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Hunter Thompson Lockwood

Biography

Dr. Hunter Thompson Lockwood is a linguist working under Dr. David Costa in the Language Research Office at the Myaamia Center. Since 2008, he has worked with Algonquian language communities on language documentation and revitalization. He helped create an authoritative, community-driven dictionary of Forest County Potawatomi and went on to write a descriptive grammar of that language for his dissertation. Now, at the Myaamia Center, he is working to apply those same skills to the documentation and reclamation of Miami-Illinois.

He grew up in northern Michigan and completed his bachelor’s degree in linguistics at Eastern Michigan University. While finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017, he moved back to Michigan where he taught introductory English at Washtenaw Community College and linguistics at Oakland University. He now resides outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, with his spouse, Kira Dallaire.

Publications

In press. Applicatives across Algonquian. In Fernando Zúñiga & Denis Creissels (eds.) Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages (with Monica Macaulay).

To appear. Survey of content questions in Miami-Illinois. Papers of the 52nd Algonquian Conference, ed. by Monica Macaulay and Margaret Noodin.

2019. Revisiting the Position of Potawatomi in (Central) Algonquian. Papers of the 48th Algonquian Conference, Macaulay, Monica and Margaret Noodin (eds.).

2018. Nominal TAM and the Preterit in Potawatomi. Papers of the 47th Algonquian Conference, Macaulay, Monica and Margaret Noodin (eds.).

2017. How the Potawatomi Language Lives: A Grammar of Potawatomi. Dissertation committee: Monica Macaulay (chair), Rand Valentine, Joe Salmons, Eric Raimy, Larry Nesper, David Costa.

2017. Revisiting Potawatomi Derivational Morphology. In Papers of the 46th Algonquian Conference, Macaulay, Monica and Margaret Noodin (eds.).

2016. Anything Goes: Extreme Polysemy in Lexical Semantic Change. American Speech 91(2):139-165. (With Samatha Litty, David Natvig, Jessica Funtanilla, James Maedka, Christopher Tabisz, and Joseph Salmons).

2015. “There is no thermostat in the forest” - the Ojibwe temperature term system. In The Linguistics of Temperature, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (ed.):709-729. (With Susanne Vejdemo).

Presentations

2023. Relative roots: Form and function. 55th Algonquian Conference, University of Alberta, October 2023, Edmonton, AB (with Monica Macaulay and Vivian Nash).

2023. Notes on measurement and mathematics in Miami-Illinois. 55th Algonquian Conference, University of Alberta, October 2023, Edmonton, AB.

2022. The Miami-Illinois Digital Archive: Where Are We Now? 9th Biennial Myaamiaki Conference, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, April 2022, Oxford, OH (with David J. Costa).

2021. Strategies for Lexical Expansion in Algonquian Languages. 53rd Algonquian Conference, Carleton University, October 2021, Ottawa, ON (with Rachel Fedorchak, Vade Kamenitsa-Hale, and Monica Macaulay).

2019. Historical notes on the pound sign (#) in linguistic theory. Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, January 2019, New York City, NY.

2018. Fortis and lenis consonants in Potawatomi (and Ojibwe): Converging lines of evidence. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, January 2018, Salt Lake City, UT.

2017. Pleomorphism in Hockett’s Potawatomi. Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, January 2017, Austin, TX.

2015. Ggagnoondimin ‘We are speaking with each other’ - A Panel Discussion on American Indian Education, Language, and Culture. Connecting the Dots: Stories that Matter, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI (with Kira Dallaire, Michelle Lietz, Amber Morseau, and Sara Acton).

2015. Resilience and Revitalization. 47th Algonquian Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (with Kira Dallaire).

2010. G’giibinaawjtoon! (‘You broke it!’). Anishinaabemowin Teg, Sault Sainte Marie, MI (with Howard Kimewon).