Welcome

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, supervised by Susana Béjar. I am broadly interested in syntax, semantics, linguistic fieldwork, and language revitalization.

I received my Ph.D from the Department of Linguistics at McGill University, under the supervision of Jessica Coon and Luis Alonso-Ovalle. While there, I was a member of the Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics (MULL) lab. Prior to that, I did my BA at the University of British Columbia.

My current research interests revolve around questions of tense, aspect, mood, argument structure, and verbal syntax. My research primarily engages with these and other aspects of Ktunaxa [ktu.ˈnʌ.χa], a language isolate spoken in the Columbia River Basin, and Kanien’kéha, an Iroquoian language spoken in Ontario, Quebec, and New York.

You can contact me at: terrance [dot] gatchalian [at] utoronto [dot] ca.