LingLove by Caleb Hicks

Clitic fixations and reduplications
Polysynthetic verb class conjugations
Formal semantic noun phrase denotations
And speech variations in discourse relations.

Sites for phrase landing, ellipsis, P-stranding
Glyphs, anaptyxis, and strict c-commanding
Markedness, mesolects, metapragmatics
Stress-timed iconic, synchronic emphatics.

Phonetically grounded, harmonically bounded
Tense and lax vowels both normal and rounded
Sounds in new nouns are discovered, not founded
Amounting to scholars loud, proud, and astounded.

Reflexes, reflexives, and fresh retroflexion
In proto-words, pronouns, and proform inflection
Phonemic, phonetic, syntactic statistics
Are only a few reasons I love linguistics.

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Caleb Crandall Hicks

I am a fourth-year graduate student in the Linguistics program at UNC.

Linguistic Interests and Research

I am fascinated by typology and linguistic universals, grammatical case in morphosyntax, the morphological encoding of semantics, language origins and evolution, and areal linguistics. I revel in the odder (or less reported) phenomena, such as whistle speech, animal communication, and pharmacolinguistics (the interaction of drugs and language).

Current research includes grammatical alignment of S/A/O cross-linguistically. In particular, I am seeking explanations for the factors which condition split-alignment and the typological distribution of such factors. Other work involves adverbial subordinators and phrasal movement in Guaraní.

Click the title for a PDF of my MA thesis, Morphosyntactic Doubling in Code Switching.

Professional Activities

Instructor, Linguistics 101 (Introduction to Language), Fall 2011
President, Linguistics Graduate Student Association, Academic year 2011-2012
Co-organizer (with Emily Moeng) of the 2012 Spring Linguistics Colloquium
Webmaster for the Department of Linguistics
A copy of my CV can be found here.

Contact Information

Linguistics Department
University of North Carolina
102A Smith Building, CB#3155
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155
linghix (at) live (dot) unc (dot) edu