Patrick Littell

You have reached the homepage of Patrick Littell. I am currently a PhD student in the Linguistics Department at the University of British Columbia. I received my MA in Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh with a concentration in the American Indian Language Program and a certificate in Latin American studies.

My theoretical interests are centered mostly around problems in Semantics, Morphosyntax, and Phonology, and I maintain active interests in Linguistic Typology and Historical Linguistics. My current language of research focus is Nɬeʔkepmxcín (Thompson Salish), a critically underdocumented First Nations language of the B.C. interior.

My undergraduate work was in Philosophy and Computer Science at NYU. My work in Philosophy was primarily in Language and Mind, and in CS, compiler theory and language implementation. For several years, I also taught Logic 205 and Philosophy 101 at CCBC.

	Polytypy and Antiquity within Tzotzil Plant Taxonomy
	Towards a Reconstruction of Proto-Totonac
	Body Part Medials in Algonquian
	Moroccan Arabic Inflectional Morphology
	Body Parts and Mithun's Implicational Hierarchy of Noun Incorporation (References)
	Wari' Reduplication as Fixed Segmentism

Here are some handouts from recent presentations I've given:

	NACLO Sample Problems: several presentations at local high schools, December 2006 - January 2007
	Clitics: Guest presentation, September 28th, 2006
	The Split-INFL Hypothesis: When I just isn't enough: Class Presentation, February 21st, 2006
	Russian Palatalization: Class presentation, December 14th, 2005
	Wari' Reduplication as Fixed Segmentism: Class presentation, December 6th, 2005

At any given time, I have a number of linguistics-related side projects going. Here are a few:

	NACLO: Puzzles from the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
	Lingk: A Linguist's Keyboard
	Rimanakuna: A vocabulary quiz generator for iQuiz
	Lingoku: A Puzzle of Distinctive Features