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Lisa Matthewson
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Latest papers
St'át'imcets frustratives as not-at-issue modals.
Linguistics · 2022 · senior author
Latest funding
- $58,074
The language(s) of stories: What narrative discourse can tell us about the core properties of language
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $115,908
Questions about Questions in Human Languages
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $177,478
Questions about Questions in Human Languages
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
1 publications.
St'át'imcets frustratives as not-at-issue modals.
Davis H, Matthewson L
The language(s) of stories: What narrative discourse can tell us about the core properties of language
Principal investigators: Rullmann, Hotze
Keywords: formal semantics; narrative discourse; free indirect discourse
Questions about Questions in Human Languages
Principal investigators: Matthewson, Lisa C.
Keywords: semantics; pragmatics; questions; fieldwork; Salish; Tsimshianic; Washo; cross-linguistic variation; First Nations languages of British Columbia
Questions about Questions in Human Languages
Principal investigators: Matthewson, Lisa C.
Keywords: semantics; pragmatics; questions; fieldwork; Salish; Tsimshianic; Washo; cross-linguistic variation; First Nations languages of British Columbia
Tense and aspect systems in human language: evidence from Salish, Tsimshianic, Na-Dene and Austronesian
Principal investigators: Matthewson, Lisa C.
Keywords: semantics; tense; aspect; Aboriginal languages
Across mountain and sea: Bringing Tlingit to linguists
Principal investigators: Déchaine, Rose-Marie A.
Semantics of under-represented languages in the Americas
Principal investigators: Matthewson, Lisa C.
Keywords: linguistics; semantics; Aboriginal languages
First Nations languages in the twenty-first century: looking back, looking forward
Keywords: First Nations language revitalization; First Nations language documentation; youth; indigenous knowledge
Cross-linguistic investigations in modality
Principal investigators: Matthewson, Lisa C.
Keywords: modality; mood; tense; aspect; formal semantics; natural language semantics; fieldwork; Amerindian languages; cross-linguistic variation
Cross-linguistic pragmatics
Principal investigators: Matthewson, Lisa C.
Keywords: pragmatics; semantics; First Nations languages; linguistic fieldwork; presupposition; implicature
Underspecification in semantics
Principal investigators: Rullmann, Hotze
Keywords: semantics; underspecification; number; tense; aspect; definiteness; functional categories; linguistic fieldwork; first nations languages; salish; cross-linguistic semantics
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