User:Joeystanley/oldprofile
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I'm a linguistics student taking a year off between my undergrad and graduate school. My main interests are Language Change and Variation, which extends out to include Sociolinguistics and Dialectology. I'm also interested in Documentation, which includes Language Death, Typology, and Morphology. I lived in western Brazil for two years and got acquainted with Guarani, which I am now trying to learn. I also spent two months in Amazonian Ecuador studying Tena Lowland Quichua, which led to my name on a publication currently in review.
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I minored in Linguistic Computing, and worked with files in preparing them for a type of e-book, using Perl in my most recent job. I've also created program in C# that models Bart de Boer's in The Origins of Vowel Systems [1] which simulates the inception of vowel inventories through self-organization. I've taken his model and added sociolinguistics to it, namely prestige, to simulate realistic language change in a virtual population of agents. Other computer programs I've written include a Kichwa search engine that allows searches by manner of articulation and syllable structure and a Guarani bilingual corpus search engine that uses statistics to guess the translation of words.
To see more about my hobbies besides linguistics, see my Hobbies page.
My current project involves working on pages related to valency and transitivity.
To do
- Define somewhere the difference between an active and an inactive intransitive.
- Lehmann's article on Latin Causatives
- Formal definition of a causative p. 3
- Read Describing Morphosyntax
- English compounds: pg. 92-93
- Work on Inchoative verb. Also pg. 95.
- Work is specifically asked for in Inalienable possession. See pg. 104-105.
- Read Applicative Constructions.
- Add Ainu and San Lucas Quiavini Zaoptec p.1
- Additional benefactive. p. 18. Perhaps make a page on "auto-" constructions.
- Prioritive applicative. p. 20.
- relinquitive applicative. p. 20-21
- English "applicatives" aka Dative shift. p. 39
- Applicativs terminology. p. 39.
- Read Dixon (1994) Ergativity.
- 122-124 has information on extended intransitives.
- Thematic relation. Add stuff from pg. 7. Add citations to the page in general.
- Antipassive voice p. 12–16
- Ergative verb. p. 19.
- subject promotion. Discussed on 27–28. Also on pg. 322–35 of Dixon (1991).[2]
- Manipuri language and semantic-based morphology. pg 29-31.
- More ambitransitive stuff on pg. 54.
- Read Essays on language function and language type, dedicated to T. Givón by Bybee, Haiman, and Thompson (1997) John Benjamins.
- Causative alternation. There are lots of articles on this topic at the library.
- Punctuated equilibrium
- Affix and related articles. Not sure how legit many of those are.
- A page or something explaining S, A, and P. Dixon calls them semantico-syntactic relations. Good pages include Morphosyntactic alignment and Argument (linguistics). See also Subject (grammar), Agent (grammar), Patient (grammar), Thematic relation, not to mention anything else that's capitalized, like Instrument, Gift, Oblique, and other. See p. xxvi of [3] and Chapter 1 of Ergativity[4]
- Central Alaskan Yupik[5]
- Motuna language[6]
- Tariana language
- Pronouns[7]
- Portuguese language#Classification and related languages. I want to find a good source on how "close" Portuguese is to Spanish and other Romance languages.
Contributions
Most of my contributions are on small and endangered languages. I read a lot of books and when I find something interesting about a language I add it to the Wikipedia page. Several times the pages have been so short that I've created entirely new sections ("Grammar", "Vowels", or "Other Morphemes"). I try to cite the most primary source, if it's not the book I'm reading. The two tables below summarize all my contributions.
Langauges
The contributions listed here are usually smaller things that I read from books. The edits are mostly content additions rather than changing the page itself. I haven't done a major change to a language page, but when I do, it'll be under a different category.
| Language | Date | Contribution | Sources | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quileute | January 26, 2013 | Created a new section on morphology which includes special markers for when talking to cross-eyed people, hunchbacks, short men, "funny people", and people with difficulty walking | [8] | This was my first ever edit! |
| Ona | July 11, 2013 | Started a very brief section on grammar saying it's an OVS language. | [9] | |
| Guarani | July 14, 2013 | Created the "Nouns" section which covers nominal tense | [10]: 53 | |
| Guarani | July 19, 2013 | Added four verbal morphemes to the list | [11] [12] | |
| Jemez | August 16, 2013 | Started a morphology section about the curious morpheme that plays around with singular, dual, and plural. | [13] | This was later removed to honor tribal wishes. See the deleted information here, and the discussion about it here. |
| Dahalo | November 6, 2013 | Added "Status of clicks" section | [14] [15] | |
| Panare | November 15, 2013 | Mentioned the etymology of the word "Panare" | [16]: 13 | |
| Urarina | November 15, 2013 | Mentioned the Quechua etymology of the "Shimaku", the local term for the people | [16]: 13 | |
| Yagua | November 15, 2013 | Added a Sociolinguistic situation section, talking about semilingualism among young women | [16]: 17 | |
| Maasai | November 18, 2013 | Inserted the citation for the morphemic tone data that was already there. | [16]: 20–21 | |
| Sabaot | November 18, 2013 | Started a brief grammar section and data showing morphological ATR | [16]: 29 | |
| Yagua | November 19, 2013 | Put a paragraph on adjectives and nouns both having identical syntax and how to determine the head of the phrase. | [16]: 35 [17] | |
| Songhay | November 22, 2013 | A paragraph about a morpheme -ndi which is either the causative or the agentless passive. Some words can have both. | [19] | |
| Yidiny | November 22, 2013 | A paragraph about a single morpheme -ŋa which can either be a causative or an applicative | [18]: 31–32 | |
| Portuguese | November 22, 2013 | Added the causatives section and showed how it differs from other Western Romance languages. | [18]: 35 | |
| Dyirbal | November 22, 2013 | Added examples of taboo register ("mother-in-law" speech). | [18]: 39–40 | |
| Motuna | December 2, 2013 | Added everything. This page had little more than what was automatically generated from Ethnologue. | [6] | I essentially created this page from a boilerplate page. |
| Yidiny | December 16, 2013 | Created a small pronouns section saying that pronouns are nom/acc while demonstratives are erg/abs. | [20] | |
| Lyélé | December 16, 2013 | Wrote a small paragraph about pronouns, mentioning that pronouns, demonstratives, and interrogatives are all collapsed down into one paradigm. | [7]: 8 | Boilerplate page. |
| Kannada | December 16, 2013 | Created a small pronouns section explaining how third-person pronouns are more like demonstratives. | [7]: 13–14 | |
| Marathi | December 16, 2013 | Mentioned that gender distinction is overt in the first- and second-persons only when pronouns act as verbal agreement markers. | [7]: 18–19 | |
| Tamazight | December 16, 2013 | Added a small section on pronouns, mentioning that the gender distinction in the second-person is lost in verbal agreement markers. | [7]: 21 | |
| Warekena | December 16, 2013 | Added one sentence saying that pronouns are simply cross-referencing markers with emphatic affixes. | [7]: 25 | Boilerplate page. |
| Bella Coola | December 16, 2013 | Mentioned that personal pronouns are actually verbs meaning "to be me". | [7]: 26 | |
| Mbay | December 16, 2013 | Added a paragraph saying that there are no personal pronouns. They use verbal affixes and other nouns as pronominal-type things. | [7]: 26 | Stub. |
| Lak | December 16, 2013 | Added grammar section and mentioned that first- and second-person pronouns are merged. | [21] | |
| Nias | December 19, 2013 | Just added a citation to a sentence that was already there. | [22]: 27 | |
| Tlapanec | December 20, 2013 | Started a brief grammar section and mentioned that it overtly marks absolutive while eruptive is unmarked. | [22]: 27 | |
| Acehnese | December 20, 2013 | Started a grammar section, mentioned the split ergativity based on volition, and gave examples. | [23] | |
| Guarani | March 10, 2014 | Added a section about glottal stops. | [24]: 19 | |
| Nomatsiguenga | March 24, 2014 | Started the grammar section and mentioned the two causatives that differ in involvement. Typologically pretty rare. | [25] | Boilerplate page. This citation is really long. Try and get the original source. |
| Kamayurá | March 24, 2014 | Started the grammar section and mentioned the two causatives that differ in involvement. Typologically pretty rare. | [26]: 84 | I found the original source to this. This data was originally found on p. ___ of Dixon (2000).[18] |
| Cavineña | April 24, 2014 | Mentioned the antipassive voice and how it's the only language in the Amazon that has it. | [3]: xxvii | This page could use some work. Maybe I'll adopt it like Jemez |
| Kinyarwanda | April 25, 2014 | Added lots of detailed information about causatives in this language. | [27]: 160–72 | This is a great source. There's a lot of really detailed information about this language here. |
| Yazghulami | July 2, 2014 | Mentioned tripartite nature. | [4]: 40 | First edit after a hiatus. |
Other linguistic topics
Contributions listed here are be smaller, isolated contributions similar to the list above. They are things I read in books and small content additions to the page. For other linguistics-related contributions, see the next section.
| Page | Date | Contribution | Sources | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal TAM | November 9, 2013 | Mentioned Guarani and gave examples | [10]: 50 | |
| Causative | November 22, 2013 | Added Dixon's table of eight ways causatives are marked morphologically | [18]: 34 | |
| Valency | November 22, 2013 | Mentioned a "tritransitive verb" from another language | [18]: 57 | |
| Wikipedia:Language recognition chart | November 22, 2013 | Added Guarani | None | |
| Adversative passive | November 26, 2013 | Added Yup'ik | [5]: 90 | |
| Causative | November 26, 2013 | Added Yup'ik section and a table with eight causatives. | [5]: 98–102 | |
| Grammatical number | December 2, 2013 | Added Motuna to list of languages with paucal. | [6]: 116 | |
| Causative | December 4, 2013 | Added guero- as a third Guarani causative. | [28] | |
| Ergative-absolutive language | December 20, 2013 | Mentioned exceptions to the rule that the absolutive is usually unmarked. | [22]: 27 | |
| Intensifier | March 10, 2014 | Added super and -ass to the examples of intensifiers. Created the "Syntax" section with examples sentences and sources. | [29]: 9 [30] | This was the first time I wrote about swear words. |
| Variation (linguistics) | March 12, 2014 | Created the "Analysis and methodology section" which has a brief discussion on counting linguistic variables and how many times they could have occurred. | [29]: 11–12, 19–21 | |
| Comitative case | March 24, 2014 | Redid all of the references and citations. They were extremely redundant and took up a lot of space. | ||
| Labile verb | March 26, 2014 | Created the page only to redirect to Ambitransitive verb. | ||
| Antipassive voice | April 24, 2014 | Corrected which languages have the antipassive. | [3]: xxvii | |
| Passive voice | April 30, 2014 | Added a section that notes that the passives of the world's languages do not share a single common feature. Added Dixon's criteria. | [31]: 255 [4]: 146 | This source originally found on p. 73 of Dixon & Aikhenvald (1997).[26] |
| Antipassive voice | April 30, 2014 | Added Dixon's criteria. | [4]: 146 | This source originally found on p. 73 of Dixon & Aikhenvald (1997).[26] |
| Impersonal passive voice | April 30, 2014 | Added Dutch. | [26]: 76–7 | This page needs some work. |
| Intransitive verb | May 1, 2014 | Addressed reader concerns about the technical nature of the page. Added lots of examples for the layman. | [16]: 55–61 | |
| Ambitransitive verb | May 2, 2014 | Added discussion on the use of ergative to describe patientive ambitransitives. | [4]: 18–9 | |
| Ergative case parameter | May 2, 2014 | Proposed to delete the page. | ||
| Tripartite language | July 2, 2014 | Added Yazghulami and fixed some citation things. | [4]: 40 |
WikiProjects
I am a somewhat active part of several linguistics- and languge-related WikiProjects. By this, I mean the contributions I would normally do happen to be on pages that are parts of these projects. These tables therefore list contributions that are more to do with cleaning up rather than adding content. They include major revisions to pages or parts of pages, and changes that affect several pages all at once. Accompanying each of these are usually several comments on the talk pages or under these projects' talk page.
General contributions
| Page | Project | Date | Contribution | Sources | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambitransitive verb | Linguistics | November 26, 2013 | Completely redid the main section. The article didn't have any sources, so I added what I could. I added examples, more definitions, and removed controversial terms. | [32]: 4, 5, 20 [5]: 87–88 [18]: 38 | This was my first major edit to a page. |
| Pronoun | Linguistics | December, 16, 2013 | The article is pretty weak for being such a prominent linguistics topic. I'm starting off by adding some sources to strengthen what's already there. | [7]: 1–34 | |
| Causative | Linguistics | March 20, 2014 | Redid a lot of the references and citations. There are a lot of problems with this page. Added the page to the project. | ||
| Jemez | Indigenous peoples of North America, Endangered languages | March 12, 2014 | Major typographical fixes. Someone apparently copied and pasted information in there. Added a note and some bibliographic sources. Contacted some people about changes. | ||
| Jemez | Indigenous peoples of North America, Endangered languages | March 25, 2014 | More typographical fixes. Put the phonemic inventory into tables, added hyperlinks to relevant linguistic pages, and used the source to add information about tone. | [33] | |
| Causative | Linguistics | March 24, 2014 | Updated the "Devices" section to include better explanations and more sections. | [18] | |
| Causative | Linguistics | March 25, 2014 | Added the "Semantics" section and the "Relationship between semantics and mechanisms" section. | [18] | |
| Yup'ik | Indigenous peoples of North America, Languages | March 25, 2014 | Redid some glosses into a table format to make them look a lot better. | ||
| Ambitransitive verb | Linguistics | March 26, 2014 | Redid the references so the link to the main book. | ||
| Dative shift | Linguistics | March 26, 2014 | Redid the references so they use named references now. | ||
| Portuguese | Languages | April 23, 2014 | Some typo fixes, and citation tags. | Got into an edit conflict. That was a first. | |
| Causative | Linguistics | April 23, 2014 | Completely redid the lexical causatives section, splitting it into three kinds per Payne, and adding a lot of information, per Dixon. | : 177 : 38–9 | |
| Linguistics: Participants | Linguistics | April 23, 2014 | Updated the active and inactive participants list. Contacted all inactives. | ||
| Causative Alternation | Linguistics | April 24, 2014 | Looks like this was an alternate page to Causative alternation (lowercase), which had some information that the main one didn't. I merged this into the lowercase one. | ||
| Causative | Linguistics | April 25, 2014 | Added information from Haiman source about the Semantic/Device relationship. | [34]: 784 . | |
| Causative | Linguistics | April 25, 2014 | Added a lot of detailed information about Kinyarwanda. | [27]: 160–72 | |
| Tariana | Languages Endangered languages Indigenous peoples of the Americas | April 28, 2014 | Redid the references to since they all cite the same source. | Hopefully I can add a lot more to this page. | |
| Valency | Linguistics | April 30, 2014 | Finally started a section on valency changing. | [26]: 72 | |
| Causative | Linguistics | May 21, 2014 | Added information about syntax. | [18]: 47–61 |
Pages added to projects
| Page | Project | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ambitransitive verb | Linguistics | March 21, 2014 | |
| Causative alternation | Linguistics | March 21, 2014 | |
| Dependent-marking language | Linguistics | April 29, 2014 | |
| Case government | Linguistics | April 29, 2014 | |
| Head-marking language | Linguistics | April 29, 2014 | |
| Intransitive verb | Linguistics | April 29, 2014 | |
| Monotransitive verb | Linguistics | April 29, 2014 | |
| Transitivity | Linguistics | April 30, 2014 | |
| Impersonal passive | Linguistics | April 30, 2014 | |
| Anticausative verb | Linguistics | May 21, 2014 |
Non-linguistic pages
| Page | Date | Contribution | Sources | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tupã, São Paulo | December 24, 2013 | Added Guarani etymology of the city name. | Nothing cited (yet). If someone questions it I can add something. | |
| Catupiry | March 14, 2014 | Added a source to the Guarani etymology of the word. | [24]: 49 | |
| List of English words from indigenous languages of the Americas | March 14, 2014 | Added "catupiry" from Guarani | [24]: 49 | |
| Moran's I | February 4, 2015 | Added that this statistical analysis is used in dialectology. | [35] |
New Pages
While I haven't created entirely new pages yet, I have found some ideas that could use them. The following is my list so far, with links to my own subpages that have the beginnings of that topic. I would require myself to do extensive study on the topic before creating them, so I haven't finished one yet. When I get the time, I will.
New Categories and Sidebars
I have created some other things that aren't actual pages.