You can download a PDF of my CV here: download. You can also view the most recent version of my CV in Google docs here.

My most recent presentations and publications are listed here.


Presentations

2026

Peer-reviewed

“The semantics of White Hmong (in)definiteness.” [Poster]. TripleA. May 12-15. Vancouver, Canada.

“Anaphora and R-expression interaction.” [Talk]. Rules and Exceptions in Anaphoric Processing (RED). May 21-22. Brașov, Romania. [Slides]

“Variation of w~v in Cook Islands Māori: A statistical approach.” [Talk]. The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, special Te reo Māori session. Wellington, New Zealand. [Slides]

Sally Akevai Nicholas, Rolando Coto-Solano, Quartz Colvin, Gwendolyn Tait, Violet King. “Using Automatic Speech Recognition for documentation of Cook Island Māori. [Talk]. The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, special Te reo Māori session. Wellington, New Zealand. [Slides]

Other Presentations

“Anaphora and R-expression interaction: Insights from Hmong.” RULing 2026.

“Vowel epenthesis in Cheyenne verb initials.” [Talk]. Language at Crossroads. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.


Upcoming…

Ake Nicholas, Rolando Coto Solano, Jean Tekura Mason, Gwendolyn Tait, Violet King, Quartz Colvin, Freya Scott, Peter Nicholas. “A dictionary of the function words of Māori ꞌAvaiki Nui and some ongoing orthographic tensions in “paradise””. Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 2026 (NZLingSoc2026). December 7-8. Wellington, New Zealand.


2025

Peer-reviewed

“The Cheyenne Potential, Irrealis and Conditional Modes.” [Poster]. Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM 11). John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

“A cover analysis of the plural classifier in Hmong.” [Talk]. Sinn und Bedeutung 30. Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany. [Slides]

“The semantics of Hmong indefinites.” [Talk]. International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland. [Slides]

“The syntax of White Hmong reciprocals and reflexives.” [Poster]. Mismatches in Anaphoric Relations (RED). Universität Graz, Graz, Austria.

Other Presentations

“The semantics of Hmong (in)definiteness.” RULing 2025.


2024

“The Cheyenne Potential, Irrealis and Conditional Modes.” [Poster]. Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.


Publications

2026

Quartz Colvin. “White Hmong Reciprocals and Reflexives.” In RED-2025 Proceedings, Mismatches in Anaphoric Relations, University Library Graz.

Quartz Colvin. “A cover analysis of the plural classifier in Hmong.” In: Sebastian Walter, Lennart Fritzsche, Kurt Erbach, Cécile Meier, and Manfred Sailer (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 30. Frankfurt: Goethe University Frankfurt, 221–231.


2025

Avelino, G., Balihaxi, M., Colvin, Q., Czarnecki, V., Joo, H., Wang, C., Zobarlar, U., Jardine, A. & McCollum, A., (2025) “Editors’ Note”, Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/amphonology.3007


Upcoming…

(under review). Quartz Colvin. “The Cheyenne Potential, Irrealis and Conditional Modes.” To appear in Proceedings of SULA 13.

(Under review). Quartz Colvin. “Anaphora and R-expression Interaction.” To appear in RED-2026 Proceedings, University Library Graz.

(Under review). Quartz Colvin. “Variation of w-v in Cook Islands Māori: A statistical approach.” To appear in Te Reo.

(Under review). Sally Akevai Nicholas, Rolando Coto-Solano, Quartz Colvin, Gwendolyn Tait, Violet King. “Using Automatic Speech Recognition for documentation of Cook Islands Māori.” To appear in Te Reo.

(Under contract). “Phonological domains in Algonquian and other morphologically complex languages.” Includes eight invited chapters on Algonquian languages and five invited chapters on other morphologically complex languages. Oxford University Press.

  • Contributor for the following chapters: “Insights from Algonquian”, “Theoretical Insights”, “Cheyenne”