Resume

• 2008

  Korean

  Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì

  English

  French

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Studied formal syntax

  Linguistics

  President

  A Higher Clause (Linguistics Graduate Student Society)

• 2007

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  Studied theoretical syntax and Dene languages

  Linguistics

  University of Victoria

  Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA)

  University of Cambridge

• Since 2007

  I have volunteered at the TCSA's Teaching and Learning Centre on language revitalization efforts. Some of my work so far: lexicography (adding and checking entries in the Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì Multimedia Dictionary)

  preparation of teaching materials

  and managing the building of IT teaching tools (a verb dictionary and video game).

  Tłı̨chǫ Community Services Agency

  Instructor

  I taught Introduction to Linguistics for Indigenous Language Revitalization to a class of Tłı̨chǫ elementary and high school teachers.

  Aurora College of the Northwest Territories

  Audacity

  Descriptive linguistics

  Microsoft PowerPoint

  Research

  Praat

  Language documentation

  Public Speaking

  Microsoft Excel

  Grant Writing

  LyX

  Language revitalization

  English

  Microsoft Word

  ELAN

  LaTeX

  Morphology

  Syntax

  Leadership

  Microsoft Office

  Propping up predicates: Adjectives and agreement in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì

  In Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì (Dene

  aka Athapaskan)

  copulas appear obligatorily with adjectives predicated of animate subjects

  but are barred from appearing with adjectives predicated of inanimates. I propose that this asymmetry arises from a requirement to realize grammatical agreement for person

  and that animate nouns alone bear a person feature. Unlike verbs

  adjectives in this language cannot inflect; hence copulas are inserted in adjectival predicates as a rescue strategy to avoid ungrammaticality.

  Propping up predicates: Adjectives and agreement in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì

  I work on the morphosyntax and syntax-semantics interface

  chiefly in Dene (Athapaskan) languages. My chief research interests are copular structures

  the clausal periphery

  and temporal grammar. I have been published in Glossa

  IJAL

  and the Canadian Journal of Linguistics. I teach Field Linguistics

  Morphology

  and Language Revitalization

  as well as introductory and service courses. I am active in language documentation and revitalization efforts for Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì and Tsúùt'ínà.

  Nicholas

  Welch

  University of Calgary

  University of Toronto

  Calgary

  Alberta

  Preparing and marking assignments

  Teaching Assistant

  University of Calgary

  Toronto

  Ontario

  Researching the syntax-semantics interface in Dene languages

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  University of Toronto

  Calgary

  Alberta

  Surveying corpora of historical English and instructing students in their use\nAdding entries to the Blackfoot Language Database

  Research Assistant

  University of Calgary

  Toronto

  Ontario

  Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in syntax

  morphology

  fieldwork

  language revitalization and general linguistics

  Assistant Professor

  University of Toronto

  Linguistic Society of America

  Canadian Linguistic Association