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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Dr Katherine Hodgson

Dr Katherine Hodgson
Position(s): 
Research Associate
Department/Section: 
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Contact details: 
Location: 

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Raised Faculty Building
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
United Kingdom

About: 

Katherine Hodgson’s research interests include syntax, information structure, linguistic typology, historical linguistics, dialectology, and language documentation, particularly in connection with Armenian and Greek. She has worked on the syntax of the noun phrase and the clause in Eastern Armenian, and her PhD thesis, supervised by Professor Anaïd Donabédian (INALCO), was on the syntax and typology of relative clauses in colloquial spoken Armenian. She is currently working on an ELDP-funded project documenting Zok, an endangered variety of Armenian, and has also conducted extensive fieldwork on other dialects of Armenian and Greek, including Pontic Greek as spoken in Armenia. She is also working on a corpus-based study of word order and information structure in Eastern Armenian, together with colleagues from INALCO (Paris).

Research interests: 

Syntax, information structure, historical linguistics, language documentation, Armenian, Modern Greek

Recent research projects: 

A Documentation of the Zok Language (ELDP)

Topicality and the shaping of grammar: New perspectives from lesser-known languages (INALCO, SeDyL)

Published works: 
  • Hodgson, Katherine. 2022. Grammaticalization of the definite article in Armenian. Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies 1, https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/armeniaca/2022/1/grammaticalization-of-the-definite-article-in-arme/?fbclid=IwAR28G0zVQncBxfsI1pCVYT07_f1ZQQyMTTlidWPv5ZjvsQ8AyKGgqjofoW0
  • Hodgson, Katherine. 2022. Non-syntactic factors and accessibility to relativization: evidence from Armenian. Linguistics, doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0035
  • Hodgson, Katherine & Victoria Khurshudyan. 2022. Word order and information structure. In Christiane Bulut, Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan, Pollet Samvelian, Stavros Skopeteas, Nina Sumbatova (eds.), Glottothèque: Languages of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Mesopotamia; grammatical snippets online (electronic resource). Bamberg, Cambridge, Göttingen, Moscow, Nicosia, Paris: LACIM network.
  • Hodgson, Katherine. 2022. Determination and noun phrase structure. In Christiane Bulut, Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan, Pollet Samvelian, Stavros Skopeteas, Nina Sumbatova (eds.), Glottothèque: Languages of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Mesopotamia; grammatical snippets online (electronic resource). Bamberg,Cambridge, Göttingen, Moscow, Nicosia, Paris: LACIM network.
  • Hodgson, Katherine. 2022. Complex clauses. In Christiane Bulut, Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan, Pollet Samvelian, Stavros Skopeteas, Nina Sumbatova (eds.), Glottothèque: Languages of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Mesopotamia; grammatical snippets online (electronic resource). Bamberg, Cambridge, Göttingen, Moscow, Nicosia, Paris: LACIM network.
  • Hodgson, Katherine. 2020. Finite relative clauses in Eastern Armenian and the phenomenon of ‘inverse attraction’. Lingua 246: 102950
  • Hodgson, Katherine. 2019. Discourse Configurationality and the Noun Phrase in Eastern Armenian. Faits de Langues 50:2 137-166.
  • Hodgson, Katherine. 2010. Morphological Evidence for the Origins of a Pontic Greek Community in Armenia. Studies in Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki: Institute of Modern Greek Studies. 237-248.
  • Hodgson, Katherine, Victoria Khurshudyan & Pollet Samvelian (to appear) Post-predicate arguments in Modern Eastern Armenian. In Post-predicate elements in the Western Asia transition zone. A corpus-based approach to areal typology. Geoffrey Haig, Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand, Donald Stilo, Laurentia Schreiber, Nils Schiborr (eds.). Language Science Press.
  • Hodgson, Katherine, Victoria Khurshudyan & Anaïd Donabédian (to appear) Word order, anaphora, and topicality in Eastern Armenian. In Topicality and the shaping of grammar: New perspectives from lesser-known languages. Claudine Chamoreau, Anaïd Donabédian and Enrique Palancar (eds.).