Publications, Presentations, and Posters

Publications:

Dissertation

Irish Mutation and Moroccan Arabic Root-and-Pattern Morphology: A Unified Account of Two Types of Nonconcatenative

Morphology  (Expected Spring 2027)

Peer-Reviewed

When Phase Heads Agree: ACC Case Assignment in the Arabic Left Periphery. (Under Revision). STAR.

(email me for a copy)

On Ā-"Complementizers" and WH-Operators in Modern Irish. (Under Review). NLLT.

(email me for a copy)

Duru, Ferdinand, and Pruett, Jack. (Under Review). Grammatical Tone in Igbo Verbs. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 2025).

(email me for a copy)

Peer-Reviewed by Abstract

Pruett, Jack. (2026a). Root-and-Pattern Morphology and Consonant Mutation: Are They Really Two Phenomena? In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology (2025).

Pruett, Jack. (2026b). The Morphosyntax of the Modern Irish Verb: Insights from Initial Consonant Mutation. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (2026).

Pruett, Jack. (2025a). Two Domains for Irish Stem-Initial Consonant Changes. In: Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2024).

Pruett, Jack. (2025b). WH-Operators and Multiple-Copy Spell-Out in Modern Irish. In: Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (2025).

Pruett, Jack. (2024). Where Mutation does not Occur—Mutation Blocking in Irish Gaelic and Evidence for DP Phases. In: Proceedings of CLS 59 (2023).

Pruett, Jack. (2023). Representing Irish Mutations in Distributed Morphology and Optimality Theory. In: Proceedings of CLS 58 (2022), 355-372.

Peer Reviewed (Non-linguistic Publications)

Stork, R., Cho, J., Nachbor, K., Sekhar, T., Pruett, J., Baim, A., Strul, S., Barsam, A., Langworthy, B., Waxman, E., & S. Culican. (2025).“But Why?”: Explanatory Feedback is a Reliable Marker of High-Quality Narrative Assessment of Surgical Performance. Academic Medicine.

Paley, G., Grove, R., Sekhar, T., Pruett, J., Stock, M., Pira, T., Shields, S., Waxman, E., Wilson, B., Gordon, M., & S. Culican. (2021). Crowdsourced Assessment of Surgical Skill Proficiency in Cataract Surgery.  Journal of Surgical Education 78(4): 1077-1088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.02.004

Not Peer Reviewed

Pruett, Jack. (2024). Phase Heads Assign ACC Case—A New Perspective on Case Assignment: Evidence from Irish and Arabic. MS. Georgetown University.

(Second Qualifying Paper)

Pruett, Jack. (2023). Irish Mutations in Distributed Morphology and Optimality Theory. MS, Georgetown University.

(Master's Research Paper and Qualifying Paper)

Grants:

Documenting Endangered Languages Grant from the National Science Foundation (Grant Number: 2450715)

Title: Documenting Endangered Languages: The Case for Awutu

PI: Michael Obiri-Yeboah (Georgetown)

Team Members: Cassandra Caragine (University of Maryland), Jack Gagon (Georgetown), Sophie Migacz (CUNY)

Posters:

Duru, Ferdinand & Jack Pruett (2026). Grammatical Tone in Igbo Multisyllabic Verbs. Presented at: The 57th Annual  Conference on African Linguistics.

Pruett, Jack. (2025). Root-and-Pattern Morphology and Consonant Mutation: Are They Really Two Phenomena? Presented at: The Annual Meeting on Phonology 2025.

Pruett, Jack. (2025). Root-and-Pattern Morphology and Consonant Mutation: Are They Really Two Phenomena? Presented at: 31st Manchester Phonology Meeting.

Duru, Ferdinand & Jack Pruett. (2025). Grammatical Tone in Igbo. Presented at: The 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.

Pruett, Jack. (2024).  Two Domains for Irish Stem-Initial Consonant Changes. Presented at: The Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America.

Pruett, Jack. (2023). Morphological Number in the Dagaare DP. Presented at: The 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.

Caragine, Cassandra, Migacz, Sophie, Pruett, Jack, & Michael Obiri-Yeboah. (2023). The Phonological System of Nandome Dagaare. Presented at: The 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.

Pruett, Jack. (2023). Where Mutation does not Occur—Mutation Blocking in Irish Gaelic and Evidence for DP Phases. Presented at: The 59th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.