The Mirror Principle Violations Project

I worked as a graduate assistant on Dr. Neil Myler’s Mirror Principle Violations Project, which is one component of the SULa Lab’s research on argument structure and morphology.

My role was to survey descriptive materials for a set of under-researched languages, including Indonesian, Wichita, West Greenlandic, Yagua, and Zulu, and document how causative and applicative morphology behaves in each case.

For each language I summarized typological morphology/syntax facts, recorded which markers were used for causatives versus applicatives, checked whether the same marker could do both jobs, and noted whether the sources discussed when both markings appeared on the same verb.

For more about the lab, see the SULa Lab research page.