PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS RELATED TO THE PROJECT

PI Papers (Those with a link may be downloaded)

Speas

Speas, Margaret. (t2006). Evidential Paradigms, World Variables, and Person Agreement Features. Italian Journal of Linguistics (pdf)

Speas, Margaret (2004). Evidentiality, Logophoricity and the Syntactic Representation of Pragmatic Features. Lingua. 114.3, pp. 255-276 (pdf)

Speas, Margaret and Carol Tenny.(2003). Configurational Properties of Point of View Roles. In DiSciullo, ed. Asymmetry in Grammar. Benjamins. pp. 315-344. (pdf)

Speas, Margaret. "Projection and Pronominal Arguments." Lexical Specification and Insertion, P. Coopmans, M. Everaert and J. Grimshaw, eds, Blackwell Pubs. 349-378. 2000.

Speas, Margaret. "Person and Point of View in Navajo" Eloise Jelinek, ed., WCCFL Papers in Honor of Ken Hale, MIT Press, Cambridge. 2000.

Speas, Margaret. to appear. ‘On the Syntax and Semantics of Evidentials.’ Language and Linguistics Compass.

Speas, Margaret. 2007. ‘Review of Aikhenvald, Alexandra (2004) Evidentiality. Oxford University Press. Oxford’ in Lingua.

Speas, Margaret. to appear. ‘Generalized Functional Heads’ in di Sciullo, Anna Maria, ed. Interface Eligibility at the Edge. Benjamins.

Davis, Chris, Chris Potts and Peggy Speas. 2007. ‘The Pragmatic Values of Evidential Sentences.’ presented at SALT, available at semanticsarchive.net http://semanticsarchive.net

Parsons-Yazzie and Speas

Parsons-Yazzie, Evangeline and Speas, Margaret. in press. Dine Bizaad Binahoo'aah (Rediscovering the Navajo Language) Salina Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ.(approx. 800 pages)

Garfield

Garfield, J. et al. (draft). "Let's pretend: How pretence scaffolds the acquisition of Theory of Mind."

Student Papers

Bateman, Leah. 2006. ‘A Puzzle in the Interaction of Evidentials, Modality, and Person in Tibetan.’ ms. University of Massachusetts.

Bateman, Leah. 2007. ‘The Expression and Interpretation of Temporal Relations in Tibetan.’ ms. University of Massachusetts.

Bateman, Leah. 2007. ‘Cutting the Semantic Pie: Are Tibetan evidentials markers of verbal definiteness? ms. University of Massachusetts.

MacKenzie, Andrew. 2007. ‘Severing Evidence from Evidentials.’ ms. University of Massachusetts.

Moulton, Keir. 2007. Revisiting Postal's DOC Class: Lethal A-Positions. Presented at ECO5, March 2007.

Moulton, Keir. to appear. Clausal Complementation and the DOC Paradigm: A Selection-based Approach. To be presented at North East Linguistic Society 38, University of Ottawa, Canada. October 24th-26th.

PRESENTATIONS:

Antonio, Helen, Kellymay Kelly, Lorene Legah, Lena McCabe, Ellavina Perkins, Cecilia Silentman Carr, Irene Silentman, Peggy Speas, Violet Tso, Roseann Willink, Irene Tsosie. ‘Navajo Spatial Terms: Discourse and Distance.’ presented at Workshop on American Indian Languages, U.C. Santa Barbara, May 2007.

Antonio, Helen, Kellymay Kelly, Lorene Legah, Lena McCabe, Ellavina Perkins, Cecilia Silentman Carr, Irene Silentman, Peggy Speas, Violet Tso, Roseann Willink, Irene Tsosie. ‘Navajo Spatial Terms Made Easier’ presented at Athabaskan Languages Conference, June 2007. To appear in proceedings of Athabaskan Languages Conference.

Bateman, Leah. 2006. ‘Tibetan Evidentials and Their Interaction with Tense/Aspect/Mood Markers.’ Presented to the Evidentials Grant Group. UMass, Amherst. October 3, 2006.

Bateman, Leah. 2007. ‘The Expression and Interpretation of Temporal Relations in Tibetan.’ Presented to the Evidentials Grant Group. UMass, Amherst. April 17, 2007

Davis, Chris, Chris Potts and Peggy Speas. 2007. ‘The Pragmatic Values of Evidential Sentences.’ presented at SALT, to appear in Salt proceedings.

De Villiers, Jill. 2007. ‘The Acquisition of Evidentiality: Implications for Theory of Mind.’ Presented at Catholic University’s Winter Institute. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Garfield Jay, Tom Roeper, Peggy Speas and Jill de Villiers. ‘Preliminary Studies of Acquisition of Tibetan Evidentials.’ presented at Society for Research on Child Development, April 2007.

Garret, Edward. ‘Direct and Inferential Evidence in Tibetan.’ Invited talk. UMass, Amherst.

Hacquard, Valentine, Tom Roeper & Emily Sowalsky. 2007. ‘Investigations in the acquisition of epistemic modals.’ Presented to the Evidentials Grant Group. UMass, Amherst. March 26, 2007.

O’Connor, Alison, Catherine Burgin, Jill de Villiers, Peggy Speas & Tom Roeper. 2007. ‘How Children Coordinate Multiple Deictic Terms in Sentences.’ Presented at the SRCD Biennial Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts. April 29 – March 1, 2007.

Stickney, H., K. Moulton & T. Roeper (2007). False Belief and False Ascription and the Logic of Comparison. Paper presented at GALA: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 6-8.

Stickney, H., K. Moulton & T. Roeper (2007) Can we ameliorate False Belief performance with enriched scenarios? Workshop on Language and Theory of Mind. Smith College. Northampton, Massachusetts. April 2007.

Meeting Handouts (to download)

Speas, M. Evidentials, Embedding, and the Theory of Mind: Overview of NSF Evidentials Grant. Linguistics Colloquium, UMass-Amherst, Nov. 10, 2006 (pdf of ppt)