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Matthew Tyler

Update: I have now left academia and am not updating this site.

Latest

26/04/23: Slides for my talk at Newcastle University: “Free and fair selection: A selection-based account of some valency-neutral uses of valency-increasing morphology“

21/03/23: Mine and Jim Wood’s chapter on Voice for the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax is now available.

20/03/22: My paper “Case and agreement as contextually-manipulable properties of functional heads” has been published (open access) in the Journal of Linguistics.

24/02/22: My paper “CP complements of er-nominalisations in English” has been accepted for publication in English Language and Linguistics.

04/01/22: Slides for mine and Richard Stockwell’s LSA 2022 talk “Causative VP omission in English“

About me

Hi! I am a Junior Research Fellow in linguistics at Christ’s College, Cambridge. I work on syntax and its interfaces with morphology, semantics, phonology and the lexicon.

I completed my PhD at Yale University in 2020. My dissertation “Argument structure and argument-marking in Choctaw” looks at argument structure and its semantic and morphological correlates in Choctaw, a Muskogean language spoken in Mississippi and Oklahoma. As part of the research, I’ve spent time in Mississippi, working with speakers to document and analyze the language.

Here’s my CV.