University of Michigan
LING 209: Language and Human Mind
Graduate Student Instructor, Fall 2026
This course is designed to introduce students to the cognitive revolution and its impact on the contemporary study of human linguistic systems as knowledge systems, a property of the mind. The course reviews the Chomskyan shift away from speech-behavior and/or corpora (products of behavior) as the object of inquiry, to a new focus on the experimental and theoretical study of the cognitive mechanisms underlying our unique human capacity for acquiring and using knowledge of language(s).
University of Michigan
LING 316: Aspects of Meaning
Grader, Winter 2026
This course introduces students to aspects of semantic and pragmatic systems in natural language, including logic and formal systems, reference/co-reference, and text analysis.
Carleton College
LING 115: Introduction to the Theory of Syntax
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2023
This course is organized to enable the student to actively participate in the construction of a rather elaborate theory of the nature of human cognitive capacity to acquire and use natural languages. In particular, we concentrate on one aspect of that capacity: the unconscious acquisition of a grammar that enables a speaker of a language to produce and recognize sentences that have not been previously encountered. In the first part of the course, we concentrate on gathering notation and terminology intended to allow an explicit and manageable description. In the second part, we depend on written and oral student contributions in a cooperative enterprise of theory construction.