Will Oxford
Biographic Data
| ID | 830467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Will Oxford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Will |
| FAMILY NAME | Oxford |
| SIGNATURE | OXFORD W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4215-6076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Probe Specification and Agreement Variation: Evidence from the Algonquian Inverse
The distribution of a special agreement pattern known as the “inverse” varies across the Algonquian languages. This article shows that, under an interaction-and-satisfaction model of φ-agreement (Deal 2015, 2021), twelve distinct distributions of inverse agreement can be derived simply by varying the interaction and satisfaction conditions of the probe on Infl. This syntax-based approach to agreement variation has strong predictive power: it not …
A tale of two inverses
The functional-typological literature distinguishes two kinds of inverse constructions: inverse voice, in which the patient becomes the subject, and inverse alignment, in which the patient is agreed with like a canonical subject. In this literature, Algonquian languages are held to be the prototypical example of a system in which the two kinds of inverses coexist: the inverse is a "deep" voice construction in clauses with two third-person argumen…
An illusory subject preference in Algonquian agreement
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique - 66(3), September/septembre 2021
The person-animacy connection: Evidence from Algonquian and Dene
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique - 66(3), September/septembre 2021
The syntax of person
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique - 64(4), December/décembre 2019
Inverse marking and Multiple Agree in Algonquin: Complementarity and variability
Variation and change in the Degree Phrase
This squib investigates syntactic variation and change in the Degree Phrase (DegP) using three modifiers in the semantic field of ‘different’ as a case study: English different and other and French différent . The squib makes two main claims. The synchronic claim is that these modifiers display extensive microsyntactic variation, spanning a range of positions from A in the DegP to D in the DP. The diachronic claim is that items in this class disp…
The Activity Condition as a Microparameter
Using data from agreement in three Algonquian languages (Ojibwe, Cheyenne, and Plains Cree), this squib shows that effects typically attributed to Chomsky's ( 2000 , 2001 ) Activity Condition (AC) can vary not only across languages, as in Baker's (2008b) macroparametric proposal, but within a language as well. AC effects are thus another instance in which an apparent macroparameter turns out, on closer inspection, to be a microparameter instead, …
The Clause-Typing System of Plains Cree: Indexicality, Anaphoricity, and Contrast by Clare Cook
Patterns of contrast in phonological change: Evidence from Algonquian vowel systems
This article proposes that patterns of phonological contrast should be added to the list of factors that influence sound change. It adopts a hierarchically determined model of contrast that allows for a constrained degree of crosslinguistic variation in contrastive feature specifications. The predictions of this model are tested against a database comprising the set of vowel changes in the Algonquian languages. The model reveals striking commonal…
Inverse marking and Multiple Agree in Algonquin: Complementarity and variability
The Activity Condition as a Microparameter
Using data from agreement in three Algonquian languages (Ojibwe, Cheyenne, and Plains Cree), this squib shows that effects typically attributed to Chomsky's ( 2000 , 2001 ) Activity Condition (AC) can vary not only across languages, as in Baker's (2008b) macroparametric proposal, but within a language as well. AC effects are thus another instance in which an apparent macroparameter turns out, on closer inspection, to be a microparameter instead, …
Probe Specification and Agreement Variation: Evidence from the Algonquian Inverse
The distribution of a special agreement pattern known as the “inverse” varies across the Algonquian languages. This article shows that, under an interaction-and-satisfaction model of φ-agreement (Deal 2015, 2021), twelve distinct distributions of inverse agreement can be derived simply by varying the interaction and satisfaction conditions of the probe on Infl. This syntax-based approach to agreement variation has strong predictive power: it not …
Patterns of contrast in phonological change: Evidence from Algonquian vowel systems
This article proposes that patterns of phonological contrast should be added to the list of factors that influence sound change. It adopts a hierarchically determined model of contrast that allows for a constrained degree of crosslinguistic variation in contrastive feature specifications. The predictions of this model are tested against a database comprising the set of vowel changes in the Algonquian languages. The model reveals striking commonal…
A tale of two inverses
The functional-typological literature distinguishes two kinds of inverse constructions: inverse voice, in which the patient becomes the subject, and inverse alignment, in which the patient is agreed with like a canonical subject. In this literature, Algonquian languages are held to be the prototypical example of a system in which the two kinds of inverses coexist: the inverse is a "deep" voice construction in clauses with two third-person argumen…
Patterns of contrast in phonological change: Evidence from Algonquian vowel systems
This article proposes that patterns of phonological contrast should be added to the list of factors that influence sound change. It adopts a hierarchically determined model of contrast that allows for a constrained degree of crosslinguistic variation in contrastive feature specifications. The predictions of this model are tested against a database comprising the set of vowel changes in the Algonquian languages. The model reveals striking commonal…
The Clause-Typing System of Plains Cree: Indexicality, Anaphoricity, and Contrast by Clare Cook
Variation and change in the Degree Phrase
This squib investigates syntactic variation and change in the Degree Phrase (DegP) using three modifiers in the semantic field of ‘different’ as a case study: English different and other and French différent . The squib makes two main claims. The synchronic claim is that these modifiers display extensive microsyntactic variation, spanning a range of positions from A in the DegP to D in the DP. The diachronic claim is that items in this class disp…
The Activity Condition as a Microparameter
Using data from agreement in three Algonquian languages (Ojibwe, Cheyenne, and Plains Cree), this squib shows that effects typically attributed to Chomsky's ( 2000 , 2001 ) Activity Condition (AC) can vary not only across languages, as in Baker's (2008b) macroparametric proposal, but within a language as well. AC effects are thus another instance in which an apparent macroparameter turns out, on closer inspection, to be a microparameter instead, …
The syntax of person
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique - 64(4), December/décembre 2019
Inverse marking and Multiple Agree in Algonquin: Complementarity and variability
An illusory subject preference in Algonquian agreement
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique - 66(3), September/septembre 2021
The person-animacy connection: Evidence from Algonquian and Dene
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique - 66(3), September/septembre 2021
A tale of two inverses
The functional-typological literature distinguishes two kinds of inverse constructions: inverse voice, in which the patient becomes the subject, and inverse alignment, in which the patient is agreed with like a canonical subject. In this literature, Algonquian languages are held to be the prototypical example of a system in which the two kinds of inverses coexist: the inverse is a "deep" voice construction in clauses with two third-person argumen…
Probe Specification and Agreement Variation: Evidence from the Algonquian Inverse
The distribution of a special agreement pattern known as the “inverse” varies across the Algonquian languages. This article shows that, under an interaction-and-satisfaction model of φ-agreement (Deal 2015, 2021), twelve distinct distributions of inverse agreement can be derived simply by varying the interaction and satisfaction conditions of the probe on Infl. This syntax-based approach to agreement variation has strong predictive power: it not …
Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Natural language processing (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Inverse (3 works)