Papers and presentations
Click to access my [CV] updated August 18, 2023
Dissertation (2023): Pronouns and Agreement in San Juan Atitán Mam. UC Berkeley Doctoral Dissertation. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vw0v4x5
Dissertation Defense Presentation
Published papers
2021. Two types of resumptive pronouns in Swahili. Linguistic Inquiry, 5 (4): 812 – 833. [link] [pdf - lingbuzz]
2020. Pronominal licensing in Mam. In NELS 50: Proceedings of the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 3, eds. Mariam Asatryan, Yixiao Song, & Ayana Whitmal, 127-140. [pdf - lingbuzz]
2019. Second position clitic placement in Mam (Mayan). In NELS 49: Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 3, eds. Maggie Baird & Jonathan Pesetsky, 117-126. [pdf - lingbuzz]
2019. With Isaac Gould. On the derivation of Swahili amba relative clauses: Evidence for movement. In Theory and description in African Linguistics (4): Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. eds. Emily Clem, Peter Jenks, Hannah Sande. Language Science Press, 441-462 [pdf]
Manuscripts
2021. Formalizing two types of mixed A/A' movement. manuscript [pdf - lingbuzz]
Presentations
2023. Person marking enclitics in San Juan Atitan Mam. Presentation at the 26th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 26). McGill University, Montréal, Canada. [handout]
2023. Working Conditions: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching, Retaining, and Staffing LOTE Programs. Panel discussion at the 2023 Modern Languages Association (MLA) Convention. San Francisco, California. With Shaughnessy, M., Jensen, A.
2021. Object licensing in San Juan Atitán Mam.
McGill Syntax and Semantics Reading Group. Montreal, Canada. (presented virtually) [slides]
Form and Ananlysis in Mayan Linguistics (FAMLi6). Chiapas, Mexico. (presented virtually) With Henry Sales. [slides]
2021. Formalizing three types of mixed A/A' agreement. Move and Agree: Forum onthe formal typology of A' agreement. Hosted virtually by the University of British Columbiaand McGill University. [handout]
2021. Maya Mam language and culture revitalization in a diaspora community. 3rd Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America. With Mendez, Cristina, Henry Sales Hernandez. [slides]
2020. Dialectal variation in Mam ergativity and syntax.
Talk at Workshop on Languages of Meso-America. Santa Cruz, CA. [slides]
UC Berkeley Fieldwork Forum. [slides]
2020. Teaching Mam language classes in California. Poster. Symposium for American Indian Languages (SAIL). Tuscon, Arizona. With Henry Sales. [canceled due to COVID-19]
2020. Two types of "composite" probes. Talk at WCCFL 38. Vancouver, British Columbia. [handout]
2020. Inclusivity in Mam morphosyntax. Poster at Linguistics Society of America 94. New Orleans, LA. [poster] [supplement]
2019. Pronominal licensing in Mam (Mayan). Talk at North Eastern Linguistics Society 50. Boston, MA. [handout]
2019. Morphologically conditioned subsegmental subtraction in Mam. Talk at Coference on Indigenous Language of Latim America. Austin, TX. With Myriam Lapierre and Karee Garvin [slides]
2019. Case and Agreement in Mam. Talk at Workshop on Languages of Meso-America. Santa Cruz, CA. [handout]
2019. Conjoint/disjoint alternation and linearization in Ndengeleko. Poster at LSA 2019. NY. [poster]
2018. Anti-clitic host requirement on second position clitic in SJA-Mam. Poster NELS 49. Ithaca, NY. [poster]
2018. Two types of resumptive pronouns in Swahili. Talk presented at the World Congress on African Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco. [handout]
2018. Extraction Morphology and Relative clauses in Mam. Talk presented at the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 23. Ottawa, Ontario. [handout]
2018. Syntactic deletion within resumptive pronouns in Swahili.
Talk presented at the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL). Lansing, MI. [handout]
Talk presented at Stanford Syntax and Morphology Circle.
2018. Obligatory Resumptive Pronouns in Swahili. Talk presented at the 92nd annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Salt Lake City, UT.
2016. On the derivation of Swahili amba relative clauses Evidence for movement. Talk presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Berkeley, CA. With Isaac Gould.
2015. The Effect of Syllable Structure and Minimality on Arabic and English Loanwords in Swahili. Talk presented at the Tri-College Undergraduate Linguistics Conference. Haverford, PA.