• • My primary area of research is the syntax-phonology interface. I am especially concerned with questions of how phonological changes are used to indicate morphosyntactic information (phenomena sometimes referred to as nonconcatenative morphology).

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

    • Specifically, I focus on drawing parallels between Irish Mutation and Root-and-Pattern Morphology in Moroccan Arabic.

    • A major goal of my dissertation is to show that nonconcatenative types of morphology can be analyzed in the same way despite seeming quite different on the surface.

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

  • This includes:

    • The phonology of Mutation

    • The morphosyntax of Mutation

    • Locality domains of Mutation

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

  • Outside of my dissertation other current projects include:

    • Case assignment in Irish and Arabic

    • Verbal agreement in Irish

    • Multiple Copy Spell Out in Irish

    • Complementizers in Arabic and Irish

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

  • General topics I am interested in:

    • Agreement

    • 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.

Languages:

• English (Native/Bilingual)

• Spanish (Native/Bilingual)

• Arabic (Read, Write, Speak, Research)

• French (Read, Write, Speak)

• Italian (Read, Write, Speak)

• Portuguese (Read, Speak)

• Irish (Read, Speak, Research)

• Latin (Read)

• Ancient Greek (Read)