Graduate Student, Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics
Exeter College
Thesis Title: The Universality and Demarcation of Lexical Categories Cross-Linguistically
Mary Dalrymple
Paloma Gracia-Bellido
About
Lindsay Morcom (nee Weichel) is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. She has completed her doctoral thesis and successfully passed her Viva Voce examination.
Her current research is a typological study of parts of speech categories in Salish and Wakashan languages and Michif, and applies prototype theory to functional data to explore the nature and diversity of lexical categories across languages. She is interested in language documentation, and has written a grammar of Pokomchi', a Mayan language of Guatemala. She hopes to continue work on Aboriginal languages of the Americas, both in terms of working toward documentation and language pedagogy, as well as using data from these languages to inform current theory, especially in the areas of typology and morphology. She loves to teach, and has experience lecturing in Morphology, General Linguistics, and Aboriginal Languages of the Americas; she has also tutored in a variety of other subjects while at Oxford and has been employed as a Spanish instructor previously.
Lindsay is originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. In her spare time, she enjoys gumboot dancing, Middle Eastern dance, camping, cycling, and cooking. She loves animals and has two wonderful cats, Smudge and Squidget.
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