Lisa Matthewson
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Lisa Matthewson's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of California, Santa Cruz
- Masters Linguistics University of California, Santa Cruz
- Bachelors Linguistics University of British Columbia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lisa Christine Matthewson is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at University of British Columbia with specialties in pragmatics and semantics. She has also done significant work with semantic fieldwork and in the preservation and oral history of First Nations languages, especially St'át'imcets and Gitksan. Matthewson's appointment at UBC was notable because she was the first female full professor in the department's history.
Lisa Matthewson's Published Works
Published Works
- On the Methodology of Semantic Fieldwork1 (2004) (229)
- Evidentials as epistemic modals: Evidence from St'át'imcets (2008) (218)
- Universals in semantics (2008) (169)
- Modals as distributive indefinites (2008) (154)
- Determiner systems and quantificational strategies: evidence from Salish (1996) (137)
- Quantification and the Nature of Crosslinguistic Variation (2001) (134)
- Grammar and Pragmatics in the Acquisition of Article Systems (2005) (133)
- Temporal semantics in a superficially tenseless language (2007) (116)
- On The Interpretation of Wide-scope Indefinites (1998) (107)
- Quantification (2019) (83)
- A familiar definite article in Akan (2013) (56)
- Targeted Construction Storyboards in Semantic Fieldwork (2015) (44)
- Presuppositions and Cross-Linguistic Variation * (2005) (43)
- On the Functional Determination of Lexical Categories (2009) (41)
- How to investigate linguistic diversity: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest (2014) (41)
- Cross-linguistic variation in modality systems: The role of mood (2010) (40)
- Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork (2015) (38)
- ‘Out of control’ marking as circumstantial modality in St’át’imcets (2009) (38)
- Quantification: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (2008) (36)
- On apparently non-modal evidentials (2011) (33)
- Evidential restrictions on epistemic modals (2015) (29)
- Issues in Salish Syntax and Semantics (2009) (28)
- Evidence about evidentials: Where fieldwork meets theory (2011) (26)
- On the absence of tense on determiners (2005) (25)
- Pronouns, Presuppositions, and Semantic Variation (2008) (24)
- Verum focus is verum, not focus: Cross-linguistic evidence (2020) (24)
- Empirical evidence in research on meaning (2015) (21)
- Distinguishing already from Perfect Aspect: A Case Study of Javanese wis (2015) (20)
- Towards a theory of modal-temporal interaction (2018) (19)
- Modality in St ' at ' imcets * (18)
- Zero-marked tense : The case of Gitxsan * (2007) (18)
- Stage in the Acquisition of English Determiners : Unfamiliar ‘ Definites ’ (2003) (17)
- On Distributivity and Pluractionality (2000) (16)
- Modal flavour/modal force interactions in German: : soll, sollte, muss and müsste (2018) (16)
- An Instantaneous Present Tense in Blackfoot * (2007) (15)
- Is the meta-language really natural? (2004) (13)
- Strategies of Quantification in St'át'imcets and the Rest of the World (2013) (13)
- When I was small : I wan kwikws : a grammatical analysis of St'át'imc oral narratives (2005) (13)
- On How (Not) To Uncover Cross-Linguistic Variation (2012) (12)
- The lexical category debate in Salish and its relevance for Tagalog (2009) (10)
- Inchoativity meets the Perfect Time Span: The Niuean perfect (2015) (10)
- A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on the Expression of Manner (2001) (10)
- Circumstantial modality and the diversity condition (2014) (10)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer Towards a Dynamic Account of BE in English (2017) (9)
- FORMAL APPROACHES TO FUNCTION IN GRAMMAR Papers in honor of Eloise Jelinek (2003) (9)
- Introducing the Infant Bookreading Database (IBDb)* (2016) (8)
- Distributivity, Collectivity, and Cumulativity (2020) (8)
- Semantics vs. Pragmatics (2014) (7)
- An unfamiliar proportional quantifier (2006) (7)
- The ‘experiential’ as an existential past (2020) (7)
- Techniques in Complex Semantic Fieldwork (2020) (7)
- Gitksan Modals1 (2013) (6)
- The measurement of semantic complexity: how to get by if your language lacks generalized quantifiers (2014) (6)
- Quasi objects in St’át’imcets: On the (semi-)independence of Agreement and Case (2003) (6)
- Quantification in Gitksan (2017) (5)
- An Underspecified Tense in St ’ át ’ imcets (2003) (5)
- Degree Modification of Extreme Adjectives (2009) (4)
- The Schirmer test with topical anaesthesia. A latent learning effect? (2009) (4)
- Semantics in Indigenous American Languages: 1917–2017 and Beyond1 (2017) (4)
- A unified modal semantics for ‘out-of-control’ marking in St’át’imcets (2007) (4)
- 13. Methods in cross-linguistic semantics (2011) (4)
- Nobody’s Perfect (2022) (3)
- Reciprocity in Fieldwork and Theory (2013) (3)
- Restricting the English past tense (2019) (2)
- Circumscriptive haplologizing reduplicants (2017) (2)
- Quasi objects in St’át’imcets (2003) (2)
- Competition between the German root modal sollen and the imperative (2019) (1)
- The prism of grammar: How child language illuminates humanism (review) (2010) (1)
- Parametric variation in determiner systems: Salish vs. English (2013) (1)
- One at a time in St ' at ' imcets (2011) (1)
- Decomposing distributive numerals in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon Salish) (2020) (1)
- Diversity driven but cognitively constrained: Boas meets Chomsky (Response to commentators) (2015) (1)
- Mood and modality in St’át’imcets and beyond (2012) (1)
- St’át’imcets frustratives as not-at-issue modals (2022) (1)
- Cowlitz Dictionary and Grammatical Sketch. By M. Dale Kinkade. University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 18. Missoula: University of Montana, 2004. Pp. xxix + 341. $20.00 (paper). (2011) (1)
- Why Plain Futurates are Different (2021) (1)
- Evidential-temporal interactions do not (always) come for free (2022) (0)
- Lushootseed Reader with English Translations. By Thom Hess. University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 19. Missoula: University of Montana, 2006. Pp. vi + 291 + 2 cds. $30.00 (paper). (2011) (0)
- The syntax and semantics of distributivity in St'at'imcets (Lillooet Salish) (1997) (0)
- Evidentials in the nominal domain: a Speasian analysis of ʔayʔaǰuθəm determiners (2021) (0)
- Jan van Eijk. The Lillooet Language: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax. Vancouver: UBC Press. 1997. Pp. xxx + 279. $75.00 (hardcover). (1999) (0)
- 13 Methods in cross-linguistic semantics (2019) (0)
- Justification and Truth (2018) (0)
- St'at'imcets I-mini transitivising suffIX alternations: A case for paradigm leveling? (2012) (0)
- Co-anchoring with the matrix clause: French verbal mood and German V2 1 (2019) (0)
- Across mountain and sea: Bringing language to linguists (2015) (0)
- QUANTIFICA T ION AND THE NA T URE OF CROSSLINGUIST IC VA RIA T ION (2001) (0)
- Restriction and saturation (review) (2007) (0)
- Universals in semantics 1 (2008) (0)
- On the absence of tense on determiners : A reply to Wiltschko (2012) (0)
- Future time reference and viewpoint aspect: Evidence from Gitksan (2022) (0)
- Noun incorporation in Sora : A case for incorporation as morphological merger (2016) (0)
- Towards a Theory of Modal-Temporal Interaction (2018) (0)
- Verum in Gitksan (2021) (0)
- Mapping the Boundaries: Rev. of Dirty Silence: Aspects of Language and Literature in New Zealand , edited by Graham McGregor and Mark Williams (1993) (0)
- ON THE INTERPRETA T ION OF (1999) (0)
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