Willie Myers

Publications

Journal articles
  • Under review.
    • Subjectless and objectless readings of again in Kanien’kéha: implications for argument structure. Submitted.
  • 2025
    • Expanding the typology of absolutive syntax in Mayan: Evidence from Northern Mam. Language and Linguistics Compass 19 (3). [link]
    • The form and function of Kirundi exclamatives. Linguistic Variation. [link]
Other Peer-Reviewed Papers
  • To appear
    • Headless relative clauses and anti-agreement in Kirundi. In Pamoja tena ‘Together again’: African linguistics after COVID, eds. Vicki Carstens, Katherine Russell, Olawale Akingbade, Deborah Morton & Michael Diercks, chapter 20, 467–502. Berlin: Language Science Press. [pdf]
  • 2023
Proceedings Papers
  • 2025
    • More again readings and more again morphemes: a structural analysis of Kanien’kéha again. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 29, 1122–1140. [link]
    • Reversives, repetitives and ongoing telic events in Kanien’kéha. With Arihwí:saks Colin Benedict and Terrance Gatchalian. Proceedings of the 2025 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. [link]
    • First, second, and third person imperatives in Kanien’kéha. With Wíshe Mittelstaedt. Proceedings of the 2025 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. [link]
  • To appear
    • Event repetition and objectless presuppositions in Kanien’kéha. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on the Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas. [pdf]
    • A syntactic approach to repetitive presuppositions in Kanien’kéha. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. [pdf]
    • Lexical aspect and the Stative Present in Kanien’kéha. With Tehokwiráthe Cross, Terrance Gatchalian, Katya Morgunova, and Ro’nikonhkátste Norton. Proceedings of WSCLA 23, University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics. [pdf]
Kanien’kéha Language Resources
  • 2025
    • Repetitive. In Iakwarhihwí:saks: Special Topics in Kanien’kéha. Published by the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center.
    • Patterns with present, reversive, and repetitive readings. With Arihwí:saks Colin Benedict and Terrance Gatchalian. In Iakwarhihwí:saks: Special Topics in Kanien’kéha. Published by the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center.
    • Niwakenehrakò:’on! How to exclaim in Kanien’kéha! In Iakwarhihwí:saks: Special Topics in Kanien’kéha. Published by the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center.
BA Thesis
  • Revitalizing Shinshu: Destination Campaigns and the Prefectural Prerogative of Contemporary Japanese Domestic Tourism (Princeton University, 2011) [pdf]