If you haven't seen it already, click here for the basic information about my research.
The rest of this page is either links to papers you can download or pointers to where you could obtain them.
| In Print | Online | My Dissertation | Unpublished |
2007. On Ergativity and Accusativity in Proto-Polynesian and Proto—Central Pacific. Oceanic Linguistics 46.1: 128-153.
(Available online here through Project Muse, if your library subscribes)
2003. Insights into the Patterns of Sounds: Stress in Tondano. Journal of Undergraduate Research, University of Rochester 2: 15-19.
(Also available online at http://sa.rochester.edu/jur/issues/index.html#fall2003)
2005. Tongan Noun Incorporation: Argument Inheritance or Lexical Sharing? In The Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, ed. by Stefan Müller, pgs. 7-27. CSLI Publications. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/6/.
2005. Phrasal Noun Incorporation in Tongan. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA), ed. by Jeffrey Heinz and Dimitrios Ntelitheos. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, No. 12, pgs. 19-33. http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl12/wpl12.htm
2004. Pseudo-Noun Incorporation and Argument Structure in Niuean. In The Proceedings of the LFG '04 Conference. ed. by Miriam Butt & Tracy Holloway King, pgs. 1-20. CSLI Publications. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/9/lfg04.html.
My dissertation, Clause Structure and Argument Realization in Tongan, includes work on the following empirical domains within Tongan:
Clausal Constituency and Order
The Subject "Clitics"
Case-Marking, especially with respect to "middle" clauses
Noun Incorporation
The Instrumental Word ‘aki
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in press. A Unified Analysis of Niuean Aki. Select Papers from AFLA XIV volume. pdf
Three very similar conference talks on Wichita Phonotactics