Biography:
Research Interests:
- Fieldwork-based language analysis
- African Languages
- Formal phonology and formal semantics
Representative Publications:
Morton, Deborah and Frances Blanchette. 2025. Irrealis as modality: evidence from Gɪsɪɖa Anii. Journal of Linguistics 61: 339-368. doi:10.1017/S002222672400029X
Blanchette, Frances and Deborah Morton. 2024. The Syntax of Negation in Gιsιɖa Anii. In: Huang, Yaqian et al., Eds. Selected Papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (Contemporary African Linguistics).
The Anii Language: A Progressive Language Island in Togo and Benin. 2024. Journal of Language Contact (16: 187-212).
[ATR] Harmony in an Eleven-Vowel Language: The Case of Anii. 2012. In: Marlo, Michael R.,Nikki B. Adams, Christopher R. Green, Michelle Morrison, and Tristan M. Purvis (Eds.). Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. 70-78. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Peer-reviewed.
Temporal and Aspectual Reference in Bassila Anii. 2012. In: Bogal-Allbritton, Elizabeth (Ed.), Proceedings of SULA 6 and SULA-Bar: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (and Elsewhere). 349-363. Amherst: GLSA Publications.
AYAH GADO Amadou. 2006. Morton, Deborah, editor. Gʊya K’ushile [Market Day]. Bassila: La Sociéte Internationale de Linguistique.
Courses Taught:
The Study of Language
Foundations of Linguistics
Introduction to Phonology
Introduction to Semantics
Linguistic Fieldwork
Language and Culture in Africa
Phonetic Analysis
Anthropological Linguistics
Proseminar in Language Science (for graduate students in the dual-title degree program)
Proseminar in Professionalization (for graduate students in the dual-title degree program)