Jessica Coon
Jessica Coon | |
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| Fields | Syntax, indigenous languages |
| Thesis | Complementation in Chol (Mayan): A Theory of Split Ergativity (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Pesetsky |
| Website | jessica |
Jessica Coon is a professor of linguistics at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in syntax and indigenous languages. She was the linguistics expert consultant for the 2016 film Arrival.
Coon works on ergativity, split ergativity, case and agreement, nominalization, field methodology, and collaborative language work in Ch'ol and Chuj (Mayan) and Mi'gmaq (Algonquian).