Publications and Talks

Publications

• Carroll, M. Accepted. Syntactic ergativity in Ngkolmpu: Revising the typology of co-referential restrictions. Festchrift for Nicholas Evans ed. Rachel Nordlinger and Alice Gaby. Canberra: ANU Press.

• Evans, N., C. Döhler, & Carroll, M. In Press. Historical linguistics of the Yam family. The Oxford Guide to Papuan Languages. ed. Nicholas Evans and Sebastian Fedden. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Carroll, M. In Press. Yei (Yam). The Oxford Guide to Papuan Languages. ed. Nicholas Evans and Sebastian Fedden. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Carroll, M.J.  2022. Verbose Exponence: linking the typologies of multiple and distributed exponence. Morphology 32. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-021-09384-8

• Carroll, M.J. 2021. Phonetics and phonology of Ngkolmpu. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 24: Phonetic fieldwork in Southern New Guinea. Manoa. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24993

• Carroll, M.J.  2020. Discontinuous noun phrases in Ngkolmpu. Studies in Language 44 (3). 700-721 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.19015.car

• Carroll, M.J.  2020. Morphology of Yam Languages. Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Linguistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.677

• Carroll, M.J.  2019. Prenasalised voiceless stops in Ngkolmpu. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019. Melbourne, Australia.

• Evans, N., W. Arka, M. Carroll, Y.J. Choi, C. Döhler, V. Gast, E. Kashima, E. Mittag, B. Olsson, K. Quinn, D. Schokkin, P. Tama, C. van Tongeren and J. Siegel. 2018. The Languages of Southern New Guinea.The Languages and Linguistics of New Guinea: A Comprehensive Guide, ed. Bill Palmer. Berlin: De Gruyer Mouton.

Data sets and language documentation archives

• Carroll, M.J. 2020. Pan-dialectal documentation of the Yei language. London: SOAS University of London, Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0012-D793-C. 

• Carroll, M.J. 2019. Set theoretic-paradigm collection. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4898419  

• Carroll, M.J., Nicholas Evans, I Wayan Arka, Christian Döhler, Eri Kashima, Volker Gast, Tina Gregor, Julia Miller, Emil Mittag, Bruno Olsson, Dineke Schokkin, Jeff Siegel, Charlotte van Tongeren & Kyla Quinn. 2016. Yamfinder: Southern New Guinea Lexical Database.

• Carroll, M.J.  2012. Languages of Southern New Guinea Project: Ngkolmpu. Collection LSNG04 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56E979083360E

PhD thesis

• Carroll, M.J. 2016. The Ngkolmpu Language with special reference to distributed exponence. Australian National University. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116801

Presentations

2024

• Mae Carroll, Sam Passmore, Christian Döhler and Nicholas Evans.  A Phylogeny of Yam Languages. Presented at Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, 2024, Canberra, Australia.

• Mae Carroll and Sacha Beniamine. A Data-Direct Typology of Exponence. Presented 15th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, 2024, Singapore.

2023

• Carroll, MJ & S Beniamine.  Linguistic comprehension and the typology of exponence. Australian National University Seminar Series. 6 October 2023.

• Beniamine, S, Cormac Anderson, Mae Carroll, Matías Guzmán Naranjo, Borja Herce, Matteo Pellegrini, Erich Round, Helen Sims-Williams, Tiago Tresoldi. Paralex: a DeAR standard for rich lexicons of inflected forms. International Symposium of Morphology, Nancy, France. 13 September 2023.

• Beniamine, S & M.J. Carroll. The other perspective on exponence. International Symposium of Morphology, Nancy, France. 15 September 2023.

• Carroll, MJ. Morphological exponence from the hearer's perspective: theory and typology. Invited Talk: Surrey Linguistics Circle, University of Surrey 20 February 2023

• Carroll, MJ. Morphological exponence from the hearer's perspective: theory and typology. Invited Talk: Ling Lunch,  Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Cité. 23 February 2023

2022 

• Carroll, MJ & S Beniamine. Morphological exponence: theory, implementation and typology. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting 2022. Melbourne, Australia

• Carroll, M.J. Syntactic ergativity in Ngkolmpu: Revising the typology of co-referential restrictions. Nicholas Evans Festschrift Event. Melbourne, Australia. 

• Carroll, M.J. Explaining redundant morphology through evolutionary dynamics: evidence from Yam and Kartvelian. Surrey Linguistics Circle. Guildford UK.

2021

• Carroll, M.J & Steven Gagau. Introducing the Sulka Collection: documentation through community engagement in the time of COVID-19. Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea. 

• Carroll, M.J & Zurab Baratashvili. Explaining redundancy in linguistic morphology: evidence from Yam and Kartvelian. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting 6-11 December 2021.

• Carroll, M.J. Verbose exponence. MultEx@ZAS. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft in Berlin 1st-3rd December 2021. 

• Carroll, M.J. Explaining redundancy in linguistic morphology: evidence from Yam and Kartvelian. Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2021, Sapporo. 9th-11th June 2021.

• Carroll, M.J. The double verb construction in Yei. 13th Austronesian & Papuan Languages & Linguistics Conference, Edinburgh. 10th-12th June 2021. 

2020

• Carroll, M.J. (2020). Structural correlates of morphological redundancy: Toward an evolutionary explanation for stable inflectional overlap . Departmental Seminar Australian National University. 26th June 2020. Canberra, Australia (Online).

• Olsson, Bruno & M.J. Carroll (2020). Syntactically relevant morphology: The Coastal Marind fourth Gender. Paper presented at 12th Austronesian Papuan Language and Linguistics Conference. 20th June 2020. Oslo, Norway (Online).

• Carroll, M.J. (2020). Redundancy in morphological exponence. Invited talk Syntax Circle at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS). 18th June 2020. Berlin, Germany (Online).

• Carroll, M.J. (2020). Exponence in Papuan Languages. Invited talk Surrey Linguistics Circle. Guildford, UK. (Online).

2019

• Olsson, Bruno & M.J. Carroll (2019). Syntactically relevant morphology: The Coastal Marind fourth Gender. Paper presented at Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting. 11-13 December 2019. Sydney, Australia.

• Carroll, M.J. (2019). Syntactic Ergativity in Ngkolmpu. Paper presented at Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting. 11-13 December 2019. Sydney, Australia.  SLIDES

• Carroll, M.J. (2019). Grammatical relations in Ngkolmpu. Paper presented at International Conference on Austronesian and Papuan Worlds. 6-8 September 2019. Bali, Indonesia

• Carroll, M.J., C. Döhler and N. Evans. (2019). Untangling the coronals in Proto-Yam. Paper presented at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics. 1-5 July 2019. Canberra, Australia.

• Carroll, M.J. 2019. Modelling redundancy for typology. Invited presentation at Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Paris Diderot University, 1st March 2019. SLIDES

• Carroll, M.J. 2019. Modelling redundancy for typology. Invited presentation at SOAS, London 28th February 2019.

• Carroll, M.J. 2019. Modelling and measuring morphological redundancy. Poster presented at the American Associations for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting. 14-17 February. Washington, DC. DOWNLOAD POSTER.

2018

• Carroll, M.J. 2018. Modelling and measuring redundancy in multiple exponence. Paper presented at New approaches to the typology of inflectional systems workshop. 16th November 2018. University of Chicago Center in Paris, Paris.

• Carroll, M.J. 2018. A set-theoretic model of redundancy in multiple exponence. Paper presented at the New Fields for Morphology Workshop. 2-3rd November 2018. University of Surrey, Guildford.

• Carroll, M.J. 2018. Configurationality in Ngkolmpu revisited. Paper presented at Syntax of the World's Languages 8. 3-5 September 2018. INALCO, Paris.

• Carroll, M.J. 2018. Configurationality in Ngkolmpu revisited. Paper presented at the 10th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference. 4-5th May 2018. University of Surrey, Guildford.

2017

• Carroll, M.J. 2017. The extent of (non-)redundancy in distributed exponence. Paper presented at the 12th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. 11-15th December 2017. Australian National University, Canberra.

• Carroll, M.J. 2017. Toward a typology of distributed exponence. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. 4-7 September 2017. University of Kent, Canterbury

• Carroll, M.J. 2017. Distributed exponence of tense, aspect and mood in Ngkolmpu. Paper presented at the 9th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference. 21-23 June 2017. INALCO, Paris.

• Carroll, M.J. 2017. Prenasalised Voiceless Stops in Ngkolmpu. Workshop on the Languages of Papua 4. Universitas Papua, Manokwari, Indonesia.

• Evans, Nicholas, M.J. Carroll and Christian Döhler. 2017. Reconstructing the Phonology of Proto-Yam. Workshop on the Languages of Papua 4. Universitas Papua, Manokwari, Indonesia.

2016

• Carroll, M.J. 2016. (Sub)Paradigmatic autonomy in Ngkolmpu. New Fields for Morphology Workshop. University of Melbourne, Melbourne.

• Carroll, M.J. and T. Mark Ellison. 2016. Measuring exponence complexity. Australian Linguistic Society Annual Meeting 2016. Monash University, Melbourne.

2015

• Carroll, M.J. 2015. Inflection in Ngkolmpu: Distributed exponence and sub-paradigmatic autonomy. Departmental seminar, linguistics department. University of Cologne, Germany.

• Carroll, M.J. 2015. Markednes and stem selection in Ngkolmpu. Departmental seminar at the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

• Carroll, M.J. and T. Mark Ellison. 2015. A Minimum-Description Length Measure of Exponence Complexity. Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2015. University College London, London.

• Carroll, M.J. 2015. The Exception that Proves the Rule: Defaults, markedness and the case of a typological outlier. Talk given at The 10th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. Haifa, Israel.

• Carroll, M.J. 2015. Middles in Ngkolmpu. Talk given at Workshop on Middles, Australian National University.

2014

• Carroll, M.J. 2014. Defaults vs. Markedness: A note on the organising principle of morphology. Talk given at Australian Linguistics Society Conference 2014, University of Newcastle.

• Carroll, M.J. 2014. Verbal Number and Aspect in Ngkolmpu. Talk given at the Seventh Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference. SOAS, University of London. Slides.

• Carroll, M.J. 2014. Modelling Non-Canonical Inflection in Ngkolmpu.  Departmental seminar at the Surrey Morphology Group. University of Surrey, Guildford.

• Carroll, M.J. and Christian Döhler. 2014. Stem Choice in Proto Tonda-Kanum. Talk given at Southern New Guinea comparative project meeting. University of Armidale.

2013

• Carroll, M.J. 2013. Valence and Verbal Morphology in Ngkntra (Ngkolmpu). Invited plenary at the International Seminar on Austronesian/Papuan Languages and Literature. Udayana Univeristy, Bali, Indonesia.

• Carroll M.J. 2013. Inflectional Morphology and Syncretism in Ngkolmpu Kiki. Invited talk at departmental seminar at Universitas Udayana.

• Carroll, M.J. 2013. Morphological Complexity in Ngkntra (Ngkolmpu). Talk given at the Workshop of the Languages of Melanesia. ANU. 

• Carroll, M.J. 2013. The Case System of Ngkntra (Ngkolmpu) Kiki. Talk given for Thesis Proposal Review. Australian National University.

2012

• Carroll, M.J. 2012. Inflectional Morphology of Kanum: Arguments for a Paradigm-Function Account. Talk given at departmental Seminar. Linguistics Department. Australian National University.