• • My primary area of research is the interface between syntax and phonology. 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 demonstrate that nonconcatenative types of morphology can be analyzed in the same way, despite their apparent differences on the surface.

    • 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 of DM.

  • 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.