Christopher Hammerly
Biographic Data
| ID | 796368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Hammerly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammerly |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMERLY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8270-5773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconciling animacy and noun class in Bantu
This squib investigates the relationship between animacy and the noun class system of Bantu languages. Combining facts from various animacy-sensitive phenomena across the family, including anti-agreement, animacy override, and agreement resolution under conjunction, we argue that the featural properties of Bantu nouns directly encode a prominence hierarchy. We show that all nouns, regardless of the noun class expressed on the surface, are underly…
The relativized EPP
This article explores patterns of agreement and word order in the Central Algonquian language Border Lakes Ojibwe. This variety of Ojibwe shows alternations between VOS and VSO word orders and complex interactions between probes on Voice, Infl, and C. I show that the behaviour of lower probes feeds and bleeds the possible agreement and movement relations on each subsequent probe. These complex interactions culminate with the peripheral agreement …
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe
The aim of this article is to show that long-distance agreement (LDA) in Border Lakes Ojibwe (Central Algonquian) correlates not with topicality, as claimed in past literature, but with evidentiality (direct evidence), a finding that adds to the set of existing evidential extensions of non-evidential categories (e.g., the perfect in Georgian, participles in Lithuanian, the conditional in French) and bolsters the view that verbal agreement can als…
Linking Agreement and Movement
This paper argues for an extension of current models of Agree to capture relativized EPP effects, where a probe for movement targets an element with a specific set of features. We support the proposal through a case study of long distance agreement (LDA) in the Border Lakes dialect of Ojibwe (Central Algonquian), where the patterns of LDA depend on the particular combination of person/animacy features of the embedded arguments. This can be captur…
A set-based semantics for person, obviation, and animacy
This article provides a general analysis of the semantics of person, broadly construed, through a case study of Ojibwe (Central Algonquian). Ojibwe shows person-like distinctions based on whether an entity is living or nonliving (i.e. animacy) and, within living things, whether a being is prominent or backgrounded in the discourse (i.e. obviation). The central principle of the account is contrast: the activation and interpretation of a feature is…
Person-based prominence guides incremental interpretation
The Pronoun Which Comprehenders Who Process It in Islands Derive a Benefit
There is ongoing debate about the role that resumptive pronouns play in the processing of islands in intrusive resumption languages such as English. This squib provides evidence that resumptive pronouns facilitate the comprehension of islands in online processing. The results fall in line with filler-gap processing more generally: when fillers are difficult or impossible to keep active, resumption provides support for forming a dependency. This o…
Linking Agreement and Movement
This paper argues for an extension of current models of Agree to capture relativized EPP effects, where a probe for movement targets an element with a specific set of features. We support the proposal through a case study of long distance agreement (LDA) in the Border Lakes dialect of Ojibwe (Central Algonquian), where the patterns of LDA depend on the particular combination of person/animacy features of the embedded arguments. This can be captur…
Person-based prominence guides incremental interpretation
The Pronoun Which Comprehenders Who Process It in Islands Derive a Benefit
There is ongoing debate about the role that resumptive pronouns play in the processing of islands in intrusive resumption languages such as English. This squib provides evidence that resumptive pronouns facilitate the comprehension of islands in online processing. The results fall in line with filler-gap processing more generally: when fillers are difficult or impossible to keep active, resumption provides support for forming a dependency. This o…
A set-based semantics for person, obviation, and animacy
This article provides a general analysis of the semantics of person, broadly construed, through a case study of Ojibwe (Central Algonquian). Ojibwe shows person-like distinctions based on whether an entity is living or nonliving (i.e. animacy) and, within living things, whether a being is prominent or backgrounded in the discourse (i.e. obviation). The central principle of the account is contrast: the activation and interpretation of a feature is…
Linking Agreement and Movement
This paper argues for an extension of current models of Agree to capture relativized EPP effects, where a probe for movement targets an element with a specific set of features. We support the proposal through a case study of long distance agreement (LDA) in the Border Lakes dialect of Ojibwe (Central Algonquian), where the patterns of LDA depend on the particular combination of person/animacy features of the embedded arguments. This can be captur…
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe
The aim of this article is to show that long-distance agreement (LDA) in Border Lakes Ojibwe (Central Algonquian) correlates not with topicality, as claimed in past literature, but with evidentiality (direct evidence), a finding that adds to the set of existing evidential extensions of non-evidential categories (e.g., the perfect in Georgian, participles in Lithuanian, the conditional in French) and bolsters the view that verbal agreement can als…
Reconciling animacy and noun class in Bantu
This squib investigates the relationship between animacy and the noun class system of Bantu languages. Combining facts from various animacy-sensitive phenomena across the family, including anti-agreement, animacy override, and agreement resolution under conjunction, we argue that the featural properties of Bantu nouns directly encode a prominence hierarchy. We show that all nouns, regardless of the noun class expressed on the surface, are underly…
The relativized EPP
This article explores patterns of agreement and word order in the Central Algonquian language Border Lakes Ojibwe. This variety of Ojibwe shows alternations between VOS and VSO word orders and complex interactions between probes on Voice, Infl, and C. I show that the behaviour of lower probes feeds and bleeds the possible agreement and movement relations on each subsequent probe. These complex interactions culminate with the peripheral agreement …
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Agreement (3 works) · Animacy (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Noun (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Feature (linguistics) (2 works)