PhD students Katya Morgunova and Willie Myers received a Jacobs Research Fund grant to study Kanien’kéha (Mohawk; Iroquoian) for their respective dissertations. The grant covers elicitation with first-language speakers in Kahnawà:ke, Québec in collaboration with the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center. Katya will be looking at finiteness in embedded clauses while Willie will focus on the syntax and semantics of Kanien’kéha’s ”pre-pronominal prefixes” which express concepts like repetition and quantification. Willie also received funding from the Phillips Fund to support his dissertation project.
Congratulations both!