Sonja Thoma
Position: Ph.D. candidate
Email: sonja.thoma@gmail.com

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

Research Interests

Syntax; Syntax-Semantics, Syntax-Pragmatics Interface; German, Bavarian German dialects; Discourse Particles

Education

Western Washington University Bellingham, WA, USA B.A. Linguistics and Spanish Apr. 2002-Dec. 2004

Whatcom Community College Bellingham, WA, USA Jun. 2001-Mar. 2002

Publications

(2009) To p or to ¬p-The Bavarian Particle fei as Polarity Discourse Particle. in Sprache und Datenverarbeitung-International Journal for Language Data Processing 33:139-152.

(2009) St’át’imcets independent pronouns-The invisible cleft. in Proceedings of the 23rd Northwest Linguistics Conference. Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle of the University of Victoria. Victoria. 109-123.

(2008) p or to ¬p; approaching the semantics and pragmatics of the Bavarian particle fei. in Moran, Steven Darren S. Tanner and Michael Scanlon (eds.) Proceedings of the 24th Northwest Linguistics Conference. UW Working Papers in Linguistics. Seattle. 97-109.

(2008) Ti Lhápa Ts’úqwaz’ Láti7 Q’íl’qa: The Forgotten Fish on the Sofa. in L. Matthewson, C. Christodolou and M. Oberg (eds.), Wenácw Ti7: True Stories by a St’át’imc Elder, UBCWPL, Vancouver,108-114.