Publications

Forthcoming

Schmirler, K. (in press). Infrequent morphosyntactic phenomena in Plains Cree: Bloomfield’s text collections and the Ahenakew-Wolfart corpus. In M. Macaulay & M. Noodin (Eds.), Papers of the 52^nd Algonquian Conference. East Lansing: MSU Press.

Schmirler, K., & Arppe, A. (accepted). Plains Cree textual analysis with PCA: Across the Bloomfield and Ahenakew-Wolfart subcorpora. In M. Macaulay, M. Noodin, & I. Genee (Eds.), Papers of the 53rd Algonquian Conference. East Lansing: MSU Press.

Schmirler, K., Arppe, A., & Genee, I. (accepted). Morphophonological rule development and real-time rule testing with XFST: A model for Blackfoot. In M. Macaulay, M. Noodin, & I. Genee (Eds.), Papers of the 53rd Algonquian Conference. East Lansing: MSU Press.

2020

Arppe, A., Schmirler, K., Harrigan, A. G., & Wolvengrey, A. (2020). A morphosyntactically tagged corpus of Plains Cree. In M. Macaulay & M. Noodin (Eds.), Papers of the 49^th Algonquian Conference, pp. 1-19. East Lansing: MSU Press.

2019

Schmirler, K., & Arppe, A. (2019). Modelling Plains Cree negation with Constraint Grammar. Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2019 Workshop on Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications, 30 September 2019, Turku, Finland, 168, 27-34. Linköping University Electronic Press: Linköpings universitet.

Arppe, A., Schmirler, K., Silfverberg, M., Hulden, M., & Wolvengrey, A. (2019). Insights from Computational Modeling of the Derivational Structure of Plains Cree Stems. In M. Macaulay & M. Noodin (Eds.), Papers of the 48^th Algonquian Conference (pp. 1-18). East Lansing: MSU Press.

Schmirler, K., Harrigan, A. G., Arppe, A., & Wolvengrey, A. (2019). Plains Cree verbal derivational morphology: A corpus investigation. In M. Macaulay & M. Noodin (Eds.), Papers of the 48^th Algonquian Conference (pp. 239-54). East Lansing: MSU Press.

2018

Schmirler, K., Arppe, A., Trosterud, T., & Antonsen, L. (2018). Building a Constraint Grammar Parser for Plains Cree Verbs and Arguments. In N. Calcolari (Conference chair), K. Choukri, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, K. Hasida, … T. Tokunaga (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), 2981-8. Miyazaki, Japan: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

2017

Harrigan, A. G., Schmirler, K., Arppe, A., Antonsen, L., Trosterud, T., & Wolvengrey, A. (2017). Learning from the computational modelling of Plains Cree verbs. Morphology, 27(4), 565-598.

2016

Schmirler, K. (2016). Acoustic characteristics of preaspirated stops in Plains Cree. Canadian Acoustics, 44(3), 142-3.

Presentations

2021

Schmirler, K. (2021). Topicality, overt participants, and the Algonquian Person Hierarchy: A Plains Cree corpus study. Paper presented at the 53rd Algonquian Conference at Carleton University [hosted online], October 14-17, 2021. Video. Slides.

Schmirler, K., & Arppe, A. (2021). Plains Cree textual analysis with PCA: Across the Bloomfield and Ahenakew-Wolfart subcorpora. Paper presented at the 53rd Algonquian Conference at Carleton University [hosted online], October 14-17, 2021. Video. Slides.

Schmirler, K., Genee, I., & Arppe, A. (2021). Grammatical descriptions for computational morphology: A first look at Blackfoot morphophonological modelling. Paper presented at the 53rd Algonquian Conference at Carleton University [hosted online], October 14-17, 2021. Video. Slides.

2020

Schmirler, K. (2020). Infrequent morphosyntactic phenomena in Plains Cree: Bloomfield’s text collections and the Ahenakew-Wolfart corpus. Paper presented at the 52nd Algonquian Conference at UW Madision [hosted online], October 23-25, 2020. Video. Slides.

Schmirler, K., & Arppe, A. (2020). A quantitative look at Plains Cree text types: âtayôhkêwina vs. âcimowina in Bloomfield’s texts and âcimisowina vs. kakêskihkêmowina in the Ahenakew-Wolfart corpus. Paper presented at the 52nd Algonquian Conference at UW Madision [hosted online], October 23-25, 2020. Video. Slides.

2019

Arppe, A., Santos, E. A., Harrigan, A. G., Schmirler, K., & Wolvengrey, A. (2019). Towards a morphologically intelligent online dictionary of Plains Cree. Paper presented at the 51st Algonquian Conference at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, October 25-27, 2019.

Arppe, A., Schmirler, K., Santos, E. A., & Wolvengrey, A. (2019). Towards a systematic and quantitative identification of sound change rules: Algonquian historical linguistics meets Optical Character Recognition evaluation. Paper presented at the 51st Algonquian Conference at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, October 25-27, 2019.

Schmirler, K. (2019). Negation in a Plains Cree corpus. Paper presented at the 51st Algonquian Conference at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, October 25-27, 2019.

Schmirler, K., & Arppe, A. (2019). Plains Cree actors and goals: Across time periods and genres. Paper presented at the 51st Algonquian Conference at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, October 25-27, 2019.

Schmirler, K., & Arppe, A. (2019). Modelling Plains Cree negation with Constraint Grammar. Paper presented at the Constraint Grammar Workshop held at the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2019) at the University of Turku in Turku, Finland, September 30-October 2, 2019.

2018

Schmirler, K., & Arnhold, A. (2018). Acoustic correlates of stress in Maskwacîs Plains Cree. Paper presented at the 50th Algonquian Conference at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, October 28-30, 2018.

Arppe, A., Harrigan, A. G., Schmirler, K., & Wolvengrey, A. (2018). itwêwina: A morphologically intelligent online dictionary for Plains Cree. Paper presented at the 25th Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta, June 7-9, 2018.

Littlechild, M. J., Wildcat, L., Roasting, J., Simon, H., Lee, A., Makinaw, A., Rowan, R., Makinaw. R., Kisikaw, Simon, B., Lightning, B., Lee, B., Oldpan, L., Buffalo, M., Young, D., Raine, I., Mackinaw, P., Saddleback, N. L., Makinaw, R., Harrigan, H., Schmirler, K., Bowers, D., Bontogon, M., Giesbrecht, L., Johnson, P., Mills, T., Lachler, J., & Arppe, A. (2018). Towards a spoken dictionary of Maskwacîs Cree. Paper presented at the 25th Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS) at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta, June 7-9, 2018.

Schmirler, K., Arppe, A., Trosterud, T., & Antonsen, L. (2018). Building a Constraint Grammar parser for Plains Cree. Poster & demonstration presented at the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) in Miyazaki, Japan, May 7-12, 2018.

2017

Arppe, A., Schmirler, K., Harrigan, A. G., & Wolvengrey, A. (2017). A morphosyntactically tagged corpus for Plains Cree. Paper presented at the 49th Algonquian Conference in Montreal, QC, 27-29 October, 2017.

Arppe, A., Schmirler, K., Silfverberg, M., Hulden, M., & Wolvengrey, A. (2017). Expanding the coverage of a computational model for an endangered language with a derivational component - the case of Plains Cree. Paper presented at the 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference in Birmingham, UK, 24-28 July, 2017.

Schmirler, K., Arppe, A., Trosterud, T., & Antonsen, L., (2017). Computational modelling of Plains Cree syntax: A Constraint Grammar approach to verbs and arguments in a Plains Cree corpus. Paper presented at the 49th Algonquian Conference in Montreal, QC, 27-29 October, 2017.

Schmirler, K, Harrigan, A. G., Arppe, A., & Wolvengrey, A. (2017). A morphologically tagged corpus for Plains Cree. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Prairie Workshop on Language and Linguistics (PWoLL) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, March 18, 2017.

2016

Schmirler, K., Harrigan, A. G., Arppe, A., & Wolvengrey, A. (2016). Plains Cree verbal derivational morphology: A corpus investigation. Paper presented at the 48th Algonquian Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 13-16, 2016.

Harrigan, A. G., Schmirler, K., & Arppe, A. (2016). Lexical subtypes in a Plains Cree corpus. Paper presented at the 48th Algonquian Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 13-16, 2016.

Arppe, A., Schmirler, K., & Silfverberg, M. (2016). Computational modelling of the derivational morphology of Plains Cree verb stems. Paper presented at the 48th Algonquian Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 13-16, 2016.

Schmirler, K. (2016). Acoustic characteristics of preaspirated stops in Plains Cree. Paper presented at Acoustics Week in Canada 2016 in Vancouver, British Columbia, September 21-23, 2016.

Arppe, A., Harrigan, A. G., & Schmirler, K. (2016). So similar in principle, but so different in practice: Mixing texts, elicitation, and experimentation in the study of the Plains Cree independent and conjunct verb constructions. 2nd Workshop on New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation (NWASV2) in Ghent, Belgium, May 19-20, 2016.

Schmirler, K. & Harrigan, A. G. (2016). Word Class Frequencies According to Corpora. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Prairie Workshop on Language and Linguistics (PWoLL) in Regina, Saskatchewan, March 5, 2016.

Harrigan, A., Antonsen, L., Arppe, A., Bowers, D., Schmirler, K., Trosterud, T., & Wolvengrey, A. (2016). Learning from the Computational Modeling of Plains Cree Verbs. Workshop on Computational methods for descriptive and theoretical morphology, 17th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 17-18, 2016.

2015

Schmirler, K. (2015). Algonquian quadrupeds: The origin and productivity of *-osw and its place in Algonquian prehistory. Paper presented at the 47th Algonquian Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 22-25, 2015.

2014

Karey-McKenna, F. & Schmirler, K. (2014). Syntax of Polysynthetic Languages: A Comparison of FDG and Minimalism with Respect to Plains Cree and Upper Tanana. Research presented at the Prairie Workshop on Language and Linguistics at the University of Brandon in Brandon, Manitoba, March 1, 2014.

Manuscripts

2022

Schmirler, K. (2022). Syntactic Features and Text Types in 20th Century Plains Cree: A Constraint Grammar Approach. [Unpublished PhD dissertation]. University of Alberta.

2017

Schmirler, K. (2017). Computational modelling of Plains Cree syntax: A Constraint Grammar approach to verbs and arguments in a Plains Cree corpus. [Unpublished PhD qualifying paper]. University of Alberta.