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