Congratulations to Mike Hamilton, who successfully defended his dissertation, “The syntax of Mi’gmaq: A configurational account” this past Monday. Mike begins a Mellon Postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University this fall. Mike has been an active member of the Mi’gmaq Research Partnership since it began in 2011.
Mike joins the “recently defended” side of the picture board
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This year’s Summer Language Workshop was a huge success, thanks to a great organizing committee, guest speakers, and interactive booths. Nice work everyone!
Organizing Committee: Diamond, Shoshana, Lola, Maddie, and Carol
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Collaborator Pedro Mateo Pedro has begun training Chuj speakers to record and transcribe Chuj narratives in Guatemala. This project is a joint project between McGill and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, supported by a SSHRC Connection Grant.
Chuj project trainees recording a narrative
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I recently returned from a 2-week trip to Chiapas with Lauren Clemens (SUNY Albany), Ryan Bennett (Yale), and Cora Lesure (McGill). Together with Ch’ol-speakers and linguists Nicolás Arcos López (Universidad Intercultural de Tabasco) and Morelia Vázquez Martinez (ITS Macuspana) we ran two experiments in two different towns. One was a perceptual study (by Ryan), and the other was a production experiment designed to test focus-marking strategies. The latter was based on an experiment designed by Sasha Calhoun for Samoan, but with new pictures created by McGill undergraduate Blare Coughlin. The pictures are available for public use, with credit to Blare, and can be downloaded here. Stay tuned for results!
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Last week some of the Montreal-based Mi’gmaq Research Partnership group headed to Listuguj to kick off summer programming and plan next steps for the learn.migmaq.org website and Summer Language Workshop. Stay tuned for more!
Lola Vicaire, Douglas Gordon, Maddie Metallic, Alan Bale, Jessica Coon, Taha Slime, Sigwan Thivierge
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Congratulations to Yuliya Manyakina who just completed her MA thesis on noun incorporation in Mi’gmaq. Her thesis can be downloaded here. Yuliya first began working on Mi’gmaq during the 2011 Field Methods course at McGill, and has been an active member of the Mi’gmaq Research Partnership.
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The Mi’gmaq Research Partnership is proud to announce the Learn Mi’gmaq website: http://www.learn.migmaq.org/. Special thanks to Fulbright Fellow, Carolyn Anderson, and everyone at the Listuguj Education Directorate. Full credits here.
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A farewell lunch for Yuliya Manyakina who is finishing up her MA thesis on noun incorporation in Mi’gmaq. Congratulations Yuliya!
Sigwan, Madeleine, Taha, Janine, Yuliya; Alan, Mike, Jessica
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The Tibetan group –– Lorna, Jessica, Maggie, Hadas, Madeleine, Nadia, Tashi, and Mitcho –– enjoying some end-of-year momos
BA Honours student Louisa Bielig presented her thesis work at two undergraduate conferences in the last month: GLEEFUL in Michigan, and at the Harvard Linguistics Colloquium. Her talk was based on her ongoing work on Chuj and is titled “Resumptive Classifiers in Chuj High Topic Constructions.”
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