About me
I am an assistant professor of language science at the University of California, Irvine. My research foci are language documentation (particularly of the Americas) and language contact and change. My areas of formal linguistic interest lie primarily in morphosyntax.
My dissertation involved work with the Nuuchahnulth language, documenting and modeling certain coordination strategies, and was advised by Emily Bender. I maintain an interest in the continuing documentation and revival of Nuuchahnulth as a spoken language. For more information about documentation and revitalization work on Nuuchahnulth, as well as Kwak'wala, please see the Tashii-Texela Language Scoiety.
In the years following my PhD, I have held several postdoctoral positions. At the University of Zurich, I was a key member of the development team for the Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database, a resource which tracks the variation of areally-relevant linguistic phenomena across many languages in the Americas. I have also held positions as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen and the Université Côte d'Azur.
You can find my CV here: [PDF].
Contact
d [the dot] inman [the at] uci [the dot] edu
Academic publications
The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database. Scientific Data, 12(1):933. [URL] [bib]
Singular-plural verb stem alternation: uncovering global and local drivers of typological variation. Linguistic Typology, 29(1). 81-125. [URL] [bib]
Singular-plural verb stem alternation: uncovering global and local drivers of typological variation. International Journal of American Linguistics, 91(3). 373-392. [URL] [bib]
Is there a typological profile of isolates? In Salaberri et al. (eds.) Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives. [URL] [bib]
Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence Scientific Data, 12(1):106. [URL] [bib]
Alignment everywhere all at once: Applying the late aggregation principle to a typological database of argument marking Journal of Language Modelling, 12(2). 287-347. [URL] [bib]
Multi-variate coding for possession: Methodology and preliminary results. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences. [URL] [bib]
The exponence and development of plurals in Nuuchahnulth. International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages. [URL] [bib]
Multi-predicate Constructions in Nuuchahnulth. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Washington. [URL] [bib]
The representation of predicates at the syntactic-semantic boundary in Nuuchahnulth. International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, Bellingham, United States. [URL] [bib]
STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks. ComputEL-2: 39. [URL] [bib]
Negation in Nanti: Syntactic Evidence for Head and Dependent Negators. In Stefan Müller, editor, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, University at Buffalo. 103-113. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. [URL] [bib]
Other publications
Anti-Social Media: A Modest Proposal for Significant Restraint. American Affairs, 7(2). [URL]