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Will Oxford is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on theoretical and descriptive syntax and morphology, particularly in Algonquian languages, with an emphasis on agreement systems, morphosyntactic alignment, and historical linguistics. He has conducted fieldwork on Innu, Ojibwe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Kapampangan, and Ilocano. He is collaborating on preparing the late David Pentland's Proto-Algonquian dictionary for publication and co-authoring a forthcoming book The Algonquian Inverse (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Research interests include direct-inverse systems, agreement hierarchies, grammatical relations, inflectional morphology, language description, and phonology. He has held a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2016-19) for research on structure and change in Algonquian agreement systems. He teaches at the University of Manitoba and has held an invited teaching position at MIT (2022-23).
Key publications include analyses of inverse agreement in Algonquian languages, person hierarchy interactions, and morphological processes like fission and impoverishment. His work spans syntactic theory, historical linguistics, and language documentation, with particular attention to comparative analyses across Algonquian languages.
