Dr. Andrew Koontz-Garboden
Lecturer in Linguistics
Address:
Linguistics and English Language
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
The University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
UK
Phone: +44 (0)161 275 3163
email: andrewkg@manchester.ac.uk
personal web page
Research specialisation
Lexical and formal semantics, morphosyntax, typology, field linguistics, language endangerment, Misumalpan languages (especially Ulwa), Misumalpan historical linguistics, Spanish, Portuguese, pidgins and creoles
Selected recent publications
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Peer-reviewed journal articles
In press. Ulwa verb class morphology. International Journal of American Linguistics 76.2.
In press. Anticausativization. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
2007. Aspectual coercion and the typology of change of state predicates. Journal of Linguistics 43.1: 115-152
2006. (with John Beavers). A universal pronoun in English? Linguistic Inquiry 37.3: 503-513.
2005. On the typology of state/change of state predicates. Yearbook of Morphology 2005: 83-117.
2004. Language contact and Spanish aspectual expression: a formal analysis. Lingua 114.1291-1330.
2002. (with J. Clancy Clements). Two Indo-Portuguese creoles in contrast. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17.191-236.
Recent papers in conference proceedings
2007. Monotonicity at the lexical semantics--morphosyntax interface. To appear in Emily Elfner and Martin Walkow (eds.), Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2006. The states in changes of state. In press in the proceedings of the 32nd meeting of BLS.
(with Beth Levin). 2005. The morphological typology of change of state event encoding. In Geert Booij, Emiliano Guevara, Angela Ralli, Salvatore Sgroi & Sergio Scalise (Eds). On-line Proceedings of the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM4) Catania, 21-23 September 2003. Pp. 185-194.
Dissertation
2007. States, changes of state, and the Monotonicity Hypothesis. PhD dissertation, Stanford University.
Professional biography
I did my BA (1999) and MA (2001) degrees in Spanish, Portuguese, and Linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington, after which time I moved on to Stanford University, where I finished the PhD in 2007. While at Stanford, I developed interests in issues in lexical and formal semantics, morphosyntax, and typology. I also have interests in language endangerment and documentation, with a particular interest in the Misumalpan language Ulwa, spoken in Karawala, Nicaragua, where I carried out Fulbright funded fieldwork during 2004-2005 (and subsequently) with members of the Ulwa Language Project.
Teaching Areas
Semantics, morphosyntax, typology, field linguistics