I'm a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am a member of the Graduate Linguistics Student Association, from which you can order many fine publications, including dissertations, occasional papers, and the ever popular proceedings of NELS. I am also a member of the Skeptics Society and the Linguistic Society of America.
--Email--
cmdavis AT linguist DOT umass DOT edu
June 9-10 Talk at LENLS 2008.
--Interests--
My primary research interests are in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interface(s). I am currently working as an RA on The Project on Epistemology and Indexicality in Navajo, Tibetan and English. I have done work on the pragmatics of evidentials, and ongoing work on sentence final particles in Japanese. Recently I've started doing some work on issues of learnability and computer simulation of learning algorithms. I have a long-standing interest in Japanese linguistics, and often draw my data from Japanese.
-Outside Academia--
I like to study and play go, although I rarely have time to these days. I spend an unreasonable amount of time tinkering with linux, to which my pc is now monogamously wedded (no dual-booting!). This is not, despite popular misconception, due to any inherent difficulty running linux, but to an insatiable urge to hack.
I used to practice wushu and lion dancing. You can visit my wushu alma mater here and my lion dancing alma mater here. These days I am practicing Shotokan Karate.
