Aoife Finn
Contact Information
Email: finnao@tcd.ie
Website: https://tcd.academia.edu/AoifeFinn
Address: Centre for Language and Communication Studies,
Arts Building,
Trinity College Dublin,
College Green,
Dublin 2
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Research Interests
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Te Reo Māori, Case-system and Grammatical Relations, Ergativity, Accusativity, Unergativity and Unaccusativity, Reflexivity, Anaphora, Syntax, Role and Reference Grammar.
Current Projects
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Thesis: Case-system and Grammatical Relations in Māori through a Role and Reference Grammar Model (working title).
Publications
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Finn, A (2015). The argument realisation of GIVE and TAKE verbs in Māori. Causation, Permission, and Transfer. Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs, Edited by Brian Nolan, Gudrun Rawoens and Elke Diedrichsen.
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Finn, A (2012). Review of - Nolan, Brian. 2012. The Structure of Modern Irish. A Functional Account. Equinox. Folia Linguistica -The peer-reviewed journal of the Societas Linguistica Europaea.
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Finn, A (2012). Headedness in Māori Reflexivity: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis. ITB Journal.
Conference presentations
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Finn, A (2015, Sept).The role of agentivity in Māori neuter verbs. Presented at The 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Finn, A (2014, Sept). Māori Reflexivization – Possessive-reflexives and Intra-sentential Pronominalization. Presented at The 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Poznan, Poland. Awarded 2nd prize for best poster presentation.
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Finn, A (2014, July). Towards the meaning and realization of Māori neuter verbs. Presented at The 3rd International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation in Valencia, Spain.
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Finn, A (2013, August). Adherence to Conditions on Reflexivization in Māori. Presented at The 12th Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) in Freiburg, Germany.
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Finn, A (2013, May). Complex Issues in the realisation of GIVE and TAKE verbs in Māori. Presented at The 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics in Reykjavik, Iceland.