To appear in 2020. The Language of Surprise: Linguistic and Psychological Perspectives on Mirativity. Cambridge University Press (under contract)
2010. Evidence from Evidentials. T. Peterson & U. Sauerland (eds), Vancouver: University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics (UBCWPL), Volume 28.
2005. ICSNL XL: Proceedings of the 40th Int’l. Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, J.C. Brown., M. Kiyota & T. Peterson (eds), Vancouver: UBCWPL
2004. ICSNL XXXIX: Proceedings of the 39th Int’l. Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, J.C. Brown & T. Peterson (eds), Vancouver: UBCWPL
Peterson. T. to appear. “Mirativity in Morphology” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford: OUP
Celle, A., L. Lansari, A. Jugnet, and T. Peterson. 2019. "Interrogatives in surprise contexts in English" In A. Celle and N. Depraz (eds.) Consciousness and Emotion. Benjamins. [alphabetical authors]
Pérez-Leroux, A., T. Peterson, A. Castilla, S. Béjar, D. Massam, and Yves Roberge. 2018. “The Acquisition of Recursive Modification in NPs” Language 94(2)
Peterson T. 2018a. "On the Status of Applicatives in Tsimshianic" in Matthewson, Lisa, Erin Guntly and Michael Rochemont (eds.) Wa7 xweysás i nqwal’utteníha i ucwalmícwa: He loves the people's languages. Essays in honour of Henry Davis. Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics vol. 6.
Peterson, T. 2018b. “Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Gitksan” in Handbook of Evidentiality. A. Aikhenvald (ed.), Oxford: OUP. pp.463-489
Peterson T. 2017. “Problematizing Mirativity” Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15(2), 312--342 (special volume on surprise and mirativity)
Peterson, T. 2017. “Alignments Across Tsimshianic” in Handbook of Ergativity. D. Massam, J. Coon, and L. Travis (eds), Oxford: OUP. pp.1007-1034.
Pérez-Leroux, A., A. Castilla-Earls, S. Béjar, D. Massam, and T. Peterson. 2017. “Strong continuity and children's development of DP recursion” in Recursion across Domains. In T. Roeper, A. Nevins, L. Amaral, M. Maia (eds), Cambridge: CUP
Brown J., T. Peterson, K. Craig. 2016. “Belief, Evidence, and Interactional Meaning in Urama” Oceanic Linguistics. 55(2), 431-448
Peterson, T. 2016. “Mirativity as Surprise: Evidentiality, Information, and Deixis” Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 45:1327--1357; doi: 10.1007/s10936-015-9408-9
Peterson T. 2015. “The Semantics of Grammatical Evidentiality and the Unprepared Mind” Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 13(2), 314-352. doi 10.1075/rcl.13.2.03pet [reprinted in Benjamins Current Topics (2017) vol. 92, pp.51-89]
Peterson, T. 2012. Book review: About the Speaker: Towards a Syntax of Indexicality. Alessandra Giorgi. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2010); 2012. Lingua 122(8)
Brown J. and T. Peterson. 2007. “Grammaticalization And Strategies In Resolving Subject Marking Paradoxes: the Case of Tsimshianic” in Studies In Natural Language And Linguistic Theory. Vol. 72, de Hoop, Helen; de Swart, Peter (eds), Dordrecht: Springer pp. 223-245 [alphabetical co-authors]
Peterson, T. and G. Picanço. 2007. “Dynamic Correspondences: An Object-Oriented Approach to Tracking Sound Reconstructions” in Proceedings of the 9th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, J. Nerbonne, T. M. Ellison and G. Kondrak (eds). ACL. pp. 126-133 oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.115.9738 (peer reviewed proceedings)
Peterson, T. 2006. “Issues of Morphological Ergativity in the Tsimshian Languages: Determiners, Agreement and the Reconstruction of Case” in Case, Valency and Transitivity (Studies in Language Companion Series, 77). L. Kulikov, A. Malchukov, and P. de Swart (eds), Amsterdam: John Benjamins pp. 65-90. DOI: 10.1075/slcs.77.06pet
submitted. "On the Non-literal uses of Grammatical Evidentials"
in prep. “On the Syntactic and Semantic Consequences of Multiple Morphological Causatives in Tsimshianic” [paper based on this handout]
in prep. "Towards an Indigenously Informed Assessment Model for the Vitality of Native American Languages" (with R. Coto)
2015. “Structural Complexity and the Acquisition of Recursive Locative PPs” in Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society [first co-author; with A.T. Pérez-Leroux, A. Castilla-Earls, D. Massam, and S. Béjar]
2012a. “Some Remarks on the Morphosemantics of Multiple Causative Sequences” in Papers from the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
2012b. “The Role of the Ordering Source in Gitksan Epistemic Modals” in Proceedings of Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 6), Amherst: GLSA.
2010. “Perfective aspect and actuality entailments: a cross-linguistic approach” in Proceedings of the Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 5), Amherst, Mass: GLSA Publications. [alphabetical co-authors Henry Davis, Meagan Louie, Lisa Matthewson, Ileana Paul, Amelia Reis Silva].
2010. “Introduction: Evidence from Evidentials” in Evidence from Evidentials. T. Peterson and U. Sauerland (eds), Vancouver: UBCWPL. [alphabetical co-authors: R.M. Déchaine, U. Sauerland]
2010. “On the Semantics of Conjectural Questions” in Evidence from Evidentials. T. Peterson and U. Sauerland (eds), Vancouver: UBCWPL. [alphabetical co-authors: P. Littell, L. Matthewson]
2010. “Examining the Mirative and Non-literal Uses of Evidentials” in Evidence from Evidentials. T. Peterson and U. Sauerland (eds), Vancouver: UBCWPL (paper presented at GLOW 31)
2004a. “The (Re)organization of Semantic Roles in Tsimshian Connectives” in ICSNL XXXIX: Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, J.C. Brown & T. Peterson (eds), Van: UBCWPL pp. 323-340
2008. “Pragmatic Blocking in Gitksan Evidential Expressions” in Proceedings of the 38th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, A. Schardl, M. Walkow, M. Abdurrahman (eds), Amherst, Mass: GLSA Publications
2007a. “Minimality and Syllabification in Kabardian” in Papers from the 39th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, J. Cihlar, A. Franklin, and D. Kaiser (eds), Chicago: University of Chicago pp. 215-235
2007b. “Analytical Database Design: Approaches in the Mapping between Cognate and Semantic Sets” in Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Computational Semantics IWCS-7, J. Goertzen, E. Thijsse, H. Bunt, A. Schiffrin (eds). Tilburg: Tilburg University Dept. of Communication and Information Sciences. pp. 359-361
2004b. “Theoretical issues in the representation of the glottal stop in Blackfoot” in Proceedings from the 7th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, Vol. 15, L. Harper and C. Jany (eds). Santa Barbara: SBPL pp. 106-121
"Evidentials and Questions" Invited colloquium, April 12th, 2019; Keynote Speaker, SDSU Linguistics Student Association Spring Colloquium, San Diego State University
"Cook Islands Māori: Using new technologies to revitalize our language" Invited colloquium, November 30th, 2017; University of the South Pacific (CI Campus), Rarotonga, Cook Islands (with Sally Akevai Nicholas and Rolando Coto)
"Semantic and Pragmatic Fieldwork an the Extended Meanings of Questions" Invited colloquium, May 19th, 2017; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
"Towards a Theoretically-Driven Typology of Epistemic Modality" Invited colloquium, February 27th, 2017; Arizona State University
"Evidentials and Extended Interrogatives" Dept. of Linguistics colloquium, February 14th, 2017; University of Alberta
"Evidentials and Extended Interrogatives" Keynote speaker, 23rd Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCILT 23), November 4, 2016; UTA, Texas
"Explaining Mirativity: the Desiderata" Invited speaker, Mirativity, Emotion and Cognition - Cross-linguistic perspectives, April 1, 2016; University of Paris (Diderot)
“Evidential, Knowledge and Inference: a Perspective from Grammatical Evidentiality” Dept. of Philosophy colloquium; University of Auckland, July 27, 2015, New Zealand
“Surprise as Deixis” Invited talk; Swarthmore College, April 6, 2015
“Mirativity: Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects” Invited speaker, Agence Nationale de la Recherche International Symposium “Surprise in the spontaneity of emotions: a vector of extended cognition”, October 9, 2014; University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7
“Language Documentation and the Anspayaxw Project (ELDP)” Invited co-speaker (with John Wynne), panelist and chair, On Endangered Languages: Indigeneity, Community, and Creative Practice, September 14th, 2013; Museum of Anthropology, UBC.
“Linguistic Frontiers in Our Own Backyard” Plenary speaker, Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCon 2013), March 1, 2013; U of Toronto.
“Evidentiality and the Unprepared Mind” Invited speaker, ConSOLE XXI, January 9, 2013; University of Potsdam.
“(Non)-Parasitic Mirativity and Markedness” Invited talk, November 13th, 2012; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
“The Role of Documenting Semantics and Pragmatics in Understudied Languages” Invited speaker, May 16, 2012; Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures series, Cambridge University.
“The Problem of Variable Modal Force with Fixed Quantification” Invited talk, June 7, 2011; Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf.
“The Ordering Source and Variable Modal Force” Invited speaker, Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 6), May 7, 2011; University of Manchester.
“Explaining Modal Meanings: A View from the Americas” Invited talk, Dept. of Linguistics, February 23, 2009; University of California, San Diego.
“Evidentiality and Pragmatic Blocking in Gitksan" July 12th, 2019; Research Seminar, University of Konstanz, Germany
“Cook Islands Māori: Using new technologies to revitalize our language" December 11th, 2017; Te Kopapa Reo (Te Reo Māori Commission), Rarotonga, Cook Islands (with Sally Akevai Nicholas and Rolando Coto)
“Contemporary Media and Endangered Languages" Language and Linguistics Society, April 7th, 2017; University of Auckland
“Mapping Language Domains and Cultural Knowledge" February 23rd, 2017; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon
“New Tools and Media for Language Documentation" Faculty of Education and Social Work, October 30th, 2016; University of Auckland
“Mirativity: the Empirical and Theoretical Issues" Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, March 17th, 2016; University of Paris -- Diderot 7
“On the Syntactic and Semantic Consequences of Multiple Causative Sequences" School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, August 5th, 2015; University of Auckland
“Pathways for Indigenous Students" Linguistics and Language Society invited colloquium, Aug 4th, 2015; University of Auckland, New Zealand
“Structural Complexity and the Acquisition of Recursive Locative PPs” Speech Sciences Seminar at Tāmaki, August 3rd, 2015; University of Auckland
“Evidential, Knowledge and Inference: a Perspective from Grammatical Evidentiality’ Department of Philosophy colloquium, February 27, 2015; University of Arizona
“Semantic and Pragmatic Fieldwork in Understudied Languages” Department of Linguistics colloquium, November 15, 2013; University of Arizona
“Modality and Evidentiality” University of Auckland Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series, January 13, 2011.
“Conjectural Questions in Gitksan” Leiden University Centre for Linguistics Colloquium, February 26, 2010.
“Ergativity and Modality in the Amazon” Dept. of Linguistics Research Seminar, June 12, 2008; Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.
“Videography in Linguistic Fieldwork” Dept. of Anthropology Research Seminar; November 8, 2006, UBC.
“Practical Fieldwork Methodology for Documenting Amazonian Languages” Dept. of Linguistics Research Seminar, May 12, 2006; Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil
“The Morphosyntax of Head and Phrase Distinctions in Ergative Agreement” (with J.C. Brown) Invited colloquium series; April 30, 2004; California State University, Fresno.
“Métodos Estatisticos e suas Aplicacoes em Fonética e Fonologia” (with G. Picanço) [Statistical Methodsandits Applications in Phonetics and Phonology] Colóquio De Linguas Indigenas Da Pós-Graduacao Em Lingüistica Da UFPA; November 14, 2003; Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.
“The Actor Emphatic Construction from a Semantic Perspective: Evidence from Cook Islands Māori'' 2017 Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand; November 23-24, 2017; University of Auckland, NZ.
“Evidentials and Extended Interrogatives'' Questioning Speech Acts; September 14-16, 2017; University of Konstanz, Germany.
“Indigenous Community-driven Language Surveys and Self-Assessment: A Comparison of Experiences from Arizona and Bolivia” First International Conference on Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages April 19-21, 2017; Universitat de Barcelona; [alphabetical co-authors: Rolando Coto, Luz Jimenez, Tyler Peterson, Ofelia Zepeda]
“Using Popular Media to Teach Native Language” Gila River Indian Community 11th Annual Reservation-wide Teacher In-service Meeting; August 14, 2015; Chandler, AZ
“Children’s acquisition of complex modification” Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 39); November 7-9, 2014; Boston University; [third co-author: Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Anny Castilla, Tyler Peterson, Sujana Béjar, and Diane Massam].
“Structural Complexity and the Acquisition of Recursive Locative PPs” 45th Meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society (NELS 45); October 31 - November 2nd, 2014; MIT; [first co-author: Tyler Peterson, Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Anny Castilla, Sujana Béjar, and Diane Massam].
“The bird on the alligator in the water: Strong continuity and children’s development of NP recursion” Recursion in Brazilian Languages and Beyond; August 7-9, 2013; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [third co-author: Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Anny Castilla, Tyler Peterson, Sujana Béjar, Diane Massam].
“Evidentials and Extended Interrogatives” Sixth Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop (TOM 6); March 23, 2013; McGill University
“New Information, Evidentiality and Mirativity” The Nature of Evidentiality; June 14-16, 2012; Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
“Documenting Evidentiality: the State of the Art” Workshop on Documenting Evidentiality; June 13, 2012; Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
“Root Modality and the Ordering Source in Gitksan” Modality@OttawaU; April 20-21, 2012; The University of Ottawa, Canada.
“Root Modality in Gitksan” Mood and Modality in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; March 25–26, 2010; Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
“Perfective aspect and actuality entailments: a cross-linguistic approach” Chronos 9; September 3, 2009; University of Paris 7 [with Lisa Matthewson, Henry Davis, Ileana Paul, Meagan Louie, Amelia Reis Silva].
“On the Semantics of Evidential Questions” 1st Meeting of Semanticists Active in Canada (MOSAIC); May 26, 2009; University of Ottawa [with Lisa Matthewson and Patrick Littell].
“Perfective aspect and actuality entailments: a cross-linguistic approach” Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 5); May 15-17, 2009; MIT and Harvard University [with Lisa Matthewson, Henry Davis, Ileana Paul, Meagan Louie, Amelia Reis Silva].
“Evidentials as epistemic modals or speech act operators: Testing the tests” The 14th Workshop on Structure and Consituency in Languages of the Americas; April 3-5, 2009; Purdue University [with R. Waldie and H. Rullmann].
“The Ordering Source and Graded Modality in Gitksan Epistemic Modals” Sinn und Bedeutung 13; September 30 – October 2nd, 2008; U. of Stuttgart, Germany. “[I missed the deadline for the proceedings, but the paper still exists]”
“Examining the Mirative and Metaphorical Uses of Evidentials” The 31st Generative Linguistics in the Old World Colloquium (GLOW 31); March 25-29, 2008; Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.
“Homophony and the Minimal Word in the Circassian Languages” Conference on the Languages of the Caucasus; December 7-9, 2007; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
“Examining the Role of the Oblique across the Tsimshianic Continuum: Causatives and Applicatives” Conference on Ditransitive Constructions; November 23-25, 2007; MPI-EVA, Leipzig, Germany
“Pragmatic Blocking in Gitksan Evidential Expressions” 38th Meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society; October 26-28, 2007; University of Ottawa, Canada
“Dynamic Correspondences: An Object-Oriented Approach to Tracking Sound Reconstructions” (with G. Picanço) 9th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology; June 38, 2007; Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
“Analytical Database Design: Approaches in the Mapping between Cognate and Semantic Sets” 7th International Workshop on Computational Semantics; January 10-12, 2007; Tilburg University, The Netherlands
“An Analytical Database of Phonological Triggers and Targets: Nasality” (with G. Picanço) IX Congresso Nacional de Fonética e Fonologia; November 27-29, 2006; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil.
“The Morphosemantics of Causation in Interior Tsimshian” 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society; February 10-12, 2006; University of California, Berkeley, CA
“The (Re)organization of Semantic Roles in Tsimshian Connectives” ICSNL XXXIX: The 39th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages; August 11-13, 2004; Squamish Nation, N. Vancouver, BC.
“The Morphosyntax of Head and Phrase Distinctions in Ergative Agreement” (with J.C. Brown) PIONIER Workshop - ”Differential Subject Marking”; July 8-9, 2004; University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
“The Distribution of the Glottal Stop in Blackfoot” Workshop on American Indigenous Languages; April 30-May 2, 2004; University of California, Santa Barbara.
“Métodos Estatisticos para Análise de Linguas” (with G. Picanço) [Statistical Methods for Language Analysis] VII Jornada de Estudos Lingüisticos e Literários; November 12, 2003; Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brasil.
“Argument Structure and the DP-φP Distinction in Gitksan” Workshop on the Form and Function of Pronouns; September 19-21, 2003; UBC, Vancouver, BC.
“Prosodically-conditioned Vowel Phonology: the Case of Nuclear Schwa” Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2003; September 26-28, 2003; University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. (paper accepted, but unable to attend)
“The Morphosyntax of Subject pro: A Case of Grammatical Relations and Ergativity” Conference on Null Subjects and Parametric Variation; July 18-19, 2003; University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
“Deriving Transitivity and Ergativity in Gitksan: Evidence from Agreement and Pronominal Distribution” PIONIER Workshop “Case, Valency and Transitivity”; June 17-19, 2003; University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
“Minimality and Syllabification in Kabardian” Canadian Linguistic Association Conference; June 1-4, 2003; Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
“Pitch Accent and Tone Phonetic Correlates Between F0 and Intensity in Blackfoot and Mundurukú” (with G. Picanço) Canadian Linguistic Association Conference; June 1-4, 2003; Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
“Minimality and Syllabification in Kabardian” 39th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society; April 9-12, 2003; The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.