Meagan Louie
Position: 4th year Ph.D Student
Email: meagan dot louie at gmail dot com

Mailing Address:
2613 West Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
V6T 1Z4

Interests:

• Fieldwork (Blackfoot)
• Formal semantics and morphosyntax (events, event structure, situations, aspect, temporality, modality, conditionals, argument structure), number/plurality/distributivity, discourse particles

Member of:

• Blackfoot Reading Group
• Cross-linguistic Pragmatics Research Group

Education:

2007-2008 M.A. Linguistics, University of Toronto

M.A. Thesis: "Atemporal Anchoring of Individuals, Events and Sub- Events in Blackfoot."

2003-2007 B.A. Honours Linguistics, University of British Columbia

Honours Thesis: "Blackfoot's Non-affirmative Endings: Topical NPI's with existential wide-scope."

Publications:

Louie, Meagan. To Appear. "Distributing with Blackfoot's Loneliest Number". Proceedings of SULA 6.

Louie, Meagan. 2011.“Mapping Opposite Truth-Values: A Semantics for Blackfoot noohk-.” Proceedings for the Workshop and the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 16. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics (UBCWPL)31:105-120. [LINK]

Louie, Meagan. 2011. "Deriving Full Repetition in Blackfoot with Additive Focus." Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 20). CLC Publications. pp. 1-18.[LINK]

Louie, Meagan. 2010.“Variations in Vowel Devoicing in Northern Paiute.” Proceedings for the Workshop and the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 15. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics (UBCWPL)29:165-177. [LINK]

Davis, Henry, Meagan Louie, Lisa Matthewson, Ileana Paul, Tyler Peterson and Amelia Reis-Silva. To Appear. "Perfective Aspect and Actuality Entailments: A Cross-Linguistic Approach". Proceedings of SULA 5. Amazon Listing

Gilmour, Drew, Ashleigh Gonzales and Meagan Louie. 2010. "Evidentials and Parasitic Irony: Activating the Illocutionary-Proposition Distinction." In R.-M. Déchaine, T. Peterson, U. Sauerland, and M. Schenner (eds.), Evidence from Evidentiality, University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics (UBCWPL)28:1-13. [LINK]

Presentations:

2012

"A Case Study in Blackfoot Temporal Structure: The Aspectual marker omaa-" Invited Talk presented at WSCLA 17, The University of Chicago, March 6-8th, 2012. [PPT slides(PDF)]

"The Problem with No-Nonsense Elicitation Plans (for semantic fieldwork)" Poster presented at the 2012 LSA. [Poster(PDF)]

2011

"Achieving 'Exceeds Expectations': The Blackfoot aspectual morpheme omaa-" UBC Linguistics Research Seminar, September 28th, 2011.

Louie, Meagan. "Distributing with 'one' in Blackfoot." Paper presented at SULA 6, University of Manchester, May 5th-7th, 2011. [Handout]

Louie, Meagan. "Mapping Opposite Truth-Values: A Semantics for Blackfoot noohk-." Paper presented at WSCLA 16, UMass Amherst, Feb. 11-13th, 2011. [Handout], [Manuscript]

2010

Louie, Meagan. "Deriving Full Repetition in Blackfoot with Additive Focus." Poster presented at SALT 20, UBC & SFU, April 29-May 1st.

Louie, Meagan. “Variations in Vowel Devoicing in Northern Paiute.” Paper presented for the Workshop and the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 15, The University of Ottawa, February 5th-7th

2009

Louie, Meagan. "Syntactic Distinctions Among Preverbs: The 'means' linker iiht-/ooht-". Paper presented at the 41st Algonquian Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, October 29th-November 1st 2009.

Davis, Henry, Meagan Louie, Lisa Matthewson, Ileana Paul, Tyler Peterson and Amelia Reis-Silva. 2009. "Lexical Perfectivity and Actuality Entailments: A Cross-Linguistic Approach". Paper presented at Chronos 9, Université Paris-Diderot - Paris 7 and University of Chicago Centre in Paris, September 2-5 2009.

Davis, Henry, Meagan Louie, Lisa Matthewson, Ileana Paul, Tyler Peterson and Amelia Reis-Silva. 2009. "Perfective Aspect and Actuality Entailments: A Cross-Linguistic Approach". Paper presented at the conferences for the Semantics of the Understudied Language of the Americas (SULA) 5, Massachussets Institute of Technology, May 15-17 2009.

2008

Louie, Meagan. 2008. “On the Lack of Temporal Anchoring in Blackfoot and its Consequences for NPIs Cross-linguistically”, Paper presented at the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 13, Queens University, March 28th, 2008.

2007

Louie, Meagan. 2007. "Blackfoot's Non-affirmative Endings: Semantically Anomalous NPIs, Paper presented at the 39th Algonquian Conference, York University, October 19th, 2007.

2006

Louie, Meagan. 2006. "Analyzing Blackfoot's Non-Affirmative Endings as NPIs (and what it says about Negation in Blackfoot)", Poster presentation at the 38th Algonquian Conference, UBC, October 2006.