Linguistics department research focuses on North American
Aboriginal languages (Cree, Innu-aimun (Montagnais/Naskapi), Inuktitut,
Mi'kmaq, Cayuga) and on variation and change in local languages
and dialects (English and French). Departmental research also
contains a strong historical and comparative component, particularly
with respect to Indo-European (Greek, Sanskrit, and Baltic), and
Algonquian and Bantu language families. Other areas of specialization
include language acquisition, experimental phonetics, and phonology
of language disorders.
BLACK, James Professor
Keywords
• Syntax; French; phonetics
Current research
• Editing the linguistics journal, Linguistica Atlantica
Past research
• Microparametric syntax: dialect variation in syntax,
feature checking and movement
BRANIGAN, Philip Associate professor
Keywords
• Algonquian; Germanic; Athapaskan; semantics; morpho-syntax
Research specialty
• Syntactic theory; Algonquian languages; Germanic languages;
Athapaskan languages, semantics, morpho-syntax
Current research
• Morphology and syntax of Innu-aimun
• Clause structure in Germanic languages
Past research
• French question formation
• Japanese adverbs
• Navaho verbal morphology
BUBENIK, Vit. M. Research professor
Keywords
• Historical and comparative linguistics; Indo-European
languages (Indic, Hellenic, Slavic); functional grammar; natural
morphology; historical syntax
Current research
• Morphology and syntax of Indo-Aryan languages
• Tense and aspect in Indo-European languages
Past research
• Morphology and syntax of Sanskrit and Prakrits
• Sociolinguistics of Hellenistic Greek
• Phonology and morphology of Ancient Greek
Potential research
• Cognitive semantics and linguistic theories
• Morphology and syntax of Medieval Greek and South Slavic
languages
• Adpositions in Indo-European languages (a study of spatially-based
contrasts)
CLARKE, Sandra Professor
Keywords
• Sociolinguistics; language and gender; Algonquian;
English; Newfoundland; Labrador; Aboriginal people
Current research
• St. John's English
• Phonological variation, language variation and change in
Sheshatshiu Innu-aimun (Montagnais)
• Newfoundland English
Past research
• Vowel shifting
HEWSON, John Professor, University Research Professor
(1985)
Keywords
• English; French; Romance; Algonquian; historical linguistics;
grammatical meaning; classics; Mi'Kwaq
Current research
• Proto-Algonquian word formatives
• Cognitive grammar of English
• Indo-European preverbs and prepositions
Past research
• Proto-Algonquian dictionary
• Linguistic theories
• Tense and aspect in Indo-European
Potential research
• Cognitive research and grammatical systems
MACKENZIE, Marguerite Associate professor
Keywords
• Cree-Innu (Montagnais) and Naskapi dialects; Aboriginal
language education; language variation; Fijian language
Current research
• Anaphora in Innu-aimun (Montagnais)
• Dictionary and texts of Labrador Innu (Montagnais and Naskapi)
• Legends and stories of the Quebec Naskapi
Past research
• Lexicons and grammar of dialects, Cree, Innu (Montagnais)
and Naskapi
• Cree Lexicon
• Preverbs in Naskapi: function and distribution
• Aboriginal language education
• Dialects of western Fijian
Potential research
• Reference grammar of Quebec Naskapi
• Historical dialects of Innu (Montagnais)
NURSE, Derek Research professor
Keywords
• Historical linguistics; contact; Africa; Swahili; tense-aspect
Current research
• Bantu tense and aspect systems
Past research
• Bantu language classification
• Diachronic phonological change
• History of Swahili
• Language contact: case studies
Potential research
• East African phonological systems
PADDOCK, Harold Professor
Keywords
• English dialectology; regional language studies; language
variation and change, esp. sound change; Indo-European; experimental
phonetics
Current research
• Evolution of Proto-Indo-European phonology
Past research
• Dialectical mapping of Newfoundland and Labrador (lexical,
grammatical, and phonological)
• Historical change and regional variation in some grammatical
features of English
• Distinctive features and their conditioning of sound changes
STEINBERGS, Aleksandra Associate professor
Keywords
• Historical reconstruction of Proto-Baltic vocabulary
Current research
• Proto-Baltic dictionary, project
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