Wesley Jones
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Anthropological Linguistics Group, working with John Mansfield on the ERC project "Conceptual Diversity and the Evolution of Abstract Thought" (CONCEVO). I have a background in language documentation and description, particularly with the Hurukui (Wasembo) language of Papua New Guinea. In my dissertation, I used quantitative methods to investigate gradience among synchronic categories in the language's system of light verb constructions. I have also studied gradience among irrealis-like categories cross-linguistically using semantic maps. I take an emergentist, construction-based approach to linguistic structure and form-meaning mappings, and I take a gradient, clustering-based approach to categorization.
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