Mary Moroney

Research Projects

Publications

2023. More exceedingly comparative: Adverbial and attributive Exceed comparatives.
Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 33, pp. 235-252.
[proceedings paper]

2022. Classifiers can be for numerals or nouns: Two strategies for numeral modification. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 7(1), 1-35.
With Carol-Rose Little and Justin Royer
[preprint][paper]

2022. Classifying classifiers: Evidence from Ch’ol, Shan and Chuj for two types of numeral classifiers. Proceedings of 11th Conference of the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 11), 145-160.
With Carol-Rose Little and Justin Royer
[preprint] [proceedings]

2021. Updating the typology of definiteness: Evidence from bare nouns in Shan. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 6(1), 1–28.
[article][bib]

2019. Interpreting quantification within internally headed relative clauses. Proceedings of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) in Asia 12
[preprint][proceedings]

2019. Definiteness with Bare Nouns in Shan. In Sikos J., Pacuit E. (eds) At the Intersection of Language, Logic, and Information. ESSLLI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11667, 108-123 Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
[paper][bib]

2019. Inconsistencies of the Consistency test. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. 55:1-10.
[paper][bib]

2018. Interpretation of internally-headed relative clauses in Shan. Proceedings of the 44th Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual Meeting (BLS). 197-212.
[proceedings][preprint][bib]

2018. Modeling switch reference in Koasati. Proceedings of the 53rd Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), 231-246.
[proceedings][preprint][bib]

2018. Definiteness in Shan. Proceedings of ESSLLI 2018 Student Session, 174-186.
[proceedings][preprint][bib]

2018. Internally Headed Relative Clauses in Shan. Papers from the Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium on Southeast Asian Linguistics 2017, 102-112. University of Hawai’i Press.
[proceedings][bib]

2016. Modeling obviation in Algonquian. Proceedings of 9th Conference of the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 9), 71–86.
With Carol-Rose Little
[proceedings][pdf][bib]

Presentations

April 26, 2024.
Verb stem plurality and pluractionality in Navajo.
Talk at the WSCLA 2024
With Joyce McDonough and Melvatha Chee
[conference website][abstract][poster]

May 13, 2023.
More exceedingly comparative: Adverbial and attributive Exceed comparatives.
Poster at the SALT 33
[conference website][poster]

January 2023.
Kinds of data of kinds: Restrictions on object-level interpretations.
Poster at the LSA 2023 Annual Meeting

March 4, 2022.
Morphological markedness and semantic interpretation in the nominal domain.
Invited talk at the University of Rochester colloquium

January 7, 2022.
Classifier semantics in count and measure expressions.
Talk at the LSA 2022 Annual Meeting

June 1, 2021.
Repeater classifiers and nominal structure.
Talk at the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS2021)

April 6, 2021.
Two types of numeral classifiers: Evidence from Shan, Ch’ol (and Chuj).
Talk at SemanticsBabble at University of California San Diego (UCSD)
With Carol-Rose Little and Justin Royer

March 20, 2021.
Plural morphology in Shan: Noun, classifier, or measure term.
Talk at the 45th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC45)

August 6, 2020. 4pm (CT).
Two types of numeral classifiers: Evidence from Ch'ol, Shan, and Chuj.
Talk at the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA11)
With Carol-Rose Little and Justin Royer
[conference website][abstract][OSF page]

Compounding the issue: The plural morpheme in Shan.
Talk at the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2020 (SEALS)
(original date:May 18-20, 2020; canceled due to COVID-19)

Classifying classifiers: Two kinds of numeral classifiers across languages. Talk at the Linguistic Society of America
With Carol-Rose Little and Justin Royer
January 3, 2020
[abstract][handout]

Taking the Measure of the Shan Plural Morpheme. Poster at the Linguistic Society of America
January 3, 2020
[abstract][poster]

Interpreting quantification within internally headed relative clauses
GLOW in Asia 2019 Workshop on (Non-)Complementation
August 6, 2019
[handout]

Inconsistencies of the Consistency Test
LSA 2019 Annual Meeting
January 4, 2019
[abstract][handout]

Definiteness in Shan
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
(ESSLLI 2018)
August 9, 2018


Interpretation of internally-headed relative clauses in Shan
Berkely Linguistics Society (BLS44)
February 9-11, 2018
[handout]

Internally-headed relative clauses in Shan
Chulalongkorn Summer School of Southeast Asian Linguistics
June 9, 2017
[handout]

A semantic model of switch reference in Koasati
Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS53)
May 25-27, 2017
[handout]

Modeling switch reference in Koasati
Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC41)
March 24-26, 2017
[poster]

Modeling switch reference in Koasati
NASSLLI Student Session 2016
July 9-16, 2016
[handout]

Modeling the proximate/obviative contrast in Algonquian languages
Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9 (SULA)
May 6-8, 2016
with Carol-Rose Little
[abstract][handout]

Koasati Relative Clauses: Internally Headed
Cornell Relative Clause Workshop
November 14-15, 2015
[poster]