Endangered complexity: Inflectional classes in Oto-Manguean languages
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Surrey
Department Name: English
Abstract
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Publications
Baerman
(2017)
Morphological Complexity
Baerman M
(2019)
Inflectional class complexity in the Oto-Manguean languages
in Amerindia
Baerman, M
(2014)
Issues in Meso-American morphology
Baerman, M
The organization of Chinantec tone paradigms
in Cahiers de Grammaire
Corbett G
(2015)
Morphosyntactic complexity: A typology of lexical splits
in Language
Feist T
(2016)
Tone and Inflection - New Facts and New Perspectives
Feist, T
(2021)
Paradigmatic restructuring and the diachrony of stem alternations in Chichimec
in Language
Palancar E
(2012)
A typology of split conjunction
in Linguistic Typology
| Description | Anyone speaking a language like French must deal not just with the fact that verbs display a large number of forms (varying with the subject, tense and so on), but that different verbs behave differently. They fall into conjugation classes. Thus, the rules for conjugating the French verb 'parler' (speak) are not the same as for 'partir' (leave).This makes the task of speaking and understanding such a language more complex than necessary, and yet these rules are an essential part of the language. Such complexity pervades language, but thus far we know little about why it exists or what its limits are. To investigate this, we tackled languages whose verb systems are far more complex than those of more familiar European languages. We studied the conjugation classes of thousands of verbs from 20 languages of the Oto-Manguean family, all spoken in Mexico. The results have been widely disseminated in publications, workshops and presentations, and we have made the database accessible online to the public. We found that the already extreme complexity of these languages is compounded by the existence of multiple inflectional systems acting independently of each other, resulting in complex systems of cross-classification. Aside from different endings, changes in a verb's root may be relevant. Furthermore, most Oto-Manguean languages are tonal and changes in tone often play a role in the conjugation of a verb. Thus, in a system of cross-classification, a verb may simultaneously belong to various classes: one for its endings, another for root changes and a third for tonal changes. Conjugations based on tone contrasts are more susceptible to variation than those based on endings. This means that verbs in the Chinantecan and Chatino branches, which have complex tonal contrasts, can have up to 90 different conjugations. Investigating individual branches of Oto-Manguean, we encountered several unusual morphological systems not previously noticed. Such systems have contributed to our understanding of what a possible word is. We outline three findings here: (i) Most verbs of the Amuzgan branch have a special root when the action is carried out by a plurality of individuals. This means that for every verb speakers must learn two roots, which often have nothing in common. Adding to this complexity, the singular and plural roots often conjugate differently. (ii) In the Otomian branch, all verbs are conjugated with two words, as with the English perfect ('have made'). Verbs differ as to the additional word they require, with the result that the conjugation classes of these languages comprise word combinations, not endings or tones. (iii) In the Mixtecan branch, we found ways in which tonal melodies emerge as grammatical markers. Such tones were once the inherent melodies of prefixes, but as those prefixes were lost, all that remained was their melody. Such melodies then invaded the root, producing complex patterns. Each finding is interesting and surprising; remarkably, we have discovered them all within one language family. The database is available to allow others to investigate the richness of this family further. |
| Exploitation Route | The project website, hosting a large database that is one of the major outcomes of this project, is now live and is accessible to a wide audience. We are currently in the process of exploring ways to publicise this new resource as widely as possible, to ensure people are made aware of it, and as outlined in the grant proposal this will include a follow up article in Ogmios (the newsletter of the Foundation for Endangered Languages). |
| Sectors | Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Other |
| URL | http://www.oto-manguean.surrey.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Our research has been mostly theoretical in nature, but one important outcome of the project is a large database that is now accessible to the public. We hope it will attract attention from those with specialist and with more general interests in language. For the duration of the project, we have also carried out a number of important activities in order for our research to have an impact on society, especially as a part of our long-lasting commitment to the vitalization, documentation and description of endangered languages. ----- Following this plan, on two occasions we have carried out fieldwork on the Oto-Manguean language spoken in the village of Santiago Tilapa, in the State of Mexico. This language, known as Tilapa Otomi, is spoken by less than a dozen elderly people and because of this it is at present one of the most critically endangered languages of Mexico. We want to thank our main language consultant, Doña Petra Cruz, who is 86, for her invaluable and patient help in helping us develop a large database of the verbs of her language for the first time. We gave a dissemination talk at the town hall of this village to inform the community of our work and to show them why we think their ancestral language has value within a modern globalized world. ----- But the most important impact activity by far was an intensive 10 days workshop (of more than 80 working hours in total) we ran in the locality of San Cristobal de las Casas in the south of Mexico. This was an event coordinated by us with the local help of Dr. Roberto Zavala. The workshop took place at CIESAS-Sureste from the 8th to the 19th of July 2013 and was attended by a selected set of native speakers of indigenous languages of Mexico. There were more than a dozen participants, who had been trained mainly at CIESAS to write, read and analyse their respective languages. These speakers are the main actors in the language revitalization efforts of their respective languages and are professionally involved in the bilingual education of children in their respective small communities. ----- The idea of the workshop as an impact activity was suggested to us by one of the reviewers of the project and was seconded by the president of the Endangered Languages Foundation, Dr. Nicholas Ostler with whom we have been in close contact in order to disseminate our findings and impact involvement. The goal of this workshop was to provide the participants with the necessary tools to analyse the complexities of the verbal conjugations of their languages. They were entrusted with the production of a written presentation of the major characteristics of such systems, which could then serve as the base for the writing of pedagogical materials. ----- The impact-led goal of this workshop was not only to generate knowledge about these poorly understood languages, but also to convey to the participants a sense of self-worth with regard to their respective languages by showing them that we care about them. For this, we made it clear to them that the linguistic complexity we find in them is above all a positive thing and it is both very old and unique in the world. We have acted with the mindset of showing participants that in the developed world we care about human heritage, and our message has been that they are a valuable part of it, and should feel proud for it, but also responsible for preserving the language. ----- The 11 languages represented in the workshop are all endangered. They included three Mixe-Zoquean languages -Mixe de Tamazulápam (represented by Godofredo Santiago Martínez); Mixe de Tlahuitoltepec (Juan Clímaco Gutiérrez Díaz); and Mixe de Totontepec (Verónica Guzmán Guzmán)- and eight Oto-Manguean languages -Acazulco Otomi (Nestor H. Green); Amuzgo de Xochistlahuaca (Jair Apostol Polanco); Chatino de Teotepec (Justin McIntosh and Reginaldo Quintas Figueroa); Tlapaneco de Malinaltepec (Abad Navarro Solano); Zapoteco de Mixtepec (Pafnuncio Antonio Ramos); Zapoteco de Teotitlán del Valle (Ambrosio Gutiérrez Lorenzo); Zapoteco de Zoochina (Oscar López Nicolás); and Matlatzinca (Leonardo Carranza) . ----- The impact results from the workshop were translated by way of five relevant presentations by the speakers at the COLOV-4 in May 2014, The COLOV is a biannual event that takes place in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, which provides an opportunity for different people interested in the indigenous languages and cultures of Mexico to meet. It brings together indigenous people, language enthusiasts, policy makers and language experts, for ideological and cultural exchanges. These presentations were an important personal, social and academic achievement for the participants. We also sponsored the attendance of Leonardo Carranza (one of the speakers) at this event, and we provided him guidance in presenting his original work. This was especially important because Mr. Carranza is the youngest speaker of Matlatzinca, and all efforts to document the language before it disappears should in principle involve him as a main actor. Similarly, we have invited two other workshop participants to participate in an edited volume we are editing as part of the outcomes of this project. This will give them international recognition, which is very important, not only for them as individuals but for the small communities they represent. |
| Sector | Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |
| Description | Lexical splits: a novel perspective on the structure of words |
| Amount | £446,040 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/N006887/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 08/2019 |
| Title | Oto-Manguean Inflectional Class Database |
| Description | The Oto-Manguean Inflectional Class Database contains over 13,000 verbal entries from twenty Oto-Manguean languages, along with information pertaining to each verb's inflectional class membership. The database was created for the project 'Endangered Complexity: Inflectional classes in Oto-Manguean languages', jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council under grant number RES-062-23-3126. This support is gratefully acknowledged. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This is an open-access database and therefore both researchers and speakers of the languages represented in the database have unrestricted access to all the data. The data can also be downloaded in CSV format, allowing users the freedom to use the data as they see fit. We have been explicit about the sources of our data, making it easy to cite the data correctly, thus ensuring that both our collaborators and the authors of published data we have used receive the credit they are due. |
| URL | http://www.oto-manguean.surrey.ac.uk/ |
| Description | . Tilapa Otomi conjugation classes: An analysis of their textual distribution. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
| Results and Impact | A 6hrs course given Séminaire doctoral : Description et Typologie linguistique at the Structure et Dynamique des Langues, CNRS February 2 for 20 postgraduates Dissemination of research results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Brown, Dunstan. 2015. Defaults and implicational relations. Invited talk, Université Paris Diderot, October 26, 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the Université Paris VII |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Brown, Dunstan. 2015. Evaluating Morphological Complexity with Default-Inheritance Modelling. Paper presented at the the workshop 'Morphological complexity: Empirical and cross-linguistic approaches', 48th Annual Meeting of the SLE, Leiden, September 1-5. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk stimulated discussion of relationship between implicational relations and defaults. The talk will inform writing on a book contracted with CUP |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Brown, Dunstan. 2015. Extremes of morphological complexity. Invited talk, Université Paris Diderot, October 22, 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the Université Paris VII |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Brown, Dunstan. 2015. Implicative relations and defaults: what they say about morphological complexity, invited talk to General Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford, November 17, 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited talk for the General Linguistics Seminar at Oxford. I presented my work on the computational modelling of the Tlatepuzco verbal system (particularly the tone classes) and showed that a combination of default assignment and classes representing the key implicational relations could account fairly well for this complex system. I found the discussion at the end to be particularly useful and am factoring it in to my writing on this topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Brown, Dunstan. 2015. Modelling inflection. Invited talk, UFR Linguistique, Université Paris Diderot, October 19, 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Part of an invited lecture series at the University of Paris VII |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Brown, Dunstan. 2015. Typology, system-level analyses, and default-inheritance. Paper presented at the Theme Workshop 'System-level typology', 11th Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The talk was part of a workshop on system-level typology at the biennial meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology. The talk prompted a number of questions and requests for copies of the paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.unm.edu/~alt2015/finalconferenceschedule.pdf |
| Description | Brown, Dunstan. 2015. Understanding complex inflectional systems through default inheritance modelling. Keynote talk, Workshop 'Inheritance Hierarchies in Morphology', University of Zürich, 10-11 November, 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An invited keynote at the University of Zürich, workshop on default inheritance modelling of morphological systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Brown, Dunstan. 2015. What is morphological complexity and how useful a notion is it? Invited talk, UFR Linguistique, Université Paris Diderot, October 12, 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at the Université of Paris VII. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Brown, Dunstan. 2017. Canonical morphological complexity: a balancing act between lexicon and grammar. Presentation to the Cambridge Linguistics Forum, Cambridge, February 9, 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The talk engendered discussion about the nature of morphological complexity and the question of its psycholinguistic status. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Brown, Dunstan. 2019. Key dimensions of morphology. Paper presented at the theme session 'Meet the Parents: (Re-)Visiting Morphological Theory', Biennial International Morphological Processing Conference, Moproc 2019, University of Tübingen, Nov. 4 - Nov 2, 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a presentation at a conference on processing. The presentation dealt with ways of defining complexity in inflectional systems. It included modelling based on datasets from the project (available online). Audience reaction included downloading data from the project for further modelling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://quantling.org/MoProc2019/ |
| Description | Corbett, Greville G. 16 October 2012. Representing paradigms: Slavonic data in typological perspective. 37th Meeting of the International Commission on the Grammatical Structure of the Slavonic Languages, Department of Slovak Language, Constantine the Phi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Corbett, Greville G. 16 October 2012. Representing paradigms: Slavonic data in typological perspective. 37th Meeting of the International Commission on the Grammatical Structure of the Slavonic Languages, Department of Slovak Language, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia, 16-18 October 2012 increase interest |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Discovering classes in Tlatepuzco Chinantec |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at workshop 'Theoretical and Computational Morphology (TACMO): New Trends and Synergies', 19th International Congress of Linguists The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Enrique L. Palancar and Jean-Léo Léonard (organisers). 17-18 June 2013. Workshop: "Tons et paradigmes flexionnels: modélisation et parcimonie" / "Disentangling the inflectional role of tone". Maison de la Recherche de Paris 3, Paris. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | increase in knowledge discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Enrique L. Palancar and Robert Zavala Maldonado (organisers). 8-19 July 2013. Workshop on the inflectional classes of the languages of Mesoamerica. CIESAS-Sureste, San Cristóbal de Las Casa, Oaxaca, Mexico. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | increase in knowledge discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Evolución de la complejidad morfológica: La diacronía de las conjugaciones verbales del otomí. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invited paper at Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica VI. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Feist, Timothy and Enrique L. Palancar (organisers). 14 March 2014. Inflectional morphology and verb classes in the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico. University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | increase in understanding discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Feist, Timothy and Enrique L. Palancar. 27 April 2014. Patrones en la flexión tonal del cuicateco. Coloquio sobre lenguas otomangues y vecinas (COLOV) 6, Oaxaca, Mexico. 27-27 April 2014. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | increase in understanding many discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Feist, Timothy and Enrique L. Palancar. 28 June 2013. Disentangling the tonal inflection of Cuicatec. International workshop "Tons et Paradigmes Flexionnels: Modélisation et Parcimonie" / "Disentangling the Inflectional Role of Tone", Maison de la Recherc |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | discussions ensued increase awareness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Feist, Timothy and Lucy Bell. 2015. Lost for words: Endangered complexity in the languages of Mexico. The Huffington Post - The Blog, 10 July 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog post was shared on social media more than 200 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/lucy-bell/languages-mexico_b_7719432.html |
| Description | Feist, Timothy and Lucy Bell. 2015. You thought Spanish was hard? Discovering the complexity of indigenous languages of Mexico. The Huffington Post - The Blog, 25 June 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog post was shared via / liked on social media more than 250 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/lucy-bell/you-thought-spanish-was-h_b_7642844.html |
| Description | Feist, Timothy. 14 March 2014. Constructing a database of Oto-Manguean inflectional classes. Workshop on Inflectional morphology and verb classes in the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given at the "Inflectional morphology and verb classes in the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico" workshop The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Feist, Timothy. 27 April 2014. Construyendo una base de datos de acceso libre sobre la morfología verbal de las lenguas otomangues. Coloquio sobre lenguas otomangues y vecinas (COLOV) 6, Oaxaca, Mexico. 27-27 April 2014. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at Coloquio sobre lenguas otomangues y vecinas (COLOV) 6, Oaxaca, Mexico. 27th April 2014. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Feist, Timothy. 3 December 2012. Verbal inflection in San Juan Colorado Mixtec. Surrey Linguistics Circle, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | discussions ensued increase awareness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Feist, Timothy. 31 August 2013. Choosing what bit? Tone and Inflection in Cuicatec. Comparative Morphology & Morphological Theory, session of the LAGB Annual Meeting. SOAS, London, 28-31 August 2013. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | increase in interest increase in awareness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Greville G. Corbett. Paradigm conventions, SLE46 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Greville G. Corbett: Paradigm conventions. Paper at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split, 20 September 2013. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Inflection classes and orthogonal conditions. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Greville Corbett. 6 June 2014. "Inflection classes and orthogonal conditions." Paper at the Workshop "Dependencies among Systems of Language" (organized by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Ardennes, Belgium, 4-7 June 2014. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Inflection classes and orthogonal conditions. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Greville Corbett: "Inflection classes and orthogonal conditions." Paper presented at the Workshop "Synchrony and Diachrony of Inflectional Classes: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations" at the 16th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 31 May 2014. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Inflection working overtime: the case of zero stem in Cuicatec. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at Manchester Forum in Linguistics The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Inflectional classes in the languages of the Americas: an overview. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper read at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), Boston. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Morphological Complexity. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk presented at the Psycholinguistics Research Group, University of York. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Oto-Manguean inflection classes in the light of morphological typology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given at the "Inflectional morphology and verb classes in the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico" workshop. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Palancar, Enrique L. 2015. Cross-classification in the inflection of Amuzgo verbs. Paper read at Décembrettes 9: International Conference on Morphology. Toulouse, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès. December 3-4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 25 people used to working with derivation in French were introduced to inflection in Amuzgo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Palancar, Enrique L. and Timothy Feist. 1 June 2014. The singular/plural split and the marking of verb inflectional classes in San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo. Workshop: "Synchrony and diachrony of Inflectional Classes: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations" at 16th International Morphology Meeting (IMM 16), Budapest, Hungary. 29 May-1 June 2014. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk led to useful discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Palancar, Enrique L. and Timothy Feist. 13 October 2015. The rare plural subject split of Amuzgo verbs. Journée d'étude: 'Approches formelles, quantitatives et descriptives des systèmes morphologiques'. University of Chicago Center in Paris, Paris. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sparked interest increase interest in study of OtoManguean languages |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Palancar, Enrique L., Petros Karatsareas and Timothy Feist (organisers). 31 May - 1 Jun 2014. Synchrony and diachrony of inflectional classes: theoretical and empirical considerations. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop at the 16th International Morphology Meeting (IMM 16), Budapest, Hungary, 31st May - 1st Jun 2014. The workshop led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Paradigms: How we represent them and what we mean. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Paradigms: representation and meaning. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk presented at the symposium "Paradigm change in historical reconstruction: The Transeurasian languages and beyond", University of Mainz. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Perífrasis y clases flexivas en otomí |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Carried out with Baerman, M. It was a presentation of results of research at Coloquio de Lenguas Otomangues y Vecinas IV, Oaxaca, Mexico 24-27 April, where many indigenous people of Mexico attend. Many people were delighted to know that there is linguistic research being carried on the indigenous languages of Mexico in the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Revisiting the conditioning and distribution of the subject suffixes in Lealao Chinantec. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper read at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), Boston The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | The Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico: Current research by the Surrey Morphology Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A text advertising the type of research and impact of research was published in the newsletter OGMIOS about with wide distribution among the public interested in endangered languages. We are not in a position to know. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.ogmios.org/ |
| Description | The history and evolution of the conjugation classes of Otomi. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper read at the Workshop on the Growth, Maintenance and Decline of Morphological Complexity, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | The on-going documentation of Tilapa Otomi: A critically endangered language of Mexico |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invited paper presented at Journée d'études EFL: Documentation des langues en danger: approches qualitatives, expérimentales et participatives. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | The organization of Chinantec tone paradigms. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper read at Décembrettes 8 - International Conference on Morphology, Bordeaux. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Verbal inflection with applicative-like function?: The adverbial tenses in Otomi-Mazahua. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper read at Syntax of the World's Languages 5, Center for Advanced Academic Studies, University of Zagreb. The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | When two agreement systems compete: The suffix classes of Lealao Chinantec |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
| Results and Impact | A talk given at the Linguistic Typology Research Seminar TypUlm, École Normale Supérieure de Paris, June 6 for 25 postgraduates General interest |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | [Timothy Fest, interviewed for article in Mexican press]. Al rescate de las lenguas otomangues ("To the rescue of Oto-Manguean language"). El Universal (Mexico), 20 July 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Less than 48-hours after being published, the online version had been shared on Facebook more than 2,300 times! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cultura/patrimonio/2015/07/20/al-rescate-de-las-lenguas-otoma... |