Together with Chelsea Sanker (Stanford), AnderBois published a new paper "Reconstruction of nasality and other aspects of A’ingae phonology" in Cadernos de Etnolingüística. Since A'ingae is an isolate language (one with no known related languages), the most common historical linguistic method is unavailable. However, Sanker and AnderBois show that by using morphological evidence and evidence from statistical tendencies within the lexicon, we can make substantial progress in understanding the language's prehistory.

 

AnderBois' second new paper was co-written with Brown undergraduate alum Maks Dąbkowski '19.5 (now a PhD student at Berkeley). The paper, titled "The Semantics and Expression of Apprehensional Modality" appears in the most recent issue of Language and Linguistics Compass. Like all articles in this journal, it is an invited survey of the state of the art on a given topic for a broad audience of linguists. In this case, AnderBois and Dąbkowski look at apprehensional modality: the grammatical encoding of negative prospective emotions like fear and avoidance (i.e. more grammaticized versions of things like English "lest" in a sentence like "I took a rifle lest a jaguar eat me").