User:Joeystanley/oldprofile

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.

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 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).
 * 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 and Chapter 1 of Ergativity
 * Central Alaskan Yupik
 * Motuna language
 * Tariana language
 * Pronouns
 * Portuguese language. 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.

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.

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.

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.
 * Backwards gemination
 * Semilingualism
 * Medial verbs
 * Verbal diathesis
 * Adversative Causative (as a paragraph of causative)
 * Undershoot
 * Sociophonetics
 * Frustrative

New Categories and Sidebars
I have created some other things that aren't actual pages.


 * Category:Transitivity and valency
 * Template: Transitivity and Valency

Friends
These are other editors that I've come across that seem to be active and have similar interests as me.
 * Cnilep
 * Tjo3ya

Books
This is a list of the actual books I read and got information from.