Publications

 

Peer Reviewed


  1. Coon, Jessica. to appear. ‘Rethinking Split Ergativity in Chol.’ To appear in International Journal of American Linguistics. (internet problems, please email me for most recent draft)

  2. Coon, Jessica. to appear. ‘VOS as Predicate Fronting in Chol.’ To appear in Lingua. (internet problems, please email me for most recent draft)

  3. Coon, Jessica. 2009. ‘Comments on Austronesian Nominalism: A Mayan Perspective.’ Theoretical Linguistics 35,1: 73–93.

  4. Gallagher, Gillian and Jessica Coon. 2009. ‘Distinguishing Total and Partial Identity: Evidence from Chol.Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 27, 3: 545.

  5. Coon, Jessica. 2009. ‘Interrogative Possessors and the Problem with Pied-piping in Chol.’ Linguistic Inquiry 40, 1: 165–175.


In Proceedings


  1. Coon, Jessica. to appear. ‘A Biclausal Analysis of Aspect Based Split Ergativity.’ To appear in WSCLA 2009: Proceedings of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas, ed. Heather Bliss and Amelia Reis Silva. Vancouver, BC: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.

  2. Coon, Jessica and Gillian Gallagher. 2009. ‘Similarity and Correspondence in Chol Roots.’ In NELS 28: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, ed. Anisa Schardl, Martin Walkow, and Muhammad Abdurrahman, 203–216. Amherst, MA: GLSA.

  3. Coon, Jessica and Andrés Salanova. 2009. ‘Nominalization and Predicate Fronting: Two Sources of Ergativity.’ In PLC 32: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, ed. Laurel MacKensie, 45–54. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 15.1.

  4. Coon, Jessica and Omer Preminger. 2009 ‘Positional Roots and Case Absorption.’ In New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics, ed. Heriberto Avelino, Jessica Coon, and Elisabeth Norcliffe, 35–58. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 59.

  5. Coon, Jessica. 2008. ‘When Ergative = Genitive: Nominals and Split Ergativity.’ In WCCFL 27: Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop, 99–107. Somerville MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

  6. Coon, Jessica. 2006. ‘Existentials and Negation in Chol Mayan.’ In CamLing 4: Proceedings of the Fourth University of Cambridge Conference in Language Research, ed. Charles Chang, Esuna Dugarova, Irene Theodoropoulou, Elina Vilar Beltrán, and Edward Wilford, 51–58. Cambridge: Cambridge Institute of Language Research.

  7. Coon, Jessica. 2004. ‘Nominal constructions and split-ergativity in Chol Mayan.’ In BLS 30: Proceedings of the 30th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, ed. Marc Ettlinger, Nicholas Fleischer, and Mischa Park-Doob, 34–45. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.