I completed my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Arizona in December 2016. Since then I have been working in artificial intelligence, building linguistically savvy ontologies to power applications in robotics, healthcare, supply chain, and beyond.
I am interested in morphology, syntax, and semantics, particularly as they pertain to idioms and other noncompositional uses of language. My research has been primarily focused on two areas: the morphosyntax of Cherokee (Iroquoian, Southern Iroquoian), with a focus on deverbal nominalizations; and the structure and idiomatization of English verb phrases. My dissertation, completed in December 2016, used traditional, experimental, and corpus-based methods to investigate what idioms can tell us about the structure and organization of linguistic representations.
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