Papers
2023. Sounds & Writing [slides] [handout]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] [poster]
With Jonathan Geary, presented at WCCFL 39.
2015. Rhyming grammars and Celtic phonology [pdf] [dspace]
My dissertation, on rhyme and alliteration in medieval Irish, Welsh, and Norse poetry.
2015. Syntactically unjustified morphs and other strategies for hiatus resolution in Irish prepositions [handout]
Handout from the Old World Conference in Phonology.
2014. Poetic Inversions in Longfellow's Evangeline [pdf]
An analysis based in Richards' Uttering Trees Theory (now Contiguity Theory) of syntactic inversions in poetry.
2014. The (Dis)use of the syllable in the rhymes of Dafydd ap Gwilym [handout]
Handout from the Harvard Celtic Colloquium.
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.