Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

Dr. Nicholas Rolle

Publications before the time at ZAS

Dissertation

2018. “Grammatical tone: Typology and theory”. PhD thesis, UC Berkeley. Available at: escholarship.org/uc/item/5ck8s48r

Refereed Journals

under review. Rolle, Nicholas & Lee Bickmore. 2019. “Outward-looking phonologically-conditioned allomorphy in Cilungu grammatical tone”.

under revision. Rolle, Nicholas. 2019. “Ubiquitous floating tone in Izon”.

Rolle, Nicholas, Florian Lionnet, & Matthew Faytak. 2020. Areal patterns in the vowel systems of the Macro-Sudan Belt. Linguistic Typology. 24(1).

Rolle, Nicholas. 2020. In support of an OT-DM model: Evidence from clitic distribution in Degema serial verb constructions. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 38:201-259.

Rolle, Nicholas & Donna Starks. 2014. Vowel length in Niuean. Oceanic Linguistics, 53(2): 273-299.

Massam, Diane, Josephine Lee, & Nicholas Rolle. 2006. Still a preposition: The category of ko. Te Reo [Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand], 49: 3-37.

Book Chapters

under revision. Rolle, Nicholas. “Stress uniformity and morphological complexity in Ese Ejja”. In Ksenia Bogomolets & Harry van der Hulst (eds.) Word Prominence in Morphologically Complex Languages.

in press. Hyman, Larry M., Hannah Sande, Florian Lionnet, Nicholas Rolle, & Emily Clem. Prosodic systems: Niger-Congo and adjacent areas. In Carlos Gussenhoven & Aoju Chen (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody. Oxford: OUP.

Hyman, Larry M., Nicholas Rolle, Hannah Sande, Emily Clem, Peter Jenks, Florian Lionnet, John Merrill, & Nicholas Baier. 2019. Niger-Congo linguistic features and typology. In H. Ekkehard Wolff (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook
of African Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 191-245.

Rolle, Nicholas & Marine Vuillermet. 2019. Morphologically assigned accent and an initial three syllable window in Ese’eja. In Rob Goedemans, Jeff Heinz, & Harry van der Hulst (Eds.) The Study of Word Stress and Accent: Theories, methods and data. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 361-386.

Proceedings (for refereed conferences)

Rolle, Nicholas & Florian Lionnet. 2020. Phantom structure: A representational account of floating tone association. In Hyunah Baek, Chikako Takahashi & Alex Hong-Lun Yeung (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.

Rolle, Nicholas & Zachary O’Hagan. 2019. Different Kinds of Second-Position Clitics in Caquinte. In D. K. E. Reisinger & Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo (eds.), Proceedings for the 23rd Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the
Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 23). Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL. 93-107.

Rolle, Nicholas & Larry M. Hyman. 2019. Phrase-level prosodic smothering in Makonde. In Katherine Hout, Anna Mai, Adam McCollum, Sharon Rose & Matt Zaslansky (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: LSA.

Rolle, Nicholas. 2018. Output-Output Correspondence via Agreement by Projection. In Sherry Hucklebridge & Max Nelson (eds.), NELS 48 Proceedings. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications.

Rolle, Nicholas. 2018. Transparadigmatic Output-Output Correspondence: A Case Study from Ese Ejja. In Gillian Gallagher, Maria Gouskova, & Sora Yin (eds.), Proceedings of the 2017 AMP. Washington, DC: LSA.

Rolle, Nicholas, Matthew Faytak, & Florian Lionnet. 2017. The Distribution of Advanced Tongue Root Harmony and Interior Vowels in the Macro-Sudan Belt. 2017 Proceedings of the LSA. Austin, Texas. 10:1-15.

Rolle, Nicholas. 2017. Rhythmic repair of morphological accent assigned outside of a metrical window. In Karen Jesney, Charlie O’Hara, Caitlin Smith, & Rachel Walker (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.

Rolle, Nicholas & Ethelbert E. Kari. 2016. Degema clitics and serial verb constructions at the syntax/phonology interface. In Doris L. Payne, Sara Pacchiarotti & Mokaya Bosire (eds.), Diversity in African languages, 141–163.
Berlin: Language Science Press.

Rolle, Nicholas. 2012. The Esan post-nominal pronoun construction. Selected proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 41). University of Toronto. Cambridge, MA: Cascadilla.

Reviews

Rolle, Nicholas & Larry M. Hyman. 2016. Review of Verbal serialisation in Isu (West-Ring) – a Grassfields language of Cameroon by Roland Kießling with the assistance of Bong Marcellus Wung. Köln: Köppe, 2011. Linguistic
Typology 20(3): 675-685.

OTHER PAPERS

Working Papers & Lab Reports

Rolle, Nicholas & Marine Vuillermet. 2016. “Morphologically assigned accent and an initial three syllable window in Ese’eja”. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report (2016). 196-215.

Rolle, Nicholas. 2013. “Nasal vowel patterns in West Africa”. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report (2013). 226-267. (M.A. level qualifying paper, University of California, Berkeley.)

Rolle, Nicholas. 2013. “Ese Ejja accent”. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report (2013). 268-280.

Rolle, Nicholas. 2013. “Phonetics and Phonology of Urhobo”. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report (2013). 281-326.

Rolle, Nicholas. 2009. “The Phonetic Nature of Niuean Vowel Length”. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 31.

Other manuscripts

In prep. Rolle, Nicholas, Keren Rice, & Irehobhude Iyioha, with M. Kenyon, K. Kim, A. Koren, E. Lawson, A. Lin, A. Meyers, J. Quintero, M. Radisic, & C. Waters. “A grammar of Esan: An Edoid language of Nigeria”

2018. “The use of ‘whose’ in inanimate contexts as post-syntactic feature-installing”. Unpublished snippet.

2015. “Iterative interrogative morphology as clause-level concord: Description and analysis of the question marker –sti in Aymara”

2012. “Evidence for heterogeneous origins of modern Esan language and identity”

2010. “On the syntactic distribution and morphological form of resumptive pronouns in Esan”. M.A. Qualifying Paper, University of Toronto.

EDITING

Rolle, Nicholas, John Sylak-Glassman, Jeremy Steffman (Eds.). 2016. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Leung, Herman, Zachary O’Hagan, Sarah Bakst, Auburn Lutzross, Jonathan Manker, Nicholas Rolle, Katie Sardinha (Eds.). 2014. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Connell, Bruce & Nicholas Rolle (Eds.). 2012. Selected Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Cambridge, MA: Cascadilla.