LingLove by Crandall 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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C. Crandall Hicks

I am a second-year Master's student in the Linguistics program at UNC.

Linguistic Interests and Research

I am fascinated by syntax, language origins and evolution, Indic and Indian areal linguistics, and language typology. I revel in the odder (or less reported) phenomena, such as whistle speech, animal communication, and pharmacolinguistics (the interaction of drugs and language). Currently, I am writing my MA thesis on Hinglish, the result of code switching between English and Indian languages.

Professional Activities

This semester, I am a TA for Ling 101. I am also the standing webmaster for the Department of Linguistics at UNC.

Contact Information

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