About me

I am currently the Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded project "Logic across languages: Expressing and interpreting connectives cross-linguistically" (CrossConn), hosted by the Leibniz-Center of General Linguistics in Berlin (ZAS). I am also an associated member of the LeibnizDream Generator Group at ZAS.

Previously I was a research associate at ZAS, a post-doc on a project entitled "Strength of Scalar Implicatures" with Dr. Uli Sauerland, and a lecturer at Harvard University teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in semantics and syntax.

In May 2013, I received my Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation entitled "Any questions? Polarity as a window into the structure of questions".

My research is focused on semantics, pragmatics, and the syntax-semantics interface. I am especially interested in polarity phenomena, the array of variation in the interpretation of connective particles cross-linguistically, the grammatical encoding of implicature calculation and interrogative constructions.

Recent papers

Additive free choice items. [with A. Falaus] Natural Language Semantics.

Who and what do "who" and "what" range over cross-linguistically? [with P. Elliott and U. Sauerland] To appear in Journal of Semantics

Negative polarity additive particles. TLLM 2020: Monotonicity in Logic and Languages, pp 166-182.

Not eating kein veggies: Negative concord in child German. [with K. Yatsushiro] Linguistic Evidence 2020.

Quantity implicatures. [with U. Sauerland] The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics. 2020.

Check out my CV and my Google Scholar page.