Linguistics, University of Toronto, 2014
BA (Hons) Linguistics w/ Minor in Asian Studies (Mandarin), University of British Columbia, 2013

About keyboard_arrow_down

Hi!

  • PhD Candidate
  • Very from Vancouver (Ladner, actually)
  • Languages I’ve worked on/learned more than a bit: English (maybe), Gitksan, German, Mandarin
Research keyboard_arrow_down

My area of research is on various facets of the Gitksan language. I am currently focusing on neologism (new word) formation as it relates to reduplication, transitivity, and preverbal/prenominal morphology. I am currently also involved in projects concerning tense and aspect as well as SSHRC-funded projects to create e-Dictionaries and e-Grammars.

More broadly, I have an interest in language documentation and revitalization efforts as well as community engagement and knowledge dissemination.

Publications keyboard_arrow_down

Matthewson, Lisa, Neda Todorovic, & Michael David Schwan. (2022) Future time reference and viewpoint aspect: Evidence from Gitksan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1), pp 1-37. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.6341

Bertrand, Anne, Yurika Aonuki, Sihwei Chen, Henry Davis, Joash Gambarage, Laura Griffin, Marianne Huijsmans, Lisa Matthewson, Daniel Reisinger, Hotze Rullmann, Raiane Salles, Michael David Schwan, Neda Todorović, Bailey Trotter, and Jozina Vander Klok. (2022). Nobody’s Perfect. Languages 7, no. 2: 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020148

Brown, Colin, Clarisa Forbes, & Michael David Schwan. (2020). Clause-type, transitivity, and the transitive vowel in Tsimshianic. In Papers for the 55th International Conference of Salish and Neighbouring Languages. Pp 12-44. UBCWPL.

Hall, Kathleen Currie, Aidan Pine, & Michael Schwan. (2018). Doing phonological corpus analysis in a fieldwork context. In Lisa Matthewson, Erin Guntly and Michael Rochemont (Eds.) Wa7 xweysás i nqwal’utteníha i ucwalmícwa: He loves the people’s languages. Essays in honour of Henry Davis (pp. 615-630). Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics Vol. 6.

Forbes, Clarissa, Henry Davis, Michael Schwan, & the UBC Gitksan Research Laboratory. (2017). Three Gitksan texts. In Andrei Anghelescu, Michael Fry, Marianne Huijsmans, and Daniel Reisinger (Eds.) Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 52, University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 45. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

Brown, Jason, Henry Davis, Michael Schwan, & Barbara Sennott. (2016). Gitksan. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. doi:10.1017/S0025100315000432

Keough, Megan, Avery Ozburn, Elise Kedersha McClay, Michael David Schwan, Murray Schellenberg, Samuel Akinbo, & Bryan Gick. (2015). Acoustic and articulatory qualities of smiled speech. Canadian Acoustics, 43(3).

Akinbo, Samuel, Thomas J. Heins, Megan Keough, Elise Kedersha McClay, Avery Ozburn, Michael David Schwan, Murray Schellenberg, Jonathan de Vries, & Bryan Gick. (2015). Smiled speech in a context-invariant model of coarticulation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(4), 2304-2304

Schwan, Michael David. (2013, June). Acoustic characteristics of glottalized obstruents in Gitksan. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (Vol. 19, No. 1, p. 060292). Acoustical Society of America

Presentations and Posters

Todorović, Neda, Michael Schwan, and Lisa Matthewson. (2020, August). Compositionally deriving the future in Gitksan. Presentation at SULA 11, El Colegio de México and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Matthewson, Lisa, Michael Schwan, and Neda Todorović. (2019, August). Building aspectual futures: Evidence from Gitksan  deriving the future in Gitksan. Presentation at Societas Linguistica Europaea, 52nd Annual Meeting, Leipzig University.

Schwan, Michael David. (2017, August). Three Gitksan texts. Presentation at the 52nd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

Schwan, Michael David. (2017, May). Asymmetrical Reduplicant Lenition. Poster presented at 22nd Workshop on the Constituency and Structure of Languages of the Americas, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Bicevskis, Katie, and Michael David Schwan. (2015, August 5). Tests for lexical aspectual classes in Gitksan. Presentation at the 50th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Schwan, Michael David. (2013, June 7). Acoustic characteristics of glottalized obstruents in Gitksan. Poster presented at the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, Montreal, QC.

Anghelescu, Andrei, and Michael Schwan. (2013, June 2). Nuclear consonants in Gitksan. Poster presented at Canadian Linguistic Association Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

Schwan, Michael. (2013, March 23). An acoustic description of glottalized obstruents in Gitksan. Poster presented at Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference 2013, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Awards keyboard_arrow_down

       (and Grants)

  • 2020 – UBC Public Scholars Award
  • 2020 – Jacobs Research Fund Grant
  • 2015 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship 
  • 2014 – UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
  • 2013 – SSHRC Institutional Grant Award 
  • 2013 – University of Toronto Fellowship
  • 2013 – UBC Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference Award – Poster Presentation
  • 2012 – UBC Arts Undergraduate Research Award