Books

Knight, D., S. Morris, L. Arman, J. Needs and M. Rees. 2021. Building a national corpus: a Welsh language case study. Palgrave Macmillan.

Cooper, S. and L. Arman (Eds.). 2020. Cyflwyniad i ieithyddiaeth. [An introduction to linguistics]. E-book. Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol.

  • Rhan 1 Cyflwyniad [Part 1 Introduction] with Dr Sarah Cooper.
  • Rhan 3 Strwythur geiriau: morffoleg a geirfa [Part 3 Word structure: morphology and lexicon] with Dr Silva Nurmio.
  • Rhan 4 Cystrawen [Part 4 Syntax].
  • Rhan 5 Ystyr [Part 5 Meaning] with Dr Silva Nurmio.
  • Rhan 7 Amlieithrwydd [Part 7 Multilingualism] with Dr Sarah Cooper and Dr Peredur Webb-Davies.

Papers

Written

Corcoran, P., G. Palmer, L. Arman, I. Spasic and D. Knight. 2021. Creating Welsh-Language Word Embeddings. Applied Sciences
Arman L. In prep. Unaccusativity in Welsh verbs.
Review paper
Arman, Laura. 2013. “Review of: Alexiadou, Artemis, and Florian Schäfer (eds.). 2013. Non-Canonical Passives Amsterdam: John Benjamins.” http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-4492.html

Presentations

Invited Talks
2016. Impersonal morphology and verb classes. Invited talk at Bristol Centre for Linguistics Seminar Series, UWE, 23rd November 2016.
2015. Passives in linguistic theory: data from Welsh. Langwidge Sandwidge, University of Manchester.

Research training output

My ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre-funded PhD was on the Welsh Impersonal Construction and was supervised by Dr Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Prof John Payne and Dr George Walkden. This project focuses on describing the syntactic and semantics affects of Welsh impersonal morphology (mainly the most frequently used present/future -ir and past -wyd forms) in Modern Welsh by investigating restrictions to its use. You can read the thesis here.

By looking at Welsh verbs by semantic group or 'class', I have been able to identify certain restrictions on the impersonal morphology. These restrictions are very few and do not encompass entire potential semantic or syntactic classes, but include, for instance, a subset of one-argument measure verbs like cost, and one-argument verbs with inanimate subjects. My data suggest, at least, that syntactic frameworks should be able to deal with restrictions on one and two-place verbs/predicates separately and I attempt to address how some frameworks might take this into account in my thesis.

As a native speaker of Welsh working on semantics, my data-gathering methodology included searching the internet for examples and testing some of the weirder ones on other native speakers. This took the form of an online grammaticality-judgement questionnaire, complete with contexts, the necessary consent forms and detailed instructions, along with a comments box for each example, which yielded some interesting feedback! I will publish the (anonymous) results in a paper on the argument structure of impersonalized verbs

MA Thesis

My Masters thesis, supervised by Prof Eva Schultze-Berndt was on the typology of Welsh spatial prepositions and posture verbs. You can download it here, but you'll have to excuse the formatting.
'Static Spatial Expressions in Welsh' MA Thesis. University of Manchester. 2010. Please e-mail before using data from this thesis.