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Will Oxford Curriculum vitae May 30, 2019

CONTACT INFORMATION

Address Department of University of Manitoba 545 Fletcher Argue Building 15 Chancellor’ Circle Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V5 Phone 204-474-9623 Email [email protected] Website http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/∼oxfordwr

EDUCATION

2014 PhD, University of (Linguistics) Thesis: Microparameters of : A diachronic perspective on Algonquian 2007 MA, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Linguistics) Thesis: Towards a grammar of Innu-aimun particles 2005 BA, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Linguistics and French) 2005 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, MIT/Harvard

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2019– Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba 2014–19 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba 2013–14 Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba

PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles 2018 Oxford, Will. 2018. Inverse marking and Multiple Agree in Algonquin: Complementar- ity and variability. Natural and Linguistic Theory. (Published online; volume number to follow.) 2017 Oxford, Will. 2017. The Activity Condition as a microparameter. Linguistic Inquiry 48: 711–722. Will Oxford • 2 of 18

2017 Oxford, Will. 2017. Variation and change in the Degree Phrase. Linguistic Variation 17: 98–110. 2015 Oxford, Will. 2015. Patterns of in phonological change: Evidence from Algo- nquian vowel systems. Language 91: 308–357. under Lochbihler, Bethany, Will Oxford, and Nicholas Welch. The person- connection: revision Evidence from Algonquian and Dene. Revisions requested by Linguistic Inquiry.

Books and edited volumes in prep Ghomeshi, Jila, and Will Oxford, eds. Special double issue of Canadian Journal of Lin- guistics on . 2008 Oxford, Will. 2008. A grammatical study of Innu-aimun particles. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics Memoir 20. Winnipeg: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics.

Book chapters in prep Oxford, Will. Algonquian. Invited submission to Handbook of and Linguis- tics of North America, ed. by Carmen Jany, Marianne Mithun, and Keren Rice. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. in press Oxford, Will. When direct and inverse are asymmetrical. To appear in Papers of the 49th Algonquian Conference, ed. by Monica Macaulay and Margaret Noodin. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. in press Oxford, Will. Algonquian. Invited submission to Routledge handbook of North Ameri- can languages, ed. by Daniel Siddiqi, Michael Barrie, Carrie Gillon, Jason Haugen, and Eric Mathieu. 2018 Dresher, B. Elan, Christopher Harvey, and Will Oxford. 2018. Contrastive hi- erarchies as a new lens on typology. In Phonological typology, ed. by Larry M. Hyman and Frans Plank, 273–311. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2017 Bliss, Heather, and Will Oxford. 2017. Patterns of syncretism in nominal paradigms: A pan-Algonquian perspective. In Papers of the 46th Algonquian Conference, ed. by Monica Macaulay and Margaret Noodin, 1–18. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. A survey of locative expressions in Innu-aimun. In Papers of the 42nd Algonquian Conference, ed. by J. Randolph Valentine and Monica Macaulay, 181– 201. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 2013 Oxford, Will. 2013. Verb on Innu-aimun : Evidence for the na- ture of Algonquian wh-questions. In Papers of the 41st Algonquian Conference, ed. by Karl S. Hele and J. Randolph Valentine, 208–229. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. Will Oxford • 3 of 18

2008 Oxford, Will. 2008. Towards a grammar of Innu-aimun particles. In Papers of the 39th Algonquian Conference, ed. by Karl S. Hele and Regna Darnell, 531–556. London, : University of Western Ontario.

Proceedings of refereed conferences 2018 Tollan, Rebecca, and Will Oxford. 2018. -less unergatives: Evidence from Algo- nquian. In Proceedings of the 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WC- CFL 35), ed. by Wm. G. Bennett, Lindsay Hracs, and Dennis Ryan Storoshenko, 399–408. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 2017 Oxford, Will. 2017. Inverse marking as impoverishment. In Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 34), ed. by Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Miranda K. McCarvel, and Edward J. Rubin, 413–422. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 2016 Bliss, Heather, and Will Oxford. 2016. A microparametric approach to syncretisms in nominal inflection. In Proceedings of the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 33), ed. by Kyeong-min Kim et al., 67–76. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 2015 Oxford, Will. 2015. Probe competition as a source of ergative person splits. In NELS 45: Proceedings of the 45th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, volume 2, ed. by Thuy Bui and Deniz Özyildiz, 213–222. Amherst, MA: GLSA. 2014 Dresher, B. Elan, Christopher Harvey, and Will Oxford. 2014. Contrast shift as a type of diachronic change. In NELS 43: Proceedings of the 43rd annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, volume 1, ed. by Hsin-Lun Huang, Ethan Poole, and Amanda Rysling, 103–116. Amherst, MA: GLSA. 2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. Multiple instances of agreement in the clausal spine: Evidence from Algonquian. In Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WC- CFL 31), ed. by Robert E. Santana-LaBarge, 335–343. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 2013 Oxford, Will. 2013. A contrast-based model of merger. In NELS 42: Proceedings of the 42nd annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, volume 2, ed. by Stefan Keine and Shayne Sloggett, 95–106. Amherst, MA: GLSA.

Other conference proceedings to Oxford, Will. What’s the inverse of an inverse? Transitive constructions in Algonquian appear and Austronesian. To appear in Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. to Oxford, Will. Fission in Algonquian and the status of morphological templates. To appear appear in Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 23), ed. by Daniel Reisinger. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics. 2017 Oxford, Will. 2017. Proximate DP, KP: Balancing the morphosyntax and prag- matics of obviation. In Proceedings of the 2017 annual conference of the Canadian Lin- Will Oxford • 4 of 18

guistic Association, ed. by Andrew Monti. Published online at http://cla-acl.ca/ actes-2017-proceedings/. 2012 Oxford, Will. 2012. “Contrast shift” in the . In Phonology in the 21st Century: In Honour of Glyne Piggott, ed. by J. Loughran and A. McKillen. Proceedings of the 2011 Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MOT 2011). McGill Work- ing Papers in Linguistics 22.1. Published online at https://www.mcgill.ca/mcgwpl/ archives/volume-221-2012. 2011 Oxford, Will. 2011. The of Innu-aimun locatives. In Proceedings of the 16th Work- shop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 16), ed. by Alexis Black and Meagan Louie, 135–150. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics 31. 2010 Oxford, Will. 2010. Nominal predication and verb morphology in Innu-aimun. In Pro- ceedings of the 15th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Amer- icas (WSCLA 15), ed. by Beth Rogers and Anita Szakay, 30–46. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics 29. 2010 Oxford, Will. 2010. Same, other, and different: A first look at the microsyntax of identity adjectives. In Proceedings of the 2010 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Associ- ation, ed. by Melinda Heijl. Published online at http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/ ~cla-acl/actes2010/actes2010.html.

Book reviews 2016 Oxford, Will. 2016. Review of The clause-typing system of Plains Cree: Anaphoricity, in- dexicality, and contrast, by Clare Cook. Anthropological Linguistics 58: 327–329.

Working papers 2017 Oxford, Will. 2017. Algonquian grammar myths. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 39 (special issue on Indigenous languages), ed. by Ruth Maddeaux. Published online at http://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/28496. 2016 Oxford, Will. 2016. From head-final to head-initial in Algonquian: Evidence and im- plications. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 37 (special alumni issue), ed. by Julie Doner et al. Published online at http://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ twpl/issue/view/1788. 2016 Oxford, Will. 2016. Menominee vowel harmony revisited: A height-based underspeci- fication account. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 35, ed. by Joanna Chociej et al. Published online at http://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/issue/ view/1736. 2008 Oxford, Will. 2008. A analysis of direct doubling. In Memorial University of Newfoundland Occasional Student Papers in Linguistics 1, ed. by Carla Dunphy and Will Oxford, 19–35. St. John’s, NL: Department of Linguistics, Memorial University. Will Oxford • 5 of 18

2008 Dunphy, Carla, and Will Oxford, eds. 2008. Memorial University of Newfoundland Occa- sional Student Papers in Linguistics, volume 1. St. John’s, NL: Department of Linguistics, Memorial University.

Community-oriented publications 2013 Mailhot, José, and Marguerite MacKenzie, with the assistance of Will Oxford. 2013. Innu- English Dictionary and English-Innu Dictionary. Sheshatshiu, Labrador: Mamu Tshishku- tamashutau Innu Education. 2012 Mailhot, José, and Marguerite MacKenzie, with the assistance of Will Oxford. 2012. Dic- tionnaire Innu-français. Sept-Iles, Quebec: Institut Tshakapesh. 2008 MacKenzie, Marguerite, Will Oxford, and Laurel Anne Hasler. 2008. Sheshatshiu-atshi- tashuna [Sheshatshiu numbers] and Mushuau-atshitashuna [Mushuau numbers]. CURA Project, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL.

Online resources 2017–19 Oxford, Will (project leader) and Graham Still (web developer). Database of Algonquian language structures. Searchable web database of the sound systems and grammatical sys- tems of the Algonquian languages. http://alglang.net.

GRANTS

Research grants (as principal investigator) 2016–18 Structure and change in direct-inverse systems. SSHRC Insight Development Grant 430- 2016-00680. $37,999. With collaborator Heather Bliss (University of Victoria). 2014–15 Unifying data and theory in comparative Algonquian linguistics. University Research Grants Program (URGP), University of Manitoba. $7492. 2013–15 Resources for Algonquian linguistic research. University of Manitoba start-up grant. $15,000. 2006 Fieldwork research grant, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial Univer- sity. $4,400. 2006 Fieldwork research grant, J. R. Smallwood Foundation for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Memorial University. $2,880. 2006 Fieldwork research grant, Northern Scientific Training Program, Government of Canada. $2,800.

Research grants (as collaborator) 2014–19 A digital infrastructure to sustain Algonquian Languages: Dictionaries and linguistic atlas. SSHRC Insight Grant. Principal investigator Marie-Odile Junker, Carleton University. Will Oxford • 6 of 18

Conference hosting grants 2017 Manitoba Workshop on Person. Canadian Linguistic Association event support. 2017 Manitoba Workshop on Person. Conference Sponsorship Program, Vice-President Re- search and International, University of Manitoba. 2017 Manitoba Workshop on Person. Arts Endowment Fund, University of Manitoba. 2015 47th Algonquian Conference. Conference Sponsorship Program, Vice-President Research and International, University of Manitoba. 2015 47th Algonquian Conference. Arts Endowment Fund, University of Manitoba. 2011 NELS 42: The 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences. (Member of application committee; official ap- plicant Diane Massam.)

AWARDS AND HONOURS

2012–13 Vivienne Poy Chancellor’s Fellowship, 2009–12 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC 2007 University Medal for Excellence in a Thesis-Based Master’sProgram, Memorial University 2007 Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University 2006 A. G. Hatcher Memorial Scholarship, Memorial University 2006 Institute of Social and Economic Research Master Fellowship, Memorial University 2005 Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC 2005 F. A. Aldrich Graduate Fellowship, Memorial University 2005 LSA Institute Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America

PRESENTATIONS

Invited presentations 2018 Oxford, Will. 2018. 50 ways to be a . Keynote presentation, 50th anniversary con- ference, Department of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, November 30. 2017 Oxford, Will. 2017. Consequences of caselessness. Keynote presentation, Sixth annual Dog Days Syntax/Morphology/Semantics Workshop, University of Toronto, August 9. 2016 Oxford, Will. 2016. Subject, object, or none of the above? Origins of direct-inverse align- ment in Algonquian. University of Calgary LLC Speaker Series, February 5. Will Oxford • 7 of 18

2015 Oxford, Will. 2015. Agreement interactions in the Algonquian verb. University of Ottawa, April 15. 2015 Oxford, Will. 2015. What are Algonquian theme signs and how do vary? University of Ottawa, April 15. 2014 Oxford, Will. 2015. Intralanguage variation in multiple person agreement. McGill Univer- sity Agreement Reading Group, March 14. 2013 Oxford, Will. 2013. Integrating theory and philology in Algonquian linguistics. University of Manitoba, March 4. 2011 Oxford, Will. 2011. Patterns of contrast in Algonquian vowel systems. Memorial University, September 29.

Conference presentations (2019) Still, Graham, and Will Oxford. 2019. An interactive online database of Algonquian lan- guage structures. Paper to be presented at Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS) 2019, Winnipeg, June 6–8. (2019) Oxford, Will. 2019. The Algonquian inverse: Syntax or morphology? Paper to be presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of British Columbia, June 1. 2019 Oxford, Will. 2019. The Algonquian inverse: What’s voice got to do with ? Paper presented at the 24th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 24), University of Maryland, May 9. 2019 Oxford, Will. 2019. Person-based alignment in Algonquian: Voice, agreement, or both? Paper presented at Person and Perspective: A workshop honoring the work of Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, USC, May 3. 2019 Oxford, Will. 2019. Disentangling the inverse and the obviative. Paper presented at the 5th Prairies Workshop on Language and Linguistics, University of Winnipeg, March 16. 2018 Oxford, Will. 2018. Three Algonquian metasyncretisms. Paper presented at Morphology in Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto (MoMOT) 3, University of Toronto, November 16. 2018 Hoffman, Sarah, and Will Oxford. 2018. Derivational functions of theme signs in Oji-Cree. Paper presented at the 50th Algonquian Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Oc- tober 28. 2018 Oxford, Will. 2018. Subjecthood and the Algonquian spurious passive. Paper presented at the 50th Algonquian Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 28. 2018 Oxford, Will. 2018. Algonquian inverse and Austronesian voice. Poster presented at the Workshop on Polynesian Syntax, University of Toronto, June 9. Will Oxford • 8 of 18

2018 Oxford, Will. 2018. What’s the inverse of an inverse? Transitive constructions in Algo- nquian and Austronesian. Paper presented at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Regina, June 1. 2018 Oxford, Will. 2018. Fission in Algonquian and the status of morphological templates. Paper presented at the 23rd Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 23), University of Ottawa, April 13. 2017 Oxford, Will. 2017. When direct and inverse are asymmetrical. Paper presented at the 49th Algonquian Conference, Université de Montréal, October 29. 2017 Oxford, Will, and Graham Still. 2017. Developing a database of Algonquian language struc- tures. Paper presented at the 49th Algonquian Conference, Université de Montréal, October 28. 2017 Oxford, Will. 2017. Person and the Algonquian inverse. Paper presented at the Manitoba Workshop on Person, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, September 22. 2017 Oxford, Will. 2017. Proximate DP,obviative KP: Balancing the morphosyntax and pragmat- ics of obviation. Paper presented at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Ryerson University, Toronto, May 30. 2017 Tollan, Rebecca, and Will Oxford. 2017. Distinguishing VoiceP subjects and vP subjects in Algonquian. Paper presented at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Ryerson University, Toronto, May 28. 2017 Tollan, Rebecca, and Will Oxford. 2017. Voice-less unergatives: Evidence from Algonquian. Paper presented at the 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 35), University of Calgary, April 29. 2017 Tollan, Rebecca, and Will Oxford. 2017. Algonquian unergative subjects: Voice or v? Paper presented at the 22nd Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 22), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 21. 2017 Oxford, Will, and Eun Bi Won. 2017. A case for Case in Algonquian. Paper presented at the 22nd Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 22), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 22. 2016 Oxford, Will. 2016. Phi-feature dissimilation in the derivation of agreement alternations. Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 47), University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 14. 2016 Oxford, Will. 2016. Deriving agreement asymmetries from pronominal structure. Paper presented at the 5th Toronto Dog Days Syntax/Morphology/Semantics Workshop, Univer- sity of Toronto, August 17. 2016 Oxford, Will. 2016. Inverse marking as impoverishment. Paper presented at the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 34), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, April 29. Will Oxford • 9 of 18

2016 Oxford, Will. 2016. Equidistance and impoverishment: Deriving direct-inverse alignment in Algonquian. Paper presented at the 21st Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 21), Université du Québec à Montréal, April 2. 2016 Makkawi, Amani, and Will Oxford. 2016. Morphological evidence for extraction in Oji- Cree adverbial clauses. Paper presented at the 3rd Prairies Workshop on Language and Lin- guistics, First Nations University, Regina, March 5. 2016 Sahawneh, Meera, and Will Oxford. 2016. triggered by agreement in Arabic and Algonquian. Paper presented at the 3rd Prairies Workshop on Language and Linguistics, First Nations University, Regina, March 5. 2015 Oxford, Will. 2015. Inverse as Elsewhere. Paper presented at the 47th Algonquian Confer- ence, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, October 23. 2015 Lochbihler, Bethany, Will Oxford, and Nicholas Welch. 2015. The person-animacy connec- tion: Evidence from Algonquian and Dene. Paper presented at Gender, Class, and Deter- mination: A Conference on the Nominal Spine, University of Ottawa, September 19. 2015 Lochbihler, Bethany, Will Oxford, and Nicholas Welch. 2015. Inanimacy as personless- ness: Evidence from Dene and Algonquian. Paper presented at the 4th Dog Days of Syntax workshop, University of Toronto, August 12. 2015 Lochbihler, Bethany, and Will Oxford. 2015. The person-animacy connection. Poster pre- sented at Contrast in Syntax, University of Toronto, April 25. 2015 Bliss, Heather, and Will Oxford. 2015. A microparametric approach to syncretisms in nom- inal inflection. Paper presented at the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 33), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, March 27. 2015 Lochbihler, Bethany, and Will Oxford. 2015. The person-animacy connection in Algo- nquian. Paper presented at the 2nd Prairies Workshop on Language and Linguistics, Uni- versity of Manitoba, Winnipeg, March 14. 2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. Probe competition as a source of ergative person splits. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 45), MIT, Cambridge MA, November 1. 2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. Variation in TA theme signs. Paper presented at the 46th Algonquian Conference, Mohegan Tribal Nation, Uncasville CT, October 25. 2014 Bliss, Heather, and Will Oxford. 2014. Patterns of syncretism in nominal paradigms: A pan-Algonquian perspective. Paper presented at the 46th Algonquian Conference, Mohegan Tribal Nation, Uncasville CT, October 25. 2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. The rise and fall of split ergativity in Algonquian. Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Brock University, St. Catharines, May 24. Will Oxford • 10 of 18

2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. A connection between portmanteau agreement and inverse marking in Algonquian. Paper presented at the 19th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 19), Memorial University, St. John’s NL, April 26. 2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. Intralanguage variation in multiple person agreement. Paper presented at the 32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 32), University of South- ern California, Los Angeles, March 9. 2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. Split-ergative agreement in the Algonquian independent order. Paper presented at the 1st Prairies Workshop on Language and Linguistics, Brandon University, March 1. 2013 Oxford, Will. 2013. The Activity Condition as a microparameter. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 44), University of Con- necticut, Storrs CT, October 18. 2013 Dresher, B. Elan, Christopher Harvey, and Will Oxford. 2013. Feature hierarchies and phonological change. Poster presented at the 2013 Annual Conference of the Canadian Lin- guistic Association, University of Victoria, June 2. 2013 Dresher, B. Elan, Christopher Harvey, and Will Oxford. 2013. Synchronic systems in di- achronic change: The role of contrast. Paper presented at the GLOW 36 Workshop on Di- achronic Workings in Phonological Patterns, Lund University, April 6. 2013 Oxford, Will. 2013. Same, different, other, and the diachronic microsyntax of the Degree Phrase. Paper presented at the GLOW 36 Workshop on Syntactic Variation and Change, Lund University, April 2. 2013 Oxford, Will. 2013. Multiple instances of agreement in the clausal spine: Evidence from Al- gonquian. Paper presented at the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WC- CFL 31), Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, February 9. 2012 Oxford, Will. 2012. A theoretical perspective on Proto-Algonquian verb inflection. Paper presented at the 44th Algonquian Conference, University of Chicago, October 27. 2012 Dresher, B. Elan, Christopher Harvey, and Will Oxford. 2012. Contrast shift as a kind of diachronic change. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 43), City University of New York, October 21. 2012 Oxford, Will. 2012. On the contrastive status of vowel length. Paper presented at the 2012 Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MOT 2012), University of Toronto, March 9. 2011 Oxford, Will. 2011. A contrast-based model of merger. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 42), University of Toronto, November 11. 2011 Oxford, Will. 2011. Patterns of contrast in Algonquian vowel systems. Paper presented at the 43rd Algonquian Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 22. Will Oxford • 11 of 18

2011 Oxford, Will. 2011. “Contrast shift” in the Algonquian languages. Poster presented at Phonology in the 21st Century: In Honour of Glyne Piggott (the 2011 Montreal-Ottawa- Toronto Phonology Workshop), McGill University, Montreal, May 7. 2011 Oxford, Will. 2011. The syntax of Innu-aimun locatives. Paper presented at the 16th Work- shop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 16), Uni- versity of Massachusetts Amherst, February 13. 2010 Oxford, Will. 2010. Where is there? Locating locatives in an Algonquian language. Pa- per presented at Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics 14, University of Toronto, December 10. 2010 Oxford, Will. 2010. A survey of locative expressions in Innu-aimun. Paper presented at the 42nd Algonquian Conference, Memorial University, St. John’s NL, October 22. 2010 Oxford, Will. 2010. Same, other, and different: A first look at the syntax of identity adjectives. Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Concordia University, Montreal, May 30. 2010 Oxford, Will. 2010. Adjectives in a language without any: Implications of Innu-aimun ad- nominal particles. Poster presented at the Banff Workshop on Nominal Dependents, Uni- versity of Calgary, Banff AB, May 8. 2010 Oxford, Will. 2010. Nominal predication and verb morphology in Innu-aimun. Paper pre- sented at the 15th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Amer- icas (WSCLA 15), University of Ottawa, February 4. 2009 Oxford, Will. 2009. Verb morphology on Innu-aimun pronouns: Evidence for the nature of Algonquian wh-questions. Paper presented at the 41st Algonquian Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, October 31. 2007 Oxford, Will. 2007. Towards a grammar of Innu-aimun particles. Paper presented at the 39th Algonquian Conference, York University, Toronto, October 20. 2007 Brittain, Julie, Marguerite MacKenzie, Will Oxford, Carrie Dyck, and Yvan Rose. 2007. Pre- liminary observations on acquiring (East) Cree as a first language. Paper presented at the 39th Algonquian Conference, York University, Toronto, October 20.

Local presentations and colloquia 2016 Oxford, Will. 2016. Proximate DP, obviative KP. Toronto Syntax Project, May 12. 2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. Adjectives in a language without adjectives: Lessons from a of English and Cree. New Faculty Colloquium, University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities, November 24. 2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. The rise and fall of split-ergative agreement in Algonquian. Toronto Syntax Project, April 11. Will Oxford • 12 of 18

2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. The rise and fall of split-ergative agreement in Algonquian. LGSA Colloquium Series, University of Manitoba, March 21. 2014 Oxford, Will. 2014. Intralanguage variation in multiple person agreement. LGSA Collo- quium Series, University of Manitoba, February 14. 2013 Oxford, Will. 2013. The Activity Condition as a microparameter. LGSA Colloquium Series, University of Manitoba, October 11. 2013 Oxford, Will. 2013. Proto-Algonquian phonotactics. Toronto Phonetics/Phonology Group, March 22. 2012 Oxford, Will. 2012. Understanding inverse marking in the Algonquian languages: A di- achronic perspective. Toronto Syntax Project, November 9. 2012 Dresher, B. Elan, Christopher Harvey, and Will Oxford. 2012. Contrast shift as a type of diachronic change. CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonetics-Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, July 26. 2012 Oxford, Will. 2012. Proto-Algonquian DP morphology and its conversion into verb inflec- tion. Toronto Syntax Project, June 13. 2011 Oxford, Will. 2011. Menominee vowel harmony revisited: A phonetically natural under- specification account. CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonetics-Phonology Workshop, Univer- sity of Toronto, June 16. 2010 Oxford, Will. 2010. Adjectives that aren’t adjectives: The syntax of same and other. 2nd Annual LGCU Welcome Workshop, University of Toronto, October 29. 2010 Oxford, Will. 2010. Locative expressions in Innu-aimun. Toronto Syntax Project, October 8. 2010 Oxford, Will. 2010. Adjectives in a language without any: Implications of Innu-aimun ad- nominal particles. Toronto Syntax Project, April 16. 2009 Oxford, Will. 2009. Tensed pronouns in an Algonquian language. 1st Annual LGCU Wel- come Workshop, University of Toronto, October 2. Will Oxford • 13 of 18

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses taught (University of Manitoba)

course semesters taught Introduction to Linguistics (LING 1200) Fall 2018–Winter 2019 Fall 2017–Winter 2018 Fall 2015–Winter 2016 Winter 2014 (part B only) Syntax (LING 2200) Fall 2014–Winter 2015 Comparative Linguistics (LING 2640) Fall 2014 Structure of a Non-Indoeuropean Fall 2018–Winter 2019 (Algonquian family) Language (LING 3200/7920) Field Methods (LING 3400/7590) Fall 2015–Winter 2016 (Kapampangan) Fall 2013–Winter 2014 (Oji-Cree) Structure of the Cree Language Summer 2018 (LING 3820/7620, NATV 2320/7220) Summer 2016 Summer 2015 Summer 2014 Algonquian Language Documentation Fall 2017 (LING 3820/7920)

Guest lectures 2016 Cree grammar. LING 1360 , University of Manitoba, instructor Carmela Toews, March 7.

STUDENT SUPERVISION

PhD dissertations supervised 2017 Meera Sahawneh. Probes and pronouns: Variation in agreement and clitic doubling in Arabic. 2016 Zeyad Al-Daher. Pseudo wh-fronting: A diagnosis of wh-constructions in Jordanian Arabic.

PhD generals papers supervised 2019 Yadong Xu. Differential marking does not depend on syntactic height: Evidence from Algonquian. In progress. 2019 Amani Makkawi. Broad subjects in Makkan Arabic. In progress. 2017 Lanlan Li. Kapampangan locative constructions: Synchronic and diachronic connections. Will Oxford • 14 of 18

2017 Chantale Cenerini. The prominence of speech-act participants: A study of diachronic change in Algonquian person agreement. 2015 Meera Sahawneh. VSO or SVSO: Subject-verb agreement in Standard Arabic and Rural Jordanian Arabic. 2015 Zeyad Al-Daher. Wh-fronting without movement or clefting: A diagnosis of illi-interrogatives in Jordanian Arabic.

MA theses supervised 2016 Yadong Xu. Feature competition in Algonquian agreement.

Undergraduate students supervised 2018 Sarah Hoffman. Assessing the productivity of derivational morphology in Oji-Cree. Under- graduate Research Award recipient. 2016 Graham Still. Bits of language: Representing the Algonquian verb in a database. Under- graduate Research Award recipient. 2016 Eun Bi Won. If opposites attract…: Why the -ik and -wâw do not co-occur in West- ern Cree dialects. Undergraduate Research Award recipient. 2015 Graham Still. Coda constraints in Algonquian sound change. Undergraduate Research Award recipient.

Supervisory and examining committee memberships In the Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba

2019 Committee member for MA thesis: Irina Volchok, A synthesis of obviation in Algonquian languages. 2018 Committee member for PhD thesis: Hanadi Azhari, The relation between morphology and the suppression of the in alternations in Arabic. 2016 Examiner for PhD generals paper: Chantale Cenerini, Towards a renewed understanding of Cree-Innu-Naskapi dialectology: An analysis of phonological, lexical and grammatical isoglosses in the Algonquian Linguistic Atlas. 2016 Examiner for PhD generals paper: Hanadi Azhari, Passive voice and related structures: Analysis of ʔan-syncretism in Arabic. 2014 Committee member for MA thesis: Amani Makkawi, Participles as non-verbal predicates. 2014 Committee member for MA thesis: Kathleen Strader, Michif determiner phrases.

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2019 Committee member for PhD thesis: Fiona Wilson, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. In progress. 2019 Committe member for Master’s thesis: Graham Still, Department of Linguistics, Univer- sity of Washington. In progress. 2019 Committee member for Master’sthesis: Zachary Rempel, An Anishinaabe ethno-ornithology of Wabaseemoong Independent Nations. Natural Resources Institute, University of Mani- toba. 2018 External examiner for PhD thesis: Kate Riccomini, The syntax and semantics of the Ojibwe verbal domain. Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa. 2018 External examiner for MA thesis: Stephanie Pile, Monolingual language acquisition in a mixed language community: A case study of Northern East Cree. Department of Linguis- tics, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE

2013–19 Oji-Cree. Taught Field Methods course and conducted subsequent fieldwork with Oji- Cree speaker in Winnipeg. 2015–16 Kapampangan. Taught Field Methods course with Kapampangan speaker in Winnipeg. 2015 Swampy Cree. Conducted fieldwork with Swampy Cree speaker in Winnipeg. 2012 Ojibwe. Audited Field Methods course with Wikwemikong Ojibwe speaker in Toronto, September–December. 2010 Ojibwe. Weekly elicitation sessions with Wikwemikong Ojibwe speaker in Toronto, April– July. 2007 Innu. Participated in Innu legal lexicon workshop, Goose Bay NL, July. 2006 Innu. Daily sessions in Sheshatshiu, NL, with seven speakers over two months, August– October. 2006 Innu. Weekly elicitation sessions with speaker in St. John’s NL, May–June.

SERVICE TO PROFESSION

Reviewing for journals Linguistic Inquiry Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Papers of the Algonquian Conference Canadian Journal of Linguistics Recherches amérindiennes au Québec The Linguistic Review Lingua Will Oxford • 16 of 18

International Journal of American Linguistics Anthropological Linguistics

Reviewing for publishers Routledge Oxford University Press

Reviewing for conferences Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association

Reviewing for grants National Science Foundation

Board membership 2018–21 Member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Language Museum (3-year term).

Conference and workshop organization 2017–21 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Member of program committee (4-year term). 2017 Manitoba Workshop on Person, University of Manitoba. Co-chair, with Jila Ghomeshi. 2015 47th Algonquian Conference, University of Manitoba. Co-chair, with Nicole Rosen. 2015 2nd Prairies Workshop on Language and Linguistics, University of Manitoba. Co-chair, with Jila Ghomeshi and Nicole Rosen. 2010–12 Linguistics Graduate Course Union Welcome Workshop, University of Toronto. Member of organizing committee. 2011 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 42), University of Toronto. Member of organizing committee. 2009 EDGE Teacher Education Conference 2009, Memorial University. Member of organizing committee.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Service within the Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba 2018– Faculty advisor for Linguistic-ISH (Linguistic Integrated Student Hub, undergraduate student association). Will Oxford • 17 of 18

2018– Member of curriculum committee. 2015–18 Linguistics representative at Evening of Excellence recruitment event, 27 October 2015, 25 October 2016, 30 October 2018. 2018 Member of fall-winter sessional hiring committee. 2013– Member of departmental council. 2018 Member of summer sessional hiring committee. 2017–18 Member of undergraduate program revision committee. 2016–17 Gave presentation on graduate school applications to Pre-Speech-Language Pathology/Pre- Audiology Group, 25 October 2016, 23 October 2017. 2016 Created display board and International Phonetic Alphabet bookmarks for departmental outreach at Evening of Excellence and Info Days. 2014–16 Linguistics representative at Info Days recruitment event, 19–20 February 2014, 18 Febru- ary 2015, 17 February 2016. 2015 Gave workshop on the use of the LaTeX typesetting system by linguists, 13 March 2015. 2013–14 Participated in departmental Algonquian Syntax Reading Group.

Service outside the Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba 2015– Member of Nominating Committee, Faculty of Arts. 2019 Member of Linguistics Headship Search Advisory Committee, Faculty of Arts. 2018–19 Member of Search Advisory Committee for position in Indigenous languages, Depart- ment of Native Studies. 2018 Member of Research Committee (leave replacement), Faculty of Arts, July–Dec. 2018. 2016 Senate representative (leave replacement) for Faculty of Arts, Jan.–June 2016.

Service within the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto 2010–13 Chair of departmental library committee. 2010–13 Member of welcoming committee for incoming students. 2009–13 Member of editorial committee for Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

2016 Gave presentation about linguistics and Indigenous languages to a group of Indigenous high school students from Maples Collegiate (with Nicole Rosen), 11 March 2016. Will Oxford • 18 of 18

OTHER PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Membership in professional societies 2010– Canadian Linguistic Association 2012– Linguistic Society of America

Professional experience 2008–09 Grants Facilitation Officer, Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland. 2007–08 Assistant Dictionary Editor, SSHRC CURA Innu dictionary project, Department of Lin- guistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

LANGUAGES

English: native French: proficient German: reading Innu, Ojibwe, Oji-Cree, Cree, Kapampangan: fieldwork