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Martina Wiltschko
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Latest funding
- $8,000
Language revitalization and linguistics at the crossroads: a mutual capacity-building workshop
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $297,100
Towards a formal typology of confirmationals
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
- $137,600
Syntactic interface relations: evidence from three Algonquian languages
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
Language revitalization and linguistics at the crossroads: a mutual capacity-building workshop
Principal investigators: Wiltschko, Martina E.
Keywords: linguistic fieldwork; language revitalization; community-based research; First Nation languages; Ktunaxa
Towards a formal typology of confirmationals
Principal investigators: Wiltschko, Martina E.
Keywords: discourse markers; discourse particles; tags; typology; Canadian English; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; lexicalization; grammaticalization; common ground
Syntactic interface relations: evidence from three Algonquian languages
Principal investigators: Wiltschko, Martina E.
Keywords: syntax; interfaces; syntax-semantics; syntax-morphology; syntax-phonology; syntax-pragmatics; comparative syntax; typology; Blackfoot; Cree; Ojibwe; Algonquian
Development of an online linguistic database and fieldwork data-sharing application
Principal investigators: Wiltschko, Martina E.
Keywords: web application; fieldwork data; database; collaboration; archiving; software creation; open source; natural language processing; language typology
Grammatical categories and the universal functional hierarchy
Principal investigators: Wiltschko, Martina E.
Keywords: functional categories; grammatical categories; tense; number; grammatical features; agreement; morpho-syntax; syntax-semantics interface
Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas
Principal investigators: Wiltschko, Martina E.
Keywords: linguistic theory; indigenous languages; endangered languages; quantization; reduplication; pluralization
Workshop on the Form and Function of Pronouns
Principal investigators: Wiltschko, Martina E.
Keywords: pronoun; anaphora; binding; typology; clitics; person; number
The form and function of pronouns
Principal investigators: Wiltschko, Martina E.
Keywords: syntax; morpho-syntax; syntax-semantics interface; syntax-discourse interface; pronouns; determiners; binding theory; reflexives; reference tracking; clitics; nouns; referential dependencies; reference
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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