Ongoing Research on Kanien’kéha (2021-present)

  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2023-2025: “Understanding Kanien’kéha verbs: Linguistic research and language revitalization” (PI: Jessica Coon)
  • Ongoing projects include:
    • ELAN transcription training sessions and LingView software development for making material accessible
    • Iakwarihwí:saks partnership with the Ratiwennahní:rats adult immersion program in Kahnawà:ke, supporting RA-ships for community-based learners and collaborative elicitation work with L1 speakers
    • Development of workshops in phonetics, phonology and Praat for L2 learners

55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (2024)

The Grammar of Hierarchy Effects (2023–present)

  • SSHRC Insight Grant on hierarchy effects with a primary focus on Mayan, Algonquian, Ktunaxa, and Tlingit languages (PI: Jessica Coon; Co-PIs: James Crippen, Chris Hammerly, Pedro Mateo Pedro, Will Oxford, Sigwan Thivierge)

Workshop on Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (2023)

Ongoing research on Igala (2021–present)

  • FRQSC Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale, 2022-2025: “Catégories fonctionnelles de l’igala” #2023-NP-311572 (PI: Martina Martinović)
  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2022-2024: “Functional categories at the Igala clausal periphery” #430-2022-00486 (PI: Martina Martinović, Co-investigator: Salem Ochala Ejeba, Collaborator: Kathryn Franich)
  • McGill Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant, July 2021–March 2022: “Igala language: documentation and grammatical analysis” (PI: Martina Martinović)

Ongoing research on Inuktut (particularly Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun) (2014–present)

  • Transmission and Knowledge of the Inuit Language (CRC, 2018-2024, Richard Compton, working on a corpus of spoken Inuinnaqtun)
  • Polysynthesis and wordhood in Inuit (SSHRC Insight Grant, 2018-2024, PI: Richard Compton, Co-investigators: Arnhold, Anja; Elfner, Emily J.; Johns, Alana; Newell, Heather S.; Travis, Lisa D.)
  • 21st Inuit Studies Conference / 21e Congrès d’études Inuit / Inuit Qaujisarninut Katimanirjuanga 21 (SSHRC Connection Grant, 2018-19, PI: Richard Compton, Co-investigators: Fraser, Sarah L.; Hordyk, Shawn; Igloliorte, Heather L.; Watson, Mark K.)
  • Workshop on structure and constituency in languages of the Americas (SSHRC Connection Grant, 2015-16, PI: Richard Compton, Co-investigator: Heather Newell, Collaborator: Jessica Coon)
  • Nominal and verbal incorporation in Inuit (SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2014-16, PI: Richard Compton)

Ongoing research on Tlingit (2012–present)

  • See the Tlingit language resources page for materials and publications.
  • Haa yoo xhʼatángi daak gaxhtootée: We will bring our language out into brightness; SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2019–2023; PIs: Rose-Marie Déchaine, Tim Hall, James A. Crippen
  • Morphologically complex data collection and analysis for improving Tlingit lexicographic models; NSF & NEH Dynamic Language Infrastructure & Documenting Endangered Languages Grant, 2021; PI Keri Eggleston; Collaborators: James A. Crippen, Rose-Marie Déchaine
  • Haa lákhdi shugaxhtootáan: We will open our cedar boxes; SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, 2017–2019; PIs: Rose-Marie Déchaine, Tim Hall; Collaborators: James A. Crippen, Heather Burge, Rose Underhill
  • Reawakening Tlingit; SSHRC Connections Grant, 2018–2020; PI Rose-Marie Déchaine; Collaborators: James A. Crippen, Tim Hall, Heather Burge, Rose Underhill
  • Across mountain and sea: Bringing Tlingit to linguists; SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2013–2015; PI Rose-Marie Déchaine; Collaborators: James A. Crippen, Lisa Matthewson, Gunnar Ó. Hansson

Ongoing research on Mayan languages Ch’ol and Chuj (2011–present)

  • National Geographic Society Explorers Grant, 2018: “Documenting word order variation in Mayan languages: A collection of Ch’ol narratives. #HJ-138R-17 (PI: Jessica Coon)
  • SSHRC Insight Grant, 2017–2022: “Agreement and anti-agreement across languages” #435-2017-0545 (PI: Jessica Coon; Collaborators: Karim Achab, Lauren Clemens, Hamid Ouali, Pedro Mateo Pedro)
  • Endangered Languages Fund Language Legacies Grant, 2016: “A collection of narrative texts in Chuj” (PI: Jessica Coon; Co-investigator Pedro Mateo Pedro)
  • SSHRC Connection Grant, 2015–2016: “Chuj Electronic Database Creation: Documentation and Revitalization of a Mayan Language” #611-2014-0441 (PI Jessica Coon; Co-investigator Pedro Mateo Pedro)
  • SSHRC Conference and Workshop Funding, 2012: “Corpus Approaches to Mayan Linguistics (CAML) Workshop” #646-2011-1601

Ongoing research on Malagasy (1980–present)

  • SSHRC Insight Grant, 2019-2023: “Restructuring in Austronesian”, (PI: Ileana Paul; Collaborators: Diane Massam, Lisa Travis)
  • SSHRC Insight Grant, 2016-2021: “The nature of parameters: representing language universals and language variation” (PI: Lisa Travis; Collaborators: Richard Compton, Jessica Coon, Henry Davis, Ileana Paul)

Mi’gmaq Research Partnership (2012–2016)

  • SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2013–2016: “Developing mobile learning applications for the Mi’gmaq language: New opportunities for language research and revitalization” #890-2012-0091 (PI: Jessica Coon; Co-investigators Alan Bale, Gail Metallic, and Michael Wagner)
  • SSHRC Connection Grant, 2012–2013: “A community–linguistics collaboration for revitalizing Mi’gmaq in Listuguj” #611-2012-0001 (PI: Jessica Coon; Co-investigators Alan Bale and Michael Wagner)