• • My primary area of research is the interface between morphosyntax and phonology. I am especially concerned with questions of how phonological processes are used to communicate morphosyntactic information (phenomena referred to as nonconcatenative morphology).

  • My dissertation strives to provide a unified account of two different types of nonconcatenative morphology in Irish and Arabic.

    • I draw parallels between Irish Initial Consonant Mutation and Root-and-Pattern Morphology in Moroccan Arabic.

    • A major goal is to demonstrate that different types of nonconcatenative morphology can be analyzed in the same way.

    • A second goal is to develop a Distributed Morphology (DM) analysis of these types of nonconcatenative morphology, as they currently pose challenges to the theory.

  • Most of my current and previous work looks at how Irish Initial Consonant Mutation interacts with other aspects of the linguistic system.

  • This includes:

    • The phonology of Initial Consonant Mutation

    • The morphosyntax of Initial Consonant Mutation

    • Locality domains of Initial Consonant Mutation

    • What Mutation can tell us about the phrase structure and morphosyntax of Irish in general

  • Outside of my dissertation, other projects include:

    • Case assignment

    • A-bar dependencies in Irish

    • Complementizers in Arabic and Irish

    • Umlaut in German

    • Grammatical Tone in Igbo (with Ferdinand Duru, Georgetown University)

    • A linguistic description of Awutu (beginning in June 2026; NSF-funded PI: Michael Obiri-Yeboah)

  • General topics I am interested in:

    • Agreement

    • Case Assignment

    • Phrase Structure

    • Locality Domains

    • Interactions between Phonology and Morphosyntax

Please feel free to reach out if you would like to discuss any of the aforementioned topics or are interested in the specifics of any of my projects.