Jessica Kantarovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 749080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Kantarovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Kantarovich |
| SIGNATURE | KANTAROVICH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8853-9689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Incorporation as a Grammaticalization Pathway
In addition to canonical noun incorporation, Chukchi exhibits other kinds of incorporating morphology that are consistent with polysynthesis but have seldom been considered as part of a unified morphological phenomenon. This paper examines different patterns of incorporation in Chukchi across time and asks: what are the useful loci of variation for typological comparison, how do these distinct patterns emerge diachronically, and how do these feat…
Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education
Research Article| May 01 2024 Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education Jessica Kantarovich; Jessica Kantarovich Ohio State University jessica kantarovich is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University in the Department of Linguistics. She is a field-worker who specializes in language variation and change in situations of multilingualism, especially among minoritized speakers of Indigenous languages of…
Maintenance of Lexical Pitch Accent in Heritage Lithuanian
This study investigates how the unique circumstances of heritage language acquisition impact prosody, an understudied aspect of heritage speech. I examine the perception and production of lexical pitch accent by two generations of heritage Lithuanian speakers in Chicago (n = 13), with a qualitative comparison to one normative native speaker also living in Chicago. The speakers participated in the following: (1) a perception task requiring them to…
Folklore narratives on the toponymy of the Russian Far North (Based on the Yukaghir, Even, and Yakut languages)
We examine the historical toponymic system of the Russian Far North in the context of folklore traditions of Indigenous peoples of the North. Our methodology is narrative analysis, aimed at identifying the semantic features of toponyms, whose origins lie in traditional legends and tales. We treat toponyms as geocultural codes, which provide not only ethnocultural data but also geographic and spatial information. We present shared patterns in the …
Language variation in a shifting community
Research questions: This study asks whether an interface phenomenon such as noun incorporation (NI) displays meaningful socially conditioned variation in the endangered polysynthetic language, Chukchi, by investigating whether speakers of all levels of experience or proficiency make use of NI in a consistent, rule-governed way. Design and methodology: This study compares production data from small groups of speakers of a moribund language. Study …
Local Approaches to Cultures of Northeastern Siberia
Regular readers of Sibirica are surely familiar with the region of Siberia broadly construed, whether the boundaries are defined from an eco-political, geographic, or cultural perspective. Siberia covers an enormous geographic area (generally agreed to encompass the part of Russia that stretches from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east) and is home to just over 37 million people (as of 2021), 1 merely one-fifth of the …
Complexity and Simplification in Language Shift
This paper examines the question of linguistic complexity in two shift ecologies in northeastern Russia. It is frequently claimed that language shift results in linguistic simplification across a range of domains in the grammars of shifting speakers ( Campbell and Muntzel 1989 ; Dorian 1989 ; O’Shannessy 2011 ). We challenge the breadth of this claim, showing that while there are undoubtedly patterns that can be described as a simplification of s…
Alignment change in Chukotkan
This paper examines current approaches to studying alignment change and the role of language contact in the spread of ergativity, using the Chukotkan languages as a case study. Chukotkan is exceptional in that there does not appear to be a single reanalysis pathway that can account for the development of ergative case. Rather, the system appears to be the product of several changes that operated in different domains. This paper provides an altern…
Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education
Research Article| May 01 2024 Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education Jessica Kantarovich; Jessica Kantarovich Ohio State University jessica kantarovich is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University in the Department of Linguistics. She is a field-worker who specializes in language variation and change in situations of multilingualism, especially among minoritized speakers of Indigenous languages of…
Alignment change in Chukotkan
This paper examines current approaches to studying alignment change and the role of language contact in the spread of ergativity, using the Chukotkan languages as a case study. Chukotkan is exceptional in that there does not appear to be a single reanalysis pathway that can account for the development of ergative case. Rather, the system appears to be the product of several changes that operated in different domains. This paper provides an altern…
Complexity and Simplification in Language Shift
This paper examines the question of linguistic complexity in two shift ecologies in northeastern Russia. It is frequently claimed that language shift results in linguistic simplification across a range of domains in the grammars of shifting speakers ( Campbell and Muntzel 1989 ; Dorian 1989 ; O’Shannessy 2011 ). We challenge the breadth of this claim, showing that while there are undoubtedly patterns that can be described as a simplification of s…
Language variation in a shifting community
Research questions: This study asks whether an interface phenomenon such as noun incorporation (NI) displays meaningful socially conditioned variation in the endangered polysynthetic language, Chukchi, by investigating whether speakers of all levels of experience or proficiency make use of NI in a consistent, rule-governed way. Design and methodology: This study compares production data from small groups of speakers of a moribund language. Study …
Local Approaches to Cultures of Northeastern Siberia
Regular readers of Sibirica are surely familiar with the region of Siberia broadly construed, whether the boundaries are defined from an eco-political, geographic, or cultural perspective. Siberia covers an enormous geographic area (generally agreed to encompass the part of Russia that stretches from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east) and is home to just over 37 million people (as of 2021), 1 merely one-fifth of the …
Folklore narratives on the toponymy of the Russian Far North (Based on the Yukaghir, Even, and Yakut languages)
We examine the historical toponymic system of the Russian Far North in the context of folklore traditions of Indigenous peoples of the North. Our methodology is narrative analysis, aimed at identifying the semantic features of toponyms, whose origins lie in traditional legends and tales. We treat toponyms as geocultural codes, which provide not only ethnocultural data but also geographic and spatial information. We present shared patterns in the …
Incorporation as a Grammaticalization Pathway
In addition to canonical noun incorporation, Chukchi exhibits other kinds of incorporating morphology that are consistent with polysynthesis but have seldom been considered as part of a unified morphological phenomenon. This paper examines different patterns of incorporation in Chukchi across time and asks: what are the useful loci of variation for typological comparison, how do these distinct patterns emerge diachronically, and how do these feat…
Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education
Research Article| May 01 2024 Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education Jessica Kantarovich; Jessica Kantarovich Ohio State University jessica kantarovich is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University in the Department of Linguistics. She is a field-worker who specializes in language variation and change in situations of multilingualism, especially among minoritized speakers of Indigenous languages of…
Maintenance of Lexical Pitch Accent in Heritage Lithuanian
This study investigates how the unique circumstances of heritage language acquisition impact prosody, an understudied aspect of heritage speech. I examine the perception and production of lexical pitch accent by two generations of heritage Lithuanian speakers in Chicago (n = 13), with a qualitative comparison to one normative native speaker also living in Chicago. The speakers participated in the following: (1) a perception task requiring them to…
Linguistics (7 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)