James Cooper Roberts

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James Cooper

Last Name

Roberts

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jcrobert [at] mit [dot] edu

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semantics, syntax, typology, Algonquian, Japonic

Manuscripts and Publications

Roberts, J. Cooper (2025). Measurement shifting in the syntax: a rational solution to an agreement-interpretation puzzle?
Roberts, J. Cooper (2025). Honor omnivorously: the syntax of politeness in Kikai Amami.
Roberts, J. Cooper (2024). Sliding-window reduplication: an overgeneration problem for BR-correspondence theories. Selected Talk Materials Part is part (plus pragmatics). Presented at OASIS 5, 4 December 2025.
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.