I am currently a researcher at the Leibniz-Center of General Linguistics in Berlin (ZAS). Previously I worked as a post-doc on a project entitled Strength of Scalar Implicatures with Dr. Uli Sauerland, and before that I taught graduate and undergraduate courses in semantics and syntax as a Lecturer at Harvard University.
My research is focused on semantics and pragmatics, as well as the syntax-semantics interface. I am especially interested in polarity phenomena, the grammatical encoding of implicature calculation and the syntax and semantics of questions.
I received my Ph.D. from Harvard University in May 2013 with a dissertation entitled Any questions? Polarity as a window into the structure of questions.
Recent publications A new perspective on the shielding property of positive polarity. In SALT 27 Proceedings. Cumulative readings beyond nominals. In Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America. [with P. Elliott] Deriving the positive polarity behavior of plain disjunction. In Semantics & Pragmatics. Fragment answers and double negation in strict negative concord languages. In SALT 26 Proceedings. [with A. Fălăuș] Here is the latest version of my CV. Check out my Google Scholar page here. | Recent presentations Positive polarity indefinites
Who and what do who and what range over cross-linguistically? [with P. Elliott & U. Sauerland]
Strict negative concord [with A. Fălăuș]
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