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#KeepOurLanguagesStrong: Indigenous language revitalization on social media during the early COVID-19 pandemic
(2021)
Indigenous communities, organizations, and individuals work tirelessly to #KeepOurLanguagesStrong. The COVID-19 pandemic was potentially detrimental to Indigenous language revitalization (ILR) as this mostly in-person work ...
Chikashsha alhihaat Chikashshanompa' anompoli katihma: Chickasaws are still speaking Chikashshanompa'
(2022)
Holisso mako̲ anompa toklo' ishtiiholissochitok, Chikashshanompa' micha Naahollimanompa'. Hopaakikaash Chikashsha mó̲ma'at i̲yaakni' sipokni' áyya'shattook. 1837aash Naahollo i̲naalhpisa'at pomokloshi' wihat kanallichittook. ...
Non-autonomous accusative case in Estonian
(2018)
In Estonian, some objects of verbs show an alternation in case-marking that seems to be conditioned by morphological number: genitive when singular, nominative when plural. According to traditional descriptions (Erelt et ...
Chikashshanompaat bílli'ya: The Chickasaw language is forever
(2022)
Drawing on research with Chickasaw citizens committed to Chikashshanompa’ (Chickasaw language) reclamation work, this chapter focuses on how Chikashshanompa’ learners and teachers engage in nation-building as they work to ...
The morphosyntax of number in Estonian numeral-noun constructions
(2018-03)
The interaction of numerals and number-marking has generated much research in both morphosyntax and semantics in those domains. In this paper, I propose an analysis of number-marking in the numeral-noun constructions of ...
Unifying subject agreement across clause types in Estonian
(2016)
Estonian negated indicative clauses show no agreement, whereas Estonian negated imperative clauses show agreement twice: once on the main verb and once on the negation word ära. This contrasts with affirmative clauses, ...
A typological perspective on nominal concord
(2019)
This paper reports some of the results of the largest typological study of nominal concord to date. The sample contains 174 languages from 105 distinct families. Concord is found in 59.2% of languages in the sample. I ...
Growing the fire within: Exploring innovative and successful adult language learning methods in Indigenous communities in Canada and the US
(2021)
This report summarizes the outcomes of a five-day gathering called “Exploring Innovative and Successful Adult Language Learning Methods in Canadian & US Indigenous Communities” at the First Peoples House at the University ...