Jessica Coon

Jessica Coon is an Associate Professor of linguistics at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in Syntax and Indigenous Languages.[1] She was the linguistics expert consultant for the 2016 film Arrival.[2][3]

Coon works on ergativity, split-ergativity, case and agreement, nominalization, field methodology, and collaborative language work in Ch'ol and Chuj (Mayan) and Mi'gmaq (Algonquian).[4] She received her PhD from MIT in 2010 with a dissertation on ergativity in the Ch'ol language.[5]

Key publications

References

  1. ↑ "25 Canada Research Chairs for McGill : McGill Reporter". publications.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  2. ↑ "CTV National News: The McGill prof who taught filmmakers to speak alien". CTVNews. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  3. ↑ "The Scientist Who Helped Amy Adams Talk to Aliens in "Arrival" - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus". Nautilus. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  4. ↑ "Jessica Coon". jessica.lingspace.org. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  5. ↑ (MITWPL), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. "Complementation in Chol (Mayan): A Theory of Split Ergativity | MITWPL". mitwpl.mit.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  6. ↑ Coon, Jessica (2013). Aspects of Split Ergativity. Oxford University Press.

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