Christopher A. Straughn

PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago

 

Dissertation:

Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh


CV


Professional Interests

  1. Evidentiality

  2. Complementation

  3. Turkic languages

  4.     Sakha Dictionary

  5.     (Incomplete)

  6. Case & Voice

  7. Incorporation

  8. Argument Structure


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  1. •Handout on Sakha NI from BLS

  2. •Handout on Uzbek Complementation from PLM


PHOTOS


CLS

Officer 2005-06


Links

University of Chicago

U of C Linguistics

Regenstein Library

 

The majority of my work focuses on the Turkic languages, although I reference a wide variety of languages in my work on syntax, morphology, and typology.

I am especially interested in the expression of verbal categories, in particular, as they relate to the expression of evidential meaning.  I am also interested in the left periphery as it relates to hierarchies of complementation.


The image above is from Mahmud al-Kashgari’s Dīvān Luğāt at-Turk, an early work of Turkic language studies and one of the first works to describe evidentiality.

 

About Me

Copyright © 2012 Christopher A. Straughn

straughn@uchicago.edu