Research
Research interests
I am interested in formal semantics, syntax, and their interfaces. Specifically I work on the left edge of clauses (C-layer) and nominals (D-layer), both on their syntactic struture and semantic composition. My work has primarily been based off of data I collect doing fieldwork. I have worked on Imbabura Kichwa (Quechua II), and Sereer (Niger-Congo). Most recently I have begun work on Pulaar (Niger-Congo) and Egyptian Arabic (Afro-Asiatic).
- The relationship between clausal marking and the syntax of the left-periphery in Sereer
- Definiteness and plurality
- Discourse markers aslan and hatta in Egyptian Arabic
- Marking epistemic authority using discourse operators in Imbabura Kichwa
Conference presentations
(2025). Decomposing the Definite Article: Evidence from Higher-Order Plurals. TOM17 (Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop ), Ottawa, Canada [talk]
(2024). Epistemic Authority in Imbabura Kichwa: Direct Evidence isn’t Always it!. SULA (Semantics of Underrepresented Languages of The Americas), Florianopolis, Brazil [talk]
(2024). (with Margarethe McDonald, Bob McMurray & Tania Zamuner) Developmental changes in phonological and semantic competition during spoken word recognition. International Congress for the Study of Child Language , Prague, Czechia [poster]
(2024). Epistemic Authority in Imbabura Kichwa. TOM16 (Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop ), Toronto, Canada [talk]
(2024). (with Margarethe McDonald & Tania Zamuner) Developmental changes in phonological and semantic competition during spoken word recognition. ASA (Acoustic Society of America), Ottawa, Canada [poster]
(2024). Focus in Imbabura Kichwa. MOTH 2024 (Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop ), Ottawa, Canada [poster]
(2023). Verb-stem variation in fronted constructions in Enlhet. TULCON 16, Toronto, Canada [talk]
(2022). Fronted Constructions in Enlhet. TOMILLA 4 (Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Indigenous Languages of Latin America), Toronto, Canada [talk]