Travis Major

Recent News:

• I have an NSF grant (co-PI) Harold Torrence that has brought a ton of excitement (and work) into my life. The focus of the grant is to carry out research on Niger-Congo languages in Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal, with the ultimate goal of documenting the clausal complementation systems of each of these languages.  Another crucial part of the grant is centered around training students to do fieldwork. This includes undergraduate and graduate students in the United States, as well as students abroad. Most recently, Isaac Warren and I presented our work on (apparent) noun-complement clauses in Avatime at NELS.

• I am a co-investigator on another NSF grant w/ Zuzanna Fuchs (PI) and Justine Sikuku (Co-I). The project will ultimately involve carrying out eye-tracking studies in Kenya on Lubukusu, but the earlier parts in the project are centered around building in experimental controls despite the language being unwritten.  Stay tuned, as there is plenty yet to come.  In the meantime, check out this database (a huge thanks to Catherine Pan for her work as our RA).

• We (Gary Thoms and Gulnar Eziz) have recently submitted a new paper to the Journal of East Asian Languages on case alternations in Uyghur relative clauses. We've even snuck some Turkish into the mix! Let me know if you would like to see an early copy!