Amélia Reis Silva
Position: PhD Candidate
Office Location: Totem Field Studios
Email: ngreire@interchange.ubc.ca

Mailing Address:
UBC Department of Linguistics
2613 West Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
V6T 1Z4

Research Interests

My research interests are in semantics, syntax, and morphology, and the relationship between the three.

Current Research

Currently, I am focusing on the Expression of Modality in Blackfoot (Algonquian).

Previous Research

For the past 12 years I have been working with Mebengokre, an Amazonian language. (Under construction!)

Selected Publications

*To appear: Pre-aspiration and vowel devoicing in Blackfoot. In Proceedings of 13th Workshop on Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas.

*To appear: (with Jennifer Glougie) Future Expressions in Blackfoot and St'at'imcets. In Proceedings of 12th Workshop on Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas.

*2007: (with Lisa Matthewson) `An instantaneous present tense in Blackfoot. In UMOP 35: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on the Semantics of under-represented languages in the Americas.

*2007: (with Jennifer Glougie) The form and function of two futures in Blackfoot and St’át’imcets. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on the Semantics of under-represented languages in the Americas.

Selected Presentations

*March 2008: `Pre-aspiration and vowel devoicing in Blackfoot'. Presented at Workshop on Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas 13, University

*May 2007: (with Lisa Matthewson) `An instantaneous present tense in Blackfoot'. Presented at Semantics of under-represented languages in the Americas 4, USP, São Paulo, Brazil.

*May 2007: (with Jennifer Glougie) `The form and function of two futures in Blackfoot and St’át’imcets'. Semantics of under-represented languages in the Americas 4. USP, São Paulo, Brazil.

*March 2007: (with Jennifer Glougie) `Future Expressions in Blackfoot and St'at'imcets'. POSTER presented at Workshop on Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas 12, University of Lethbridge, Alberta.

*October 2006: `On preaspiration in Blackfoot'. Presented at 38th Algonquian Conference University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia.

*October 2006: `Tense in Blackfoot'. POSTER presented at the 38th Algonquian Conference University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia.

*November 2006: `Two futures in Blackfoot'. Presented at Workshop on Cross-linguistic semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality. Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

*August 2006: `On the future in Blackfoot'. GLOW Summer School. Stuttgart, Germany.

*February 2006: `Aspect and Split ergativity in Mebengokre’. 22nd NorthWest Linguistics Conference SFU.