Aron Finholt
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​I am a 3rd year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Kansas.  My research focuses on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and morphology. I explore these domains through a combination of fieldwork and experimental methods, focusing particularly on understudied languages of the Bantu language family of Central and East Africa.

One area of particular interest to me is the morphosyntactic expression and semantic function of complementizers. Some of the questions my current work hopes to address include: What are the different types of meanings complementizers may express? How do complementizers come to encode these meanings? Why do we find such strong variation in the expression and function of (cognate) complementizers in closely-related languages?   

I am also a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow at the Kansas African Studies Center. I am advised by John Gluckman.  ​


TALKS/POSTERS
2022 "On the Semantic Contribution of Complementizers: Data from Mashi", at the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of California San Diego

2022 (with John Gluckman, Stephanie Born, Jack Foster and Lucy Whittington) "Non-verbal Predication in Kihavu", at 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of California San Diego

2022 "On Complementizer Choice in Swahili", at 44th Annual Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), University of Tübingen (handout)

2022 "States and Possession in Mashi: Novel Evidence for Decomposing HAVE", at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Washington D.C.

2022 (with John Gluckman) "Complementizer Choice and Relative Belief: On Swahili Complementizer Variation", at Linguistics Society of America, Washington D.C. (poster)

2021 "A Parallelism between be and have: Evidence from Mashi for the decomposition of have", Monday Linguistics Colloquia Series, University of Florida

2021 "
Decomposing HAVE: Evidence from Possessive Predication in Mashi", at 52nd meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Rutgers University

2021 "Evidence and Relative Belief: Swahili Complementizer Variation" at NWAV 49, University of Texas

2021 (with John Gluckman) "Reason and Result in Kinyamulenge" at TripleA 8, National University of Singapore (recording) and (handout)

2021 "A New Perspective on Swahili's Dual-Complementizer System" at NWLC 37, University of British Columbia

2021 (with John Gluckman) "A Corpus Study of Swahili's Dual-Complementizer System", at ACAL 51/52, University of Florida (handout)

2019 "The Scope of Negation In Romance", at Scholars Week, Western Washington University

2019 (with Grace deMeurisse) "Western Talks", at Scholars Week, Western Washington University


PAPERS
In prep (with John Gluckman) "Causal-clauses in Bantu languages, with special reference to Kinyamulenge". Causal clauses and their diachronic suitability for processes of language change, special edition of Linguistics Vanguard 

Under review (with John Gluckman) "A corpus analysis of Swahili's dual complementizers" 


PROCEEDINGS
Under review (with John Gluckman) "A New Perspective on Swahili's Dual-Complementizer System" in Proceedings of ACAL 51/52
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​M.A. THESIS

2021 "Attitude Reports and Relative Belief: A New Perspective on the Swahili Dual-Complementizer System", University of Kansas

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