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James Cooper
Roberts
jcrobert [at] mit [dot] edu

semantics, syntax, typology, Algonquian, Japonic

Peer-reviewed Publications

Roberts, J. Cooper (2024). Investigating the productivity of Passamaquoddy medials: A computational approach. In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (pp. 13-20).

Lukin, Eugenia, J. Cooper Roberts, David Berdik, & Patrick Juola (2023). Adjectives and Adverbs as Stylometric Analysis Parameters. Special Issue of the International Journal of Digital Humanities: “Revisiting Authorship Attribution”. Springer.

Roberts, J. Cooper (2023). Infixed Reduplication under Kalin’s Infixation Process. International Journal of Languages, Literature, & Linguistics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 101-108. DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.2.388

Manuscripts

Roberts, J. Cooper (2024). Sliding-window reduplication: an overgeneration problem for BR-correspondence theories. M.S.

Selected Talk Materials

A rational solution to an agreement-interpretation puzzle [handout]. Presented at MIT LingLunch, 6 November 2025.

How to talk about groups in a language without group nouns: the case of Passamaquoddy [handout; joint work with Haoming Li & Yizhen Jiang]. Presented at TripleA 12, 10 September 2025.

Half of an answer: On Agreement with fraction partitives [handout]. Presented at Puzzles of Agreement: Syntactic, Semantic, and Psycholinguistic Perspectives workshop, 25 October 2024.