Gretchen Kern

Papers

2023. Sounds & Writing [slides available by request]
     Presented at the 1st Annual Yokuts, Miwok, and Mono Conference, Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians, Coarsegold, CA.

2022. Word order variation in interrogative sentences in Northwest Sahaptin texts [pdf]
     With Jonathan Geary, presented at WAIL 24.

2021. Developing teaching materials for the Umatilla Sahaptin language: Balancing insights from linguistic theory with learners’ communicative needs [abstract]
     With Jonathan Geary, presented at WCCFL 39.

2015. Rhyming grammars and Celtic phonology [dspace]
     My dissertation, on rhyme and alliteration in medieval Irish, Welsh, and Norse poetry.

2014. Poetic Inversions in Longfellow's Evangeline [pdf]
     An analysis based in Richards' Uttering Trees Theory (now Contiguity Theory) of syntactic inversions in poetry.

2013. Old Irish Pronouns, Agreement and Disagreement [pdf]
     Handout from the Harvard Celtic Colloquium.

2012. Aspects of Old and Middle Irish Rhyme [pdf]
     Handout from the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. A more complete version is a chapter in my dissertation.

2010. On Secondary Stress in Old Irish [pdf]
     My MA thesis from the University of Wisconsin.

2009. Ogam Inscriptions of Ireland [pdf]
     Subtitle: "A Relative Chronology Based on Linguistic Evidence." My MA thesis from Aberystwyth University. It is mostly unreadable without "Celtic Inscriptions of Britain" (Patrick Sims-Williams) as a companion, but the tables in the back might be of use to someone.