Doug Ball
Contact Information
- Language groups
- Austronesian languages, especially Polynesian languages (e.g. Tongan)
- Native American languages (e.g. Wichita)
- Morphosyntax/semantics
- Morphology-syntax interface issues
(word vs. morph; accounting for syntactic facts given a particular morphological status)
- Phrase Structure (tree geometry and constituency), especially in verb-initial languages
- Argument realization and argument alternations
- Morphology/phonology
- Morphological structure and its relationship to phonology
- Consonant alternations
- Historical linguistics
- Diachronic aspects of the above
- Hobby research interests (if that's possible)
- Constructed languages (my own and others)
- Sociology of the field
For the full story, see my CV (pdf). Please feel free to ask for copies of any papers or handouts.
My dissertation, Clause Structure and Argument Realization in Tongan, is now complete. It includes work on the following empirical domains within Tongan:
- Clausal Constituency and Order
- Clauses with Non-Verbal Predicates
- Subject "Clitics"
- Case-Marking
- Noun Incorporation
- The Instrumental Word ‘aki
To download it, go here.
Education
| 2003-2009 |
Ph. D. in Linguistics, Stanford University |
| 1999-2003 |
BA in Linguistics, University of Rochester (NY) |
| 1987-1999 |
Littleton Public School District, south suburban Denver, Colorado (diploma from Arapahoe HS) |
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- Other Stanford Linguistics Grad Students (past and present)
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