Jessica Coon

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Jessica Coon
Scientific career
Alma mater
FieldsSyntax, indigenous languages
ThesisComplementation in Chol (Mayan): A Theory of Split Ergativity (2010)
Doctoral advisorDavid Pesetsky
Websitejessica.lingspace.org

Jessica Coon is a professor of linguistics at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in syntax and indigenous languages.[1] She was the linguistics expert consultant for the 2016 film Arrival.[2][3]

Coon works on ergativity, split ergativity, case and agreement, nominalization, field methodology, and collaborative language work in Ch'ol and Chuj (Mayan) and Mi'gmaq (Algonquian).[4]

Early life and education

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Coon received her PhD from MIT in 2010 with a dissertation on aspect-based split ergativity, with a focus on the Ch'ol (Mayan) language, and cross-linguistic extensions.[5]

Coon received her BA in linguistics-anthropology from Reed College in May 2004.[6]

Career

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Coon teaches linguistics to both graduate and undergraduate students at McGill University.[7]

In 2011, she began collaborating with language teachers in the Mi’gmaq Listuguj community, in order to document, research, and develop teaching materials for Mi’gmaq, a First Nations language of Quebec.[8]

Coon was consulted during the finalization of the script for Denis Villeneuve's Arrival for her linguistics expertise.[9] She wrote a piece for the Museum of the Moving Image on fieldwork and alien grammars, following her work on Arrival.[10]

Since 2018, Coon has led a National Geographic project "to record, transcribe, and translate narratives across different dialects of Ch'ol."[11]

Key publications

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  • Coon, Jessica and Lauren Clemens (2018). 'Deriving verb-initial word order in Mayan.' Language, 94,2: 237–280.
  • Coon, Jessica (2017). Ch’ol. The Mayan Languages, eds. Judith Aissen, Nora England, and Roberto Zavala. London: Routledge.[12]
  • Coon, Jessica, Pedro Mateo Pedro, and Omer Preminger (2014). 'The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries: Evidence from Mayan.' Linguistic Variarion, 14,2: 179–242.
  • Coon, Jessica (2013). Aspects of Split Ergativity. New York: Oxford University Press.[13]

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