Matthew Tyler
Latest
26/02/21: See the slides for my DGfS talk “Thematic role and movement to subject position: Muskogean evidence for a deactivation-based account“
15/02/21: Mine and Itamar Kastner’s paper has been published online in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (open access): “Serial verb constructions and the syntax-prosody interface”
20/10/20: See the handout for my talk at Cambridge SyntaxLab: “Syntactically underspecified Voice: Evidence from the causative alternation in Choctaw“
About me
Hi! I am a Junior Research Fellow in linguistics at Christ’s College, Cambridge. I work on syntax and its interfaces with morphology, semantics, phonology and the lexicon.
I completed my PhD at Yale University in 2020. My dissertation “Argument structure and argument-marking in Choctaw” looks at argument structure and its semantic and morphological correlates in Choctaw, a Muskogean language spoken in Mississippi and Oklahoma. As part of the research, I’ve spent time at the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians reservation, working with speakers to document and analyze the language.
Here’s my CV.
mt516 [at] cam [dot] ac [dot] uk
