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Ph.D. 1996, University of British Columbia
Title of dissertation:Determiner Systems and Quantificational Strategies: Evidence from SalishCo-winner of the Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Language, Logic and Computation, European Association for Logic, Language and Information / FoLLI, 1998
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Spring 2007: Ling 432/532, Linguistic Field Methods II - St'at'imcets
Fall 2006: Ling 431/531, Linguistic Field Methods I - St'at'imcets
Spring 2006: Ling 502, Formal Foundations in Syntax and Semantics (co-taught with Henry Davis)
Spring 2006: Ling 530, Seminar on Aspect and Number (co-taught with Hotze Rullmann)
Fall 2005: Ling 436, Community-Based Language Research
Fall 2005: Ling 447, Time and Modality (co-taught with Hotze Rullmann)
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von Fintel, Kai and Lisa Matthewson. In press.
Universals in Semantics.To appear in a special issue of The Linguistic Review. Matthewson, Lisa, Hotze Rullmann and Henry Davis. In press.
Evidentials as Epistemic Modals: Evidence from St'at'imcets.To appear in The Linguistic Variation Yearbook 7. Davis, Henry, Lisa Matthewson and Hotze Rullmann. Under revision.
A Unified Modal Semantics for Out-of-control in St'at'imcets.To appear in the Proceedings of the TAMTAM conference, ed. Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop and Andrey Malchukov. Rullmann, Hotze, Lisa Matthewson and Henry Davis. Under revision.
Modals as Distributive Indefinites. To appear in Natural Language Semantics. Matthewson, Lisa (to appear, under revision)
An Unfamiliar Proportional Quantifier. Volume edited by Anastasia Giannakidou and Monika Rathert. Johannsdottir, Kristin and Lisa Matthewson (in press)
Zero-marked Tense: The Case of Gitxsan. Proceedings of NELS 37. Matthewson, Lisa (2006)
Temporal Semantics in a Supposedly Tenseless Language. Linguistics and Philosophy
29:673-713. Matthewson, Lisa (2006)
Presuppositions and Cross-linguistic Variation. in the Proceedings of NELS
26. Matthewson, Lisa (in press)
Review of Restriction and Saturation, by Sandra Chung and William Ladusaw.
Language. Bar-el, Leora, Henry Davis and Lisa Matthewson (2005) On Non-Culminating Accomplishments. Proceedings of the
North Eastern Linguistics Society 35. Amherst, MA: GLSA. Matthewson, Lisa, Hotze Rullmann and Henry Davis (2006) Modality in St'át'imcets. MITWPL
Salish volume. Matthewson, Lisa (2005) On
the Absence of Tense on Determiners. Lingua 115:12, 1697-1735. Schaeffer, Jeannette and Lisa Matthewson (2005) Grammar
and Pragmatics in the Acquisition of Article Systems. Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory 23:53-101. (2004)
Studies in Salish Linguistics in Honor of M. Dale Kinkade. University of
Montana Press, Missoula, Montana. (Co-edited with Donna Gerdts.) 2004 On
the Methodology of Semantic Fieldwork. International Journal of American
Linguistics 70:369-415. (2004) Clefts vs. Nominal Predicates in Two Salish
Languages. Studies in Salish Linguistics in Honor of M. Dale Kinkade, ed.
Donna Gerdts and Lisa Matthewson, University of Montana Press. (co-authored
with Henry Davis and Scott Shank). (2004) On the Absence of Telic
Accomplishments in St¹át¹imcets. Proceedings of WSCLA 10, UBC Working Papers
in Linguistics. (2003) How Natural is the Meta-Language? Comments on Durst¹s
Paper. Theoretical Linguistics 29:263-274. (2003) An Under-Specified Tense
in St¹át¹imcets. Proceedings of WECOL, UBC Working Papers in
Linguistics. (2003) Quasi Objects in St¹át¹imcets: The (Semi)-Independence of
Agreement and Case. Formal Approaches to Function: Papers in Honor of Eloise
Jelinek, ed. Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and Mary Ann Willie. Oxford:
Blackwell. 34 pages. (co-authored with Henry Davis). (2002) A
Cross-Linguistic Perspective on the Expression of Manner. Proceedings of SALT
XI, ed. Rachel Hastings, Brendan Jackson and Zsofia Zvolenszky, Ithaca, NY:
CLC Publications. 19 pages.
(2001)
Quantification and the Nature of Cross-Linguistic Variation.
Natural Language Semantics 9:145-189.
(2001)
A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on the Expression of Manner.
Proceedings of SALT XI, ed. Rachel Hastings, Brendan Jackson and Zsofia
Zvolenszky, Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. 19 pages.
(2001)
A Salish Stage in the Acquisition of English Determiners:
Unfamiliar 'Definites'. The Proceedings of SULA: The Semantics of
Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. University of Massachusetts
Occasional Papers in Linguistics 25. 18 pages. (co-authored with Tim Bryant
and Tom Roeper; principal author).
(2001)
A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on the Expression of Manner. Papers
for the 36th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages.
University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics, 1-24.
(co-authored with Ana Arregui).
(2000) On Distributivity and Pluractionality. Proceedings of SALT X,
ed. Brendan Jackson and Tanya Matthews, Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
17 pages.
(2000) On the Determiner Systems of St'át'imcets and English Child
Language. University of California, Los Angeles Working Papers in
Linguistics. (co-authored with Jeannette Schaeffer).
(2000) Quantification and (the Absence of) Cross-Linguistic Variation.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Occasional Papers in Linguistics
21, ed. Kiyomi Kusumoto and Elisabeth Villalta.
(2000) One at a Time in St'át'imcets. Papers for the 35th
International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages.
University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics.
(1999) On the Functional Determination of Lexical Categories. Révue
Québecoise de Linguistique 27:2. (co-authored with Henry Davis).
(1999) On the Interpretation of Wide-Scope Indefinites. Natural Language
Semantics 7:79-134.
(1999) Nilh Iz'á Sqwéqwel'lhkalh: Excerpts from the Life
Stories of Three St'át'imc Elders. The 34th International
Conference on Salish and Neighbouring LanguagesI. Kamloops, B.C.:
Secwepemc Cultural Education Society.
(1998) Determiner Systems and Quantificational Strategies: Evidence from
Salish, Holland Academic Graphics, The Hague. 380 pages.
(1998) Definiteness, Finiteness, and the Entity/Event Distinction.
Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 28, ed. P.N.
Tamanji and Kiyomi Kusumoto. Amherst, MA: GLSA, 95-109. (co-authored
with Henry Davis).
(1998) Unselective Determiners. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics
Association. University of Calgary, 143-154. (co-authored with Henry
Davis).
(1997) Parametric Variation in Determiner Systems: Salish vs. English. In
Amaya Mendiko-Etxea and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (eds.), Theoretical Issues
in the Morphology-Syntax Interface. 255-284.
(1997) Salish Evidence on DP-Internal Quantification. Proceedings of the
Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, ed. Anthony Green and Virginia
Motapanyane, Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
(1997) The Semantics of Salish Determiners: A Parametric Account.
Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 15, ed.
Bruce Agbayani and Sze-Wing Tang, Stanford Linguistics Association, 353-368.
(1997) Cedar Roots and Singing Detectives: Attributive Modification in
Salish and English. Papers for the 32nd International Conference on
Salish and Neighboring Languages. (co-authored with Henry Davis and
Sandra Lai).
(1996) On the Universality of Syntactic Categories. Proceedings of the
North East Linguistic Society 25, 79-93. (co-authored with Hamida
Demirdache).
(1996) Subordinate Clauses and Functional Projections in St'át'imcets.
Papers for the 31st International Conference on Salish and Neighboring
Languages, 59-74, (co-authored with Henry Davis).
Link to my son Merlin's website
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I am interested in cross-linguistic variation in the semantics, and what
variation (or the lack of it) can tell us about Universal Grammar. For the
past fifteen years, I have been doing fieldwork on St'át'imcets (Lillooet
Salish). I have worked on a range of areas in semantics and the
syntax/semantics interface, including determiners, quantifiers, adverbs, tense, aspect, modals, evidentials and presuppositions. I am also interested in the methodology of semantic fieldwork,and in native language preservation and oral
history.
Fall 2007, Spring 2008: Sabbatical
