Christopher Culy

A more detailed resume

Personal web page (last revised 8 January 1998)

Recent classes (Spring 1999):

• 103:217 Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
• 103:157 Electronic Corpora and Linguistic Analysis

Education

• BS (Mathematics), Stanford University, 1983
• AM (Linguistics), Stanford University, 1983
• Ph.D. (Linguistics), Stanford University, 1990

Areas of Specialization

• syntax
• morphology
• African linguistics
• Bambara
  N'KO alphabet
• Dogon
  • Dogon language resources
  • A Dogon sentence analysed
  • Dogon numbers
  • Dogon dictionary demo
• Fula

Current Research Projects

• The interrogative in Takelma
• Noun incorporation in Takelma
• Automatic acquisition of a bilingual lexicon from partially aligned text
• Logophoricity in Dogon
• Dogon morphology
• The middle in Donno SO (with Sarah Fagan)
• (Acquisition of) vowel height in Bambara (with Jill Beckman)
• Control and functional control in Imbabura Quechua

Some recent publications

1998 "Statistical distribution and the grammatical/ungrammatical distinction" Grammars 1.1, 1-13.
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1997 "Logophoric pronouns and point of view" Linguistics 35, 845-859.
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1996 "Agreement and Fula pronouns" Studies in African Linguistics 25.1, 1-27.
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1996 "Formal properties of natural languages and linguistic theory" Linguistics and Philosophy 19.6, 599-617.
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1996 "Null objects in English recipes" Language Variation and Change 8.1, 91-124.
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1995 "Ambiguity and case marking in Donno So (Dogon)" in Akinbiyi Akinlabi (ed.)Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc. 47-58
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1995 "Dogon pronominal systems: their nature and evolution" (with Koungarma Kodio and Patrice Togo) Studies in African Linguistics 23.3:315-344.
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1995 "Mapping Theory and Fula Verbal Extensions" (with William D. Davies) in Grammatical Relations: Theoretical Approaches to Empirical Questions edited by C.S. Burgess, K. Dziwirek, & D. Gerdts, pp. 15-31
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1994 "Aspects of Logophoric Marking" Linguistics 32, 1055-1094
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1994 "A note on logophoricity in Dogon" Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 15, 113-125
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