Kenneth Baclawski, Jr.

Linguist, Language Engineer

Please find PDFs of some of my papers, presentations, and other manuscripts below.

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal publications

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. To appear. “Multi-functional deictics in South Central Tibeto-Burman.” Himalayan Linguistics. Accepted, expected 2023.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2018. “Diglossia and change from below in Eastern Cham.” Asia-Pacific Language Variation 4.1: 73–102. John Benjamins.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth & Peter Jenks. 2016. “Clefts and Anti-Superiority in Moken.” The Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 9: 81–96. ANU Research Publications.

Stanford, James N., Nathan Severance & Kenneth Baclawski Jr. 2014. “Multiple vectors of unidirectional dialect change in Eastern New England.” Language Variation and Change 26.1: 103–140. Cambridge University Press.

Stanford, James N., Tom Leddy-Cecere & Kenneth Baclawski Jr. 2012. “Farewell to the founders: Major dialect changes along the east-west New England border.” American Speech 89.2: 126–169. Duke University Press.

Conference proceedings and working papers

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2020. “Optional wh-movement and topicalization in Eastern Cham.” In, Ileana Paul (ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA): 1–17.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2019. “Optional wh-movement is discourse-connected movement in Eastern Cham.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 4.43: 1–13. Linguistic Society of America.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2018. “Contrastive topic in Eastern Cham.” Berkeley Papers in Formal Linguistics 1.1.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2018. “Subpart of Focus Fronting is discourse subordination.” In, Wm. G. Bennett, Lindsay Hracs & Dennis Ryan Storoshenko (eds.), Proceedings of the 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics: 87–95.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2017. “Clause-final particles and focus in Eastern Cham.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 2.18: 1–12. Linguistic Society of America.

Leddy-Cecere, Tom, Kenneth Baclawski Jr, Nacole Walker & James N. Stanford. 2011. “New England borderlands: A new investigation of the east-west dialect boundary.” University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected papers from NWAV-39 17.2, Article 15.

Edited volumes

Jurgensen, Anna, Hannah Sande, Spencer Lamoureux, Kenneth Baclawski Jr & Alison Zerbe (eds.). 2015. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 41st Annual Meeting. Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Language data

Archived materials

Mohammad Soleh Thiên, Kenneth Baclawski Jr, and Sikhara (Đàng Thanh Quốc Thuận). Eastern Cham Field Materials, 2014-20. California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley.

Manuscripts

Articles in preparation, withdrawn due to COVID-19 limitations

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. Accepted with minor revisions. “Eastern Cham optional wh-movement is Discourse Connected-movement.” Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. Springer Science+Business Media.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. Revise & resubmit. “Event semantics and discourse-connected movement in Eastern Cham.” Journal of East Asian Linguistics (Special Issue on Austronesian Linguistics). Springer.

Cited unpublished manuscripts

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2012. “Demonstratives and primate loud call frequency variation.” Dartmouth College.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2011. “A/O possession in modern Māori.” Dartmouth College.

Conference presentations

Selected refereed conference presentations
2020

Baier, Nico & Kenneth Baclawski Jr. 2020, September 9. “Morphological evidence for syntactic information structural features.” Paper presented at the 9th Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference (CamCoS 9 New). Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2020, August 20. “Event semantics and discourse connected movement in Eastern Cham.” Paper presented at the 27th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 27), National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2020. “DP-internal discourse connected-movement in Eastern Cham.” Paper accepted for the 30th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Canceled due to COVID-19.

2019

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth & Zihan Cindy Yang. 2019, September 28. “Experimental evidence for the status of the Right-Frontier Constraint.” Paper presented at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC 2019). Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS).

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2019, May 25. “Optional wh-movement and topicalization in Eastern Cham.” Paper presented at the 26th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 26), University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2019, January 3. “Optional wh-movement is discourse-connected movement in Eastern Cham.” Poster presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 93), New York City, New York.

2018

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2018, December 8. “Discourse subordination licenses D-linking: An experimental approach to rhetorical relation effects.” Paper presented at Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora 3 (ISSLAC 3), University of Münster, Münster, Germany.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2018, February 2. “Convergence and divergence in Eastern Cham language contact.” Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific 5 (NWAV-AP 5), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2018, January 17. “Discourse connectedness can condition wh-ex situ.” Paper presented at GenWH: The Geneva WH-orkshop on Optional Insituness, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2018, January 6. “Discourse connectedness: Towards a unification of topic and D-linking.” Poster presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 92), Salt Lake City, Utah.

Bland, Justin, Kenneth Baclawski Jr & Matthias Raess. 2018, January 4. “The first decade of because-NP: 2007-2016.” Paper presented at the American Dialect Society (ADS) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2017

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2017, April 30. “Subpart of Focus Fronting is discourse subordination.” Paper presented at the 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 35), University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2017, January 7. “Clause-final particles and focus in Eastern Cham.” Paper presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 91), Austin, Texas.

2016

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2016, November 6. “Covariance of syntactic and phonological contact effects in Eastern Cham.” Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 45 (NWAV 45), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2016, April 23. “Triglossia in Eastern Cham.” Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific 4 (NWAV-AP 4), National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan.

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2016, January 10. “Multiple fronting restrictions in Eastern Cham: An [ID]-feature account.” Paper presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 90), Washington DC.

Bland, Justin, Matthias Raess & Kenneth Baclawski Jr. 2016, January 9. “Because Formality: The conjunction-noun construction in online text corpora.” Poster presented at the American Dialect Society (ADS) Annual Meeting, Washington DC.

Lamoureux, Spencer & Kenneth Baclawski Jr. 2016, January 8. “Does Aymara have subtractive case morphology?” Poster presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 90), Washington DC.

2015

Baclawski Jr, Kenneth. 2015, December 2. “Topic, focus, and wh-phrases in Cham (and Moken).” Paper presented at Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora 2 (ISSLAC 2), Paris, France.