shawn.gaffney

((my protective glasses for working with dangerous languages))

I am currently a second year graduate student in Linguistics here at Stony Brook.  My current research has been on phonetics and sound change in Eastern Algonquian languages, spefically, the change of /a:/ to /ã:/.  I am also interested in the Algonquian group in general, and the langauges of the Caucasus, especially Georgian, Kabardian and Lezgian.  

I am also interested in historical and comparative linguistics, and typology.  I have studied many of the old or classical Indo-European languages, reconstruction, Proto-Indo-European linguistics and PIE mythology.  

Current Research Notes/Papers

-Early Algonquian Linguistics - Harriot and Eliot

-Spontaneous Nasalization in Eastern Algonquian

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