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Brown, Colin. Extraction restrictions in Gitksan. MA thesis, McGill University, 2016.
Brown, Colin. Questions and their relatives in Sm'algyax. To appear in International Journal of American Linguistics.
Brown, Colin. Conjectural questions in Sm'algyax. Folia Linguistica, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2023-2051.
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.
Brown, Colin and Henry Davis. A second-last position clitic in Sm'algyax: a puzzle. In Bochnak, M. Ryan, Csipak, Eva, Matthewson, Lisa, Morzycki, Marcin, and Reisinger, Daniel K. E., editors, The title of this volume is shorter than its contributions are allowed to be: Papers in honour of Hotze Rullmann, volume 9. Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 2023.
Davis, Henry and Colin Brown. A second-last position clitic in Sm'algyax: a solution. In Bochnak, M. Ryan, Csipak, Eva, Matthewson, Lisa, Morzycki, Marcin, and Reisinger, Daniel K. E., editors, The title of this volume is shorter than its contributions are allowed to be: Papers in honour of Hotze Rullmann, volume 9. Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 2023.
Brown, Colin, Clarissa Forbes, and Michael David Schwan. Clause-type, Transitivity, and the Transitive Vowel in Tsimshianic. In Reisinger, D. K. E., Green, Hannah, Huijsmans, Marianne, Mellesmoen, Gloria, and Trotter., Bailey, editors, Papers for the 55th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, pages 12-40. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics, 2020.
Brown, Colin. Revisiting syntactic ergativity in Gitksan. In Keough, Megan, Weber, Natalie, Anghelescu, Andrei, Chen, Sihwei, Guntly, Erin, Johnson, Khia, Reisinger, Daniel, and Tkachman, Oksana, editors, 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.