Richard Compton

Richard Compton
Department of Linguistics
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville
Montréal, QC H3C 3P8 Canada

Phone : 514.987.3000, ext. 3192
compton[dot]richard[at]uqam[dot]ca

• 2014 Postdoctoral Fellowship, McGill University
• 2012 PhD Linguistics, University of Toronto
• 2004 MA Linguistics, University of Toronto
• 2002 BAH Language & Linguistics, Queen’s University

Here are a list of media interviews and the relevant links:

• Miniboom des langues autochtones à Montréal, 22 mai 2017, Le Devoir
• La transmission comme gage de survie, 5 avril 2016, Le Devoir
• Indigenous languages go under the microscope, 25 mars 2016, Montreal Gazette
• Des dictionnaires pour protéger les langues autochtones, 3 avril 2016, Métro
• Snow goes by many different names, 31 décembre 2015, Western Producer
• Montreal linguist encouraging students to study Inuktitut, 17 avril 2015, Nunatsiaq News
• Revitaliser les langues autochtones, 12 avril 2016, Actualités UQAM

Richard Compton, Professor in the Department of Linguistique at UQAM

Matthew Schuurman, PhD student in Linguistics and Research Assistant (website)

Marie-Loup Turenne, MA student in Linguistics

Ghyslain Cantin-Savoie, Undergraduate student in Linguistics and Research Assistant

Nora Villeneuve, Undergraduate student in Linguistics

• July 13, 2019 — Richard Compton is named chair-holder of the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Knowledge and Transmission of the Inuit Language (SSHRC).
• July 3, 2019 — Matthew Schuurman defends his doctoral exam on nominalization and relativization.
• July 1, 2019 — Nora Villeneuve wins the Award for the Best Student Poster (tied) from the Canadian Linguistics Association.
• June 1-3, 2019 — Matthew Schuurman gives a talk on plosive reduction in Inuktitut at the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
• June 1-3, 2019 — Nora Villeneuve presents a poster on the Inuktitut aspectual maker –liq– at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
• June 1-3, 2019 — Anja Arnhold (U. of Alberta), Emily Elfner (York U.) & Richard Compton give a talk entitled “On the Absence of Stress in Inuktitut” at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
• May 9-11, 2019 — Matthew Schuurman presents at WSCLA 24 at the University of Maryland on coordination markers in Inuktitut.
• March 27, 2019 — Richard Compton (PI), Heather Igloliorte, Mark K. Watson, Shawn-Renee Hordyk, Sarah L. Fraser, and Looee Okalik receive a SSHRC Connection Grant to organize the 21st Inuit Studies Conference.
• February 28 – March 3, 2019 — Richard Compton presents at 6th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC), Connecting Communities, Languages & Technology, at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
• May 30 – June 1, 2018 — Richard Compton gives a talk on person complementarity at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), at the University of Regina, in Saskatchewan.
• May 2018 — Christophe Mauro submits his MA thesis entitled «Le statut de la troisième personne en inuktitut» (The status of the third person in Inuktitut).
• April 20-22, 2018 — Richard Compton presents a poster at WCCFL 36 at UCLA.
• April 13-15, 2018 — Richard Compton gives an invited talk at WSCLA 23 at the University of Ottawa.
• December 1, 2017 — Richard Compton gives an invited talk at the Concordia University.
• November 27-29, 2017 — Richard Compton gives a talk on the Inuit language at the 12th Langage and Development Conference, organized by the British Council at Dakar, Senegal.
• November 18-19, 2017 — Richard Compton gives at talk at the MoMOT Morphology Workshop at UQAM.
• October 27-29, 2017 — Richard Compton presents a poster at the 48th North-East Linguistics Society (NELS), at the University of Iceland, in Reykjavik, Iceland.
• September 22-23, 2017 — Richard Compton gives a talk on person-case constraints (PCC) in Inuktitut at the Manitoba Person Workshop, at the University of Manitoba.
• July 17 – August 7, 2017 — Marie-Loup Turenne and Alexandra Daigneault conduct fieldwork in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
• May 27-29, 2017 — Richard Compton gives a talk on «Left-periphery φ-agreement and A-movement in Inuktitut» at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (ACL-CLA) at Ryerson University, in Toronto.
• May 27-29, 2017 — Chris Mauro presents a talk on switch reference and language change in Inuktitut at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (ACL-CLA) at Ryerson University, in Toronto.
• April 21-23, 2017 — Emily Kudlak and Richard Compton give a talk at the 22nd Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA), at the University of British Columbia.
• April 21-23, 2017 — Chris Mauro presents a poster at the 22nd Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA), at the University of British Columbia.
• March 14-18, 2017 — Anja Arnhold, Richard Compton, and Emily Elfner present on “XP-sized prosodic words in Inuit” at the 40th Generative Linguistics in the Old Word (GLOW), at the University of Leiden, Netherlands.
• December 12, 2016 — Marie-Loup Turenne gives a talk on word order in declarative clauses in Inuktitut at the Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics (ABLT/BWTL), at Concordia University.
• November 19, 2016 — Chris Mauro gives a talk on entitled “Personnes et non-personne en Inuktitut” at the 1st annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Morphology Workshop (MoMOT) at Carleton University, in Ottawa.
• October 7-10, 2016 — Richard Compton, Chris Mauro and Marie-Loup Turenne give presentations at the 20th Congrès d’Études Inuit Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
• September 22 – 24 2016 — Richard Compton, Anja Arnhold and Emily Elfner present a talk at The Word and the Morpheme workshop at Humboldt University in Berlin.
• July 4 – July 18, 2016 — Richard Compton, Chris Mauro, and Marie-Loup Turenne conduct fieldwork in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
• June 20 – July 1, 2016 — Chris Mauro and Marie-Loup Turenne participate in the Institue on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang 2016) at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
• May 29, 2016 — Emily Elfner (UBC), Richard Compton (UQAM) and Anja Arnhold (Konstanz) present a talk on polysynthetic words at the CLA at the University of Calgary.
• May 28, 2016 — Chloé Larouche and François Steffann give a talk on vowels in Inuktitut at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (ACL-CLA) at the University of Calgary.
• April 1-3, 2016 — Chris Mauro, Marie-Loup Turenne, Chloé Larouche, and François Steffann present talks on Inuktitut at the 21st WSCLA at UQAM.