We’re very happy to share the news that recent alum Shay Hucklebridge has received two highly competitive grants to support her fieldwork on the Dene languages of Northern Canada.

Shay was selected for both a Jacobs Research Fund grant (for $4077) and a grant from the Phillips Fund for Native American Research (for $3200). This is in addition to the $115,000 SSHRC postdoctoral research fellowship that Shay was awarded last year, and which continues to fund her scholarship at Memorial University in Newfoundland.

This summer, Shay will be conducting fieldwork on the Northern Dene languages of the Mackenzie Subgroup, including Tlicho Yatii, Sahtúgot’iné, K’ashógot’ine, and Shíhgot’ine. The project will be focusing upon the the languages’ future-marking morphology, and the possible variation in their semantics, as either temporal operators or modal operators.

Please join us in congratulating Shay!