Here are some projects I’ve worked on which aren’t being actively updated anymore, but where it’s still convenient to have the links in one place somewhere, at least those that haven’t succumbed to link rot!
Other resources
I’ve contributed to the group blog Strong Language, a sweary blog about swearing. I also wrote a Medium post about how to get started with Twitter.
On All Things Linguistic, I run a series of interviews and posts about people with linguistics backgrounds who have gone on to work outside academia: the linguistics jobs series.
I also ran a series with advice for protolinguists: high school students who would like to learn more about linguistics. Selected posts:
- Protolinguist Master Post
- Protolinguistics: 6 ways to do linguistics in high school
- Protolinguist resources: Teaching yourself phonetics/phonology
- Protolinguist resources: Teaching yourself morphology
- Protolinguist resources: Teaching yourself syntax
- Protolinguist resources: Teaching yourself semantics
- Protolinguist resources: Teaching yourself corpus linguistics
- Protolinguist resources: Teaching yourself experimental linguistics
- Protolinguist resources: Teaching yourself descriptive grammar
- Protolinguist resources: Teaching yourself philosophy of language and linguistic anthropology
General teaching resources from my blog:
- How to draw syntax trees (8-part series)
- How to explain linguistics to your friends and family
- On writing an IB extended essay in linguistics (& follow-up)
- What is language? 8 myths about language and linguistics
- 28 tips for doing better in your Intro Linguistics course
- Why Learn Semantics: Comebacks to annoying people
- Practising syntax trees using cards & string
- Teaching phonetics with lollipops and with fire
- Matrix Clauses
- Phonological Natural Classes and Set Theory
- Say Aaaaahh: Fun with vowels
- IPA Bingo
- How to make your own IPA Scrabble set
- What is LaTeX and why do linguists love it? (includes starter documents to download and edit)
In July 2014, I taught two linguistics courses to 9-14 year olds at Explorations, a Montreal summer day camp for nerdy kids. I wrote summary blog posts each week with the activities we did and some reflections on the experience, as a resource for future linguistics activities with high schoolers and younger.
- How Does Language Work? week 1
- How Does Language Work? week 2
- Make Your Own Language, week 3
- Make Your Own Language, week 4
The #lingwiki editathons build from a crowdsourced linguistics project that I organized in summer 2014 to improve the linguistics-explaining resources online. The three organizational posts with the plans and summary of the series are here:
- Crowdsourced Linguistics Part 1: What linguistics terms do you still have trouble with?
- Crowdsourced Linguistics Part 2: What linguistics terms can you help explain?
- Crowdsourced Linguistics Part 3: Summary and future editathons
I’d also like to highlight a few of the more in-depth explanations that people wrote:
In April 2014, I taught an introduction to linguistics course with particular focus on Mi’gmaq as part of the Bachelor of Community Studies (BACS) joint program between Cape Breton University and Listuguj First Nation. The course was a month-long intensive course equivalent to a single semester (3 credit) course. I did not summarize the course online, but do see a series of blog posts I did at migmaq.org as an introduction to Algonquianist terminology especially with respect to Mi’gmaq (parts one, two, three, four and five). See also my MA thesis and wiki.migmaq.org for more on the grammar of Mi’gmaq.
MA Research
McCulloch, Gretchen. 2014. Modal Indefinites in Mi’gmaq: What do we mean by ‘Random’? Presented at the Semantics of Underrepresented Languages of the Americas (SULA 8), Vancouver, BC.
McCulloch, Gretchen. 2014. Mi’gmaq -asi as a Middle Voice Head. Presented at the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
McCulloch, Gretchen. 2013. Verb Stem Composition in Mi’gmaq. MA Thesis, McGill University.
McCulloch, Gretchen. 2013. Mi’gmaq –asi as a middle voice marker. Presented at the 45th Algonquian Conference, Ottawa, ON.
McCulloch, Gretchen. 2013. Finals in Mi’gmaq. Poster at the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) annual meeting, Victoria, BC.
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