Current Projects
- Kinchsular, Patrick. External possession in Kinyarwanda: A tale of two applicatives. Paper Presentation at the Canadian Linguistics Association 2024 Annual Meeting. June 16th, 2024. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- Ndayragije, Juvénal & Kinchsular, Patrick. A comparative analysis of transitive expletive constructions in Kirundi and Germanic. Paper Presentation at the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. May 4th, 2024. McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
- Kinchsular, Patrick. Morphological Alternation in Kinyarwanda External Possession Constructions. Presentation at the seventh annual meeting of Morphology in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. October 27th, 2023. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- Ndayragije, Juvénal & Kinchsular, Patrick. TECs: A View from Kirundi. Presentation at the Language Association of East Africa 3rd Annual Conference. July 20th, 2023. Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
- Kinchsular, Patrick; McFadden, Liam; Meanwell, Lucy; Nilsson, Annika; Ozburn, Avery. Language profiles for phonetics and phonology teaching. Presentation at the University of Toronto Summer Phonetics / Phonology Forum. July 5th, 2023. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- Kinchsular, Patrick. Phonosemantic conditioning in Kirundi loanword noun class allocation. Poster Presentation at the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. June 13th, 2023. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
- Lima, Suzi; Keith-Hill, Colin; Kinchsular, Patrick; Oliver, Mikayla. Counting portions of substances. Paper Presentation at the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. June 12th, 2023. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
- Kinchsular, Patrick. Number morphology in Kirundi partitive constructions. Invited talk at the University of Toronto’s panel on Number and Structure. April 14th, 2023. Univerity of Toronto, Toronto,Canada.
- Kinchsular, Patrick. Semantic effects on Kirundi loanword phonology. Paper Presentation at the Canadian Linguistics Association 2023 Annual Meeting. May 31st, 2023. York University, Toronto, Canada.
- Kinchsular, Patrick. Semantic constraints in Kirundi phonology. Presentation at the 16th Annual Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference. March 5th, 2023. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- Kinchsular, Patrick. Individuation and partition in Kirundi. Presentation at the 4th annual Confluence Cognitive Science Research Conference. February 11th, 2023. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- Tagliamonte, Sali; Kinchsular, Patrick; Wu, Mechelle. Obsolescence and innovation: English dialects of the Lake Superior north shore. Presentation at the American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2023. January 6th, 2023. Denver, Colorado.
- Kinchsular, Patrick & Oliver, Mikayla. Examining The Mass/Count Distinction in Kirundi and Tshiluba. Presentation at the 15th Annual Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference. March 6th, 2022. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- Lima, Suzi; Kinchsular, Patrick; Lin, Naim; Oliver, Mikayla; Rolfe, Hannah. Count and Mass Interpretations of Quantifiers in Kirundi and Tshiluba. Virtual presentation at the 9th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop. December 3rd, 2021. Zevenwacht Wine Estate, Cape Town, South Africa.
- Kinchsular, Patrick. Examining the Mass/Count Distinction in Kirundi Through Classifier Constructions. Poster Presentation at the Research Opportunities Program Online Poster Fair Summer 2021 Showcase. September 29th, 2021. Univerity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Papers
- Kinchsular, Patrick. In press. Phonosemantic conditioning in Kirundi loanword noun class allocation. Working papers in Applied Linguistics and Linguistics at York, Volume 3.