Research Publications

• 2024. Clarissa Forbes. Tsimshianic. In The languages and linguistics of Indigenous North America, eds C. Jany, M. Mithun, K. Rice. De Gruyter. 985-1012. (lingbuzz)
• 2022. Clarissa Forbes, Farhan Samir, Bruce Oliver, Changbing Yang, Edith Coates, Garrett Nicolai, and Miikka Silfverberg. Dim Wihl Gat Tun: The Case for Linguistic Expertise in NLP for Underdocumented Languages. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022. 2116-2130.
• 2022. Bruce Oliver, Clarissa Forbes, Changbing Yang, Farhan Samir, Edith Coates, Garrett Nicolai, and Miikka Silfverberg. An Inflectional Database for Gitksan. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 6597–6606.
• 2021. Clarissa Forbes, Garrett Nicolai, and Miikka Silfverberg. An FST morphological analyzer for the Gitksan language. In Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. 188-197.
• 2021. Clarissa Forbes. Nominal types in Gitksan split-absolutive agreement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 39. 1087–1128. (lingbuzz)
• 2020. Colin Brown, Clarissa Forbes, and Michael David Schwan. Clause-type, transitivity, and the transitive vowel in Tsimshianic. In Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 55, UBCWPL. 12-40.
• 2019. Clarissa Forbes. The structure of transitivity in Gitksan. In Papers for the 54th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, UBCWPL. 63-85.
• 2019. Clarissa Forbes. Number, names, and animacy: Noun classes and plural interactions in Gitksan. In Mathieu et al. (eds.), Gender and noun classification, Oxford University Press. 203-233. (preprint)
• 2018. Clarissa Forbes. On binding in Gitksan. In Wa7 xweysás i nqwal’utteníha i ucwalmícwa: He loves the people’s languages. Essays in honour of Henry Davis, UBCOPL 6. 111-126. (preprint)
• 2018. Clarissa Forbes. Persistent ergativity: Agreement and splits in Tsimshianic. PhD thesis, University of Toronto.
• 2018. Clarissa Forbes. Extraction morphosyntax and wh-agreement in Gitksan: The case for accusativity. In Proceedings of the 2017 Canadian Linguistic Association, Ryerson University.
• 2017. Clarissa Forbes. Persistent ergativity and split absolutive agreement in Gitksan. In Lamont, A. and K. Tetzloff, Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society 2, GLSA. 11-24. (preprint)
• Lost in press (2017). Clarissa Forbes. Consequences of long-distance extraction morphology in Gitksan. In Proceedings of WSCLA 21, UBCWPL. (preprint)
• 2017. Clarissa Forbes, Henry Davis, Michael Schwan, and the UBC Gitksan Research Laboratory. Three Gitksan texts. In Proceedings of the 52nd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, UBCWPL. 47-89.
• 2015. Henry Davis and Clarissa Forbes. Connect Four! The morphosyntax of argument marking in Tsimshianic. In Proceedings of the 50th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, University of British Columbia. UBCWPL 40. 155-185.
• 2015. Clarissa Forbes. Gitksan root stress: Modeling the path to lexical accent. In Proceedings of WSCLA 19, UBCWPL 39. 79-93.
• 2014. Clarissa Forbes. On apparent nominal coordination in Gitksan. In Proceedings of the 2014 Canadian Linguistic Association, Brock University.
• 2013. Clarissa Forbes. Coordination and number in the Gitksan nominal domain. MA forum paper, University of Toronto.
• 2013. Clarissa Forbes. Associative plurality in the Gitksan nominal domain. In Proceedings of the 2013 Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Victoria. 1-13.
• 2012. Clarissa Forbes. Gitxsan adjectives: Evidence from nominal modification. In Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, UBCWPL 32. 49-68.

Manuscripts

• ‘Nit g̱anwilt: Thirty-six Gitksan stories. (as primary editor. Authors B. Sennott, H. Hill, V. Gogag. Other editors: Henry Davis, Michael David Schwan, UBC Gitksan Research Lab)
• Predicate raising and V1 orders in Interior Tsimshianic. (lingbuzz)
• On ergative agreement, case competition, and Agree. Squib