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Brown, Colin. Questions and their relatives in Sm'algyax. International Journal of American Linguistics, 90(3), 2024.
Brown, Colin. Conjectural questions in Sm'algyax. Folia Linguistica, 2024.
Brown, Colin. Irrealis marked interrogatives as negative rhetorical questions. Open Linguistics, 9(1), 2023.
Elkins, Noah, and Colin Brown. Free relative clauses in Mam. To appear in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas 26.
Brown, Colin. Polar questions in Sm'algyax. To appear in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas 26.
Colin Brown. Clause typing and clitic linearization in Gitksan. In Ella Hannon, Brian Diep, Laura Griffin, Mila Loginova, Bruce Oliver, Lauren Schneider, Reed Steiner, and Bailey Trotter (eds.), Papers for the 60th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, pp. 17–37. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics, 2025.
Colin Brown and Henry Davis. A second-last position clitic in Sm’algyax (Coast Tsimshian). Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society.
Colin Brown and Henry Davis. A second-last position clitic in Sm'algyax: a puzzle. In M. Ryan Bochnak, Eva Csipak, Lisa Matthewson, Marcin Morzycki, and Daniel K. E. Reisinger (eds.), The title of this volume is shorter than its contributions are allowed to be: Papers in honour of Hotze Rullmann. Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 2024.
Henry Davis and Colin Brown. A second-last position clitic in Sm'algyax: a solution. In M. Ryan Bochnak, Eva Csipak, Lisa Matthewson, Marcin Morzycki, and Daniel K. E. Reisinger (eds.), The title of this volume is shorter than its contributions are allowed to be: Papers in honour of Hotze Rullmann. Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 2024.
Colin Brown, Clarissa Forbes, and Michael David Schwan. Clause-type, transitivity, and the transitive vowel in Tsimshianic. In Daniel K. E. Reisinger, Hannah Green, Marianne Huijsmans, Gloria Mellesmoen, and Bailey Trotter (eds.), Papers for the 55th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, pp. 12–40. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics, 2020.
Colin Brown. Revisiting syntactic ergativity in Gitksan. In Megan Keough, Natalie Weber, Andrei Anghelescu, Sihwei Chen, Erin Guntly, Khia Johnson, Daniel Reisinger, and Oksana Tkachman (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas 21. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018.
Brown, Colin, and Henry Davis. A second-last position clitic in Sm'algyax (Coast Tsimshian). Presented at The 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS). MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2024.
Elkins, Noah, and Colin Brown. Headless relative clauses in Mam. Presented at Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 2023. McGill University, Montréal, QC, 2023.
Brown, Colin. Variable interrogative flip in Sm'algyax evidential questions. Invited talk: UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle. Berkeley, CA, 2022.
Brown, Colin. Irrealis-marked interrogatives as negative rhetorical questions. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Language and Culture. Workshop “Non-canonical interrogatives across languages: prosody, semantics, pragmatics”, Tartu, Estonia. May 12-13, 2022.
Brown, Colin, Zhuo Chen, Matthew Czuba, Blake Lehman, Harold Torrence. The Inventory of Polar Question Types in Dschang. The Annual Conference on African Linguistics 53. University of California, San Diego. April 7-9, 2022.
Brown, Colin, Harold Torrence. Analyzing predicate focus doubling in Dschang. 10th World Congress of African Linguistics. University of Leiden. June 7-12, 2021.
Brown, Colin. Interrogative mood marking in Sm'algyax. Linguistics Society of America 2020. New Orleans, LA. January 2-5, 2020.
Brown, Colin. The form and function of interrogatives in Sm’algyax. PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2024.
Brown, Colin. Extraction restrictions in Gitksan. MA thesis, McGill University, 2016.