About Me
As a linguist, I am interested in all aspects of language, however, my research focuses primarily on Morphology and its interfaces to syntax and phonology. Currently I am focussing on the morphological exponence of tense and aspect where there appears to be instances of polarity. In addition to morphology and syntax, I am also interested in experimental work and how speakers parse/compute complex and, sometimes ambiguous, morphosyntacitc information.
I am a native English speaker, but I also have a high proficiency of German (C1). I have a good knowledge of French (B2), however my speaking level has unfortunately decreased over the past couple of years. I also have basic knowledge of Spanish, Dutch and Swedish.
Current Positions
PhD Student Institute of Linguistics, Leipzig Univeristy
January 2023 - present
Topic: Morphosyntacitc approaches to polarity.
Funded by the Hans-Boeckler-Stiftung
Research Assistant, Pre-Doc Award, University of Leipzig
December 2023 - present
The programme aims to help young researchers gain doctoral funding.
You can find more information here
Papers and Presentations
Publications
- Cummins, M. 2024. Subcategorisation of Creek Intranstive Reduplication. In M. Tănase-Dogaru, A. Tigău and I. Stoicescu (Eds.), Crosslinguistic Approaches to Language Analysis (pp. 279-299). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Cummins, M. and Carol Fehringer. submitted. Verbal Paradigm Variation in North East English: When is levelling not levelling?
Presentations
- Cummins, M and Carol Fehringer. Levelling versus Flipping in Tyneside English Strong Verbs. Presented at the 10th meeting of Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW), October 2023.John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin, Poland.Slides
- Cummins, M. Tense Interpretation Ambiguities in Tyneside English. Presented at the International Conference on Tense and Aspect in Conditionals (ICTAC), November 2022. INALCO, Paris, France. Slides
- Cummins, M. Subcategorisation of Creek Intransitive Reduplication. Presented at the 23rd Annual International Conference of the English Department, University Bucharest (AICED 23), June 2022. University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania [online]. Slides
Manuscripts
- Cummins, M.(2021). A Prosodic Account of Creek (Muskogee) Reduplication. (Unpublished M.A. Dissertation), Leipzig University.
Contact
Send me an email at:
firstname.lastname[at]uni[dash]leipzig[dot]de