Research Output

Published articles

Matter, Florian. 2021. The origin of split third person marking in Arara (Cariban). Cadernos de Etnolingüística 8(2). 1–22.

Matter, Florian. 2020. An Inspection of Preferred Argument Structure in Mapudungun Narratives. International Journal of American Linguistics 86(1). 59–93. doi: 10.1086/705754. DOI: 10.1086/705754.

Kolly, Marie-José, Adrian Leemann & Florian Matter. 2015. Analysis of spatial variation with app-based crowdsourced audio data. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, 1710–1714. doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2015-393. DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2015-393.

Accepted

Matter, Florian. 2022. A comparative account of intransitive verbs with conservative first person forms in Cariban. (Accepted).

Unpublished

Matter, Florian & Rik van Gijn. 2022. “Linking” morphology in Tupían, Cariban, and Macro-Jê languages. (ms).

Matter, Florian. 2019. Gliding into a smaller inventory: A reanalysis of Bernese German diphthongs. (ms).

Talks

2023. Digital grammaticography: towards data-rich corpus-based interactive hypertext grammars. SLE 2023, University of Athens. 31.08.2023.

2023. A digital sketch grammar of Yawarana. Amazonicas IX, University of the Andes. 09.06.2023.

2023. A first glimpse at a workflow for writing digital grammars. GLOSS Colloquium, University of Oregon. 21.02.2023.

2022. Apparent Discontinuous NPs in the Cariban family from the perspective of diachronic typology (with Spike Gildea). ALT 2022, University of Texas. 16.12.2022.

2022. A second comparison of Cariban pronouns and deictics. SLE 2022, University of Bucharest. 26.08.2022.

2021. Irregular first person inflections in Cariban: converging factors for morphological (dis-)similarity. SLE 2021, Online. 31.08.2021.

2021. Combining description and documentation: a digital Boasian trilogy. International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, Online. 07.03.2021.

2020. Combining language description and documentation: a digital Boasian trilogy. Webinar, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund. 01.10.2020.

2020. Integrating grammatical description, text collection and dictionary: Language documentation and description for the digital age. SLE 2020, Online. 27.08.2020.

2019. Using CLDF and CLLD for language documentation and description. UPPLADOC Workshop on language documentation: multilingual settings and technological advances, University of Uppsala. 25.10.2019.

2019. “Linking” morphology in Tupían, Cariban, and Macro-Jê languages (with Rik van Gijn). SLE 2019, University of Leipzig. 21.08.2019.

2018. Hierarchies and inversion in Cariban languages. Forschungskolloquium Berner Linguistik, University of Bern. 18.10.2018.

2018. Gliding into a smaller inventory: A reanalysis of diphthongs in Bernese German . SLE 2018, University of Tallinn. 29.08.2018.

2018. “Relational” morphology in Cariban, Macro-Jê and Tupian languages. Forschungskolloquium Berner Linguistik, University of Bern. 18.04.2018.

2017. Wieviele Diphthonge hat Berndeutsch – und wenn ja, warum?. Forschungskolloquium Berner Linguistik, University of Bern. 29.10.2017.

2016. Preferred Argument Structure in Mapudungun Narratives. European Summer School of Linguistic Typology 2016, Porquerolles FR. 14.09.2016.

2016. Preferred Argument Structure in Mapudungun Narratives. Forschungskolloquium Berner Linguistik, University of Bern. 26.04.2016.

Datasets

Matter, Florian. 2021. Modified Swadesh-100 list of 23 Cariban languages. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4438189. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4438189.

Theses

Diachronic and typological aspects of Cariban verbal argument marking (PhD thesis).

Examining Preferred Argument Structure and Referential Density in Mapudungun Narratives (MA thesis).

The realisation of g’ha with an affricate in Swiss German dialects (BA thesis).