Research Projects

This page is here to present the status (mainly for my own use) of all my research projects.

The key to colour-coding is roughly as follows:

done

in progress

not gotten to yet

The [current] final goal of all the projects is a published paper.

Anteriority of Central Eurasian vowels

This is my dissertation topic.

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
2009	spring 2014, spring 2015	fall 2014, 2015	conference presentation fall 2014, fall 2015 x2	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Turkic-Turkic contact in the Altay

This is the topic of one of my qualifying papers in Linguistics.

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2009	fall 2009	fall 2009	conference presentation spring 2010 ×2	further data gathering summer 2013	fall 2013
			seminar paper fall 2009	further analysis fall 2013

Phonology of Kazakh coda clusters

This is the topic of one of my qualifying papers in Linguistics.

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2008	fall 2008	fall 2008	conference presentation spring 2009, fall 2009	further data gathering fall 2013	fall 2013
			seminar paper fall 2008, spring 2010	further analysis fall 2013

Mongolian elements in Kyrgyz

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2009	fall 2009		conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Kyrgyz [native & loanword] accent

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2010	fall 2010	fall 2010	conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper fall 2010	further analysis

Language change in progress: the effect of language contact on the phoneme inventory of Central Eurasian languages

The first draft of this was just on Kyrgyz and didn't focus on sound change in progress. Me, Andrew, and Niko are now working on a version that looks at Khalkha and Uyghur and extends the theoretical ideas.

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2010	fall 2010	fall 2010	conference presentation spring 2012	further data gathering
			seminar paper fall 2010	further analysis

Turkic initial-position sonorants

This project is the extension of part of my master's thesis

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
spring 2011	spring 2011	spring 2011	conference presentation spring 2011, fall 2011	further data gathering
			seminar paper spring 2011	further analysis

Kazakh (etc.) consonantal nasal harmony

This project is the extension of part of my master's thesis

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
spring 2011	spring 2011	spring 2011	conference presentation spring 2011	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Consonantal interaction in Kazakh vowel harmony

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
summer 2004, spring 2011	spring 2011	spring 2011	conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

The problem with classifying Turkic languages

/ "Deconstructing Turkic classification".

This is a project dealing with issues raised in my master's thesis and first qualifying paper.

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
spring 2011			conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Proto-Turkic long vowels

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2010			conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

PIE obstruent system

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2009	fall 2009	fall 2009	conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper fall 2009	further analysis

IE elements in Turkic

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2004	fall 2008		conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Kyrgyz obstruent system

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
spring 2009			conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Khalkha syllabification / stress and the schwa in Kalmyk

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
spring 2011			conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

American English /ᴁ/

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
1990s			conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

American English [ə] vs. [ɨ] (and /ə/ vs. /ʌ/?)

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
spring 2004			conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Kyrgyz tense[/aspect] system

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2007			conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Kyrgyz mood & epistematic modality

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2007			conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Turkic / CA -n vs. -gu

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
spring 2011			conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Kazakh (and Turkic) ə/ɑ

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
summer 2006			conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Turkic (Kazakh & Kyrgyz) relative clauses

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
winter 2006	winter 2006	winter 2006	conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper winter 2006	further analysis

Zulu click perception

In conjunction with Aaron Albin.

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2010	fall 2010	fall 2010	conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper fall 2010 (fall 2011)	further analysis

Tashkent Uzbek diphthongs and their phonological interaction with gemination

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
summer 2010	fall 2010		conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Documentation and study of Russian-Turkic interlanguages

Syntactic and socio-linguistic aspects

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2011			conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

A solution to the Turkic r/z issue

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2012	fall 2012		conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Resources or other non-research

Kyrgyz grammar

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
2008	fall 2008	fall 2008	conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper fall 2008	further analysis

Kyrgyz morphological transducer

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
summer 2011	summer 2011	summer 2011	conference presentation summer 2012	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis

Kazakh morphological transducer

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2011	fall 2011	summer 2012	conference presentation summer 2014	further data gathering	summer 2014
			seminar paper	further analysis

Khalkha morphological transducer

idea	clear formulation of problem	initial data gathering	first draft	further work	well written complete paper	published paper
fall 2011	fall 2011		conference presentation	further data gathering
			seminar paper	further analysis