Photo by Kori Guntly

Education

  • PhD Linguistics, University of British Columbia, 2021
  • BA cum laude, Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, 2012
  • MA Commercial Diplomacy, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 2003
  • BA Modern Languages (German), Pacific University, 1997

Research

Interests
  • The semantics of response particles and discourse more generally
  • Gesture and multilingualism
  • Language contact and language change
Experience
  • Paradoxical Responses, doctoral dissertation research, UBC, 2016-2020
  • Tense and Aspect of the Pacific, UBC, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (SSHRC), 2016-2018
  • Syntax of Speech Acts, UBC, funded by SSHRC, 2015-2016
  • Tlingit Language Project, UBC, funded by SSHRC, 2013-2014
  • Ktunaxa Language Documentation, UBC, funded by SSHRC, 2012-2016
  • Politeness Strategies in English Language Learners, Portland State University, 2012
  • Energy Policy in Japan and the Russian Far East, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 2001-2003
Funding
  • Professional Development Fund, Portland State University, $1,275 (2023) to investigate Spanish English code switching.
  • Jacobs Fund, $5,316 (2016) to document Ktunaxa
  • David L. Boren Fellowship, United States National Security Education Program, over $40,000 (2002), to research energy policy in Japan and Russia.

Presentations & Publications

(2021) Guntly, E. A. ’Yeah, I doubt it.’ ’No, it’s true.’ How paradoxical responses impact the common ground, UBC Dissertation. (link) 

(2021) Guntly, E. A. “Yeah, I doubt it.” “No, it’s true.” Paradoxical responses and the response target hypothesis. Presentation to SPAGAD, 10 May 2021. 

(2018) Siyamiyateliyot Elizabeth Phillips, Xwiyalemot Tillie Gutierrez, and Susan Russell, with Sa:yisatlha Vivian Williams and Strang Burton, edited by E. A. Guntly. Talking in Halq’eméylem, UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics. 300 pages. (link) 

(2018) Matthewson, L., Guntly, E. A., and Rochemont, M.,eds. Wa7 xweysás i nqwal’utteníha i ucwalmícwa: He loves the people’s languages: Essays in honour of Henry Davis, UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics. 758 pages. (link) 

(2017) Matthewson, L., Bertrand, A., Burge, H., Chen, S., Gambarage, J., Guntly, E. A., Heins, T. J., Huijsmans, M., Kassam, K., McClay, E., Reisinger, D., Rullmann, H., Salles, R., Schwan, M. and Vander Klok, J., “Developing a Perfect Methodology,” presented at The Semantics of Verbal Morphology in Under-described Languages (SemVerbMorph), Gotheborg, Sweden. 

(2017) Bertrand, A., Burge, H., Chen, S., Gambarage, J., Guntly, E. A., Heins, T. J., Huijsmans, M., Kassam, K., McClay, E., Reisinger, D., Salles, R., Schwan, M., Vander Klok, J., Matthewson, L. and Rullmann, H., “Nobody’s Perfect,” presented at The Semantics of Verbal Morphology in Under-described Languages (SemVerbMorph), Gotheborg, Sweden. 

(2017) Gambarage, J., Anghelescu, A., Burton, S., Dunham, J., Guntly, E., Keupdjio, H., Lam, Z. W.-M., Osa-Gomez, A., Pulleyblank, D., Si, D., Yoshino, Y., and Dećhaine, R.-M. “The Nata Documentation Project,” in collection Africa’s En-dangered Languages, edited by Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence, Oxford University Press. (link) 

(2016) Guntly, E. A., and Wiltschko, M. “Polar Responses in Ktunaxa.” Poster presented at SULA, May 2016. 

(2016) Gambarage, J. and Guntly, E. A. “The Syntax of Possession in Nata and the Role of the Preprefix,” Bantu6 in Helsinki, June 2016. 

(2015) Sadlier-Brown, E., Guntly, E. A., Heim, J., Keupdijo, H., Lewis, B., Matthewson, L., McClay, E., Osa-Gómez, A., and Wiltschko, M. “What do you know when you say ’you know’?” Poster presented at DETEC, June 2015. 

(2014) Sydorenko, T., Maynard, C. & Guntly, E. A. “Rater Behavior when Judging Language Learners’ Pragmatic Appropriateness in Extended Discourse.” TESL Canada 32, p. 19-41. (link) 

(2014) Guntly, E. A. “Training category explansion with stops and ejectives in Ktunaxa.” UBCWPL 37, p. 273-288. (link) 

(2014) Guntly, E. A. “Possessor Syntax in Nata.” Presented at the 45th Annual Conference on African Languages, Lawrence, KS, April 2014. 

(2013) Guntly, E. A. “The Syntax of Number in Ktunaxa.” presented at the International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, Victoria, BC, August 2013. 

(2013) Burton, S., Déchaine, R.-M. & Gambarage, J., with C. Brown, A. Entwistle, E. A. Guntly, R. Fuhrman, N. Francis, H. Keupdjio, W.M. Lam, J. Ma, A. Osa Gomez del Campo, E. Sadlier-Brown, I. Schniske, D. Si, S. Walters & Y. Yoshino. “Using Storyboards to Elicit Information Structure Contrasts in Nata,” presented at the Canadian Linguistics Association, Victoria, BC, June 2013. 

(2002) Guntly, "E. A. Economic and Energy Policy in the Russian Far East," presented at National Security Education Program annual meeting, Washington, DC, January 2002.