Lab Members

I joined the FITT Lab in Fall 2024, and I am currently in my junior year of my undergraduate studies. I will graduate in Spring of 2026 with a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics. 

My areas of interest are syntax, psycholinguistics, and Germanic languages. 

Current and prior work

•  Scrambling and Anaphor Binding in Japanese (Syntactic Theory project at the University of New Hampshire)  

• A research project proposal focused on the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Second Language Acquisition (project for Classroom Research in TESOL at the University of New Hampshire). 

I joined the FITT Lab in 2023 as an Undergraduate Research Assistant, working in the lab throughout my junior and senior years at UMN. In Spring 2024 I graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, and am continuing my work as a part-time assistant. My primary areas of interest are historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and semantics in innovative use of language.

Language(s): English, Latin, Anglo-Saxon

Current & past work:

• Linguistic area database with data about discrepancies and documentation among sources (ongoing)

• Survey & analysis of brand names used as verbs in English (undergraduate honors thesis, 2024)

• Overview of convince and debate as attitude predicates (Advanced Semantics squib, 2024)

• Automated metrical scansion of non-macronized Latin poetry using Python (Introduction to Computational Linguistics project, 2022)

• Conversation transcription & analysis of queer speakers on topics of heteronormativity and intimacy (linguistic anthropology project, 2022)

• Usage of once as a German-based politeness marker in Wisconsin English (Syntactic Theory I  project, 2021)

I joined the FITT lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant during my senior year at the UMN in the Fall of 2024. I am currently pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, and am expected to graduate in May of 2025. My areas of interest are primarily in socio-linguistics, historical linguistics, and linguistic typology.

Language(s): English, Spanish, Portuguese

Current & Past Work:

• Linguistic field research and investigation of Somali (ongoing)

• Study of socio-cultural influences on intercultural communication and how language varieties, vernaculars, and dialects are perceived in the classroom. (Intercultural Communication and English Language Teaching project, 2024)

• Overview of sound symbolic patterns in natural corpora with a focus on pokémon naming in Japanese. (Phonology I project, 2023)

• Overview of cross-linguistic patterns of sound symbolism with a concentrated analysis in Korean. (Phonology I project, 2023)

• Analysis of discrepancies and commonalities between English and Spanish translations of Arabic Literature with French Origins. (Introduction to World Literatures project, 2022)

• Conversation transcription and analysis of interpersonal relationships and the usage of discourse markers in casual conversation. (Language, Culture, & Power Anthropology project, 2021)

Language(s): Bangla (Eastern Indo-Aryan), Marathi (Southern Indo-Aryan), Hindi (Central Indo-Aryan)

Areas: discourse particles, modality, counterfactuals

Current PhD work:

• Interactions between scalar-exclusive and scalar-additive particles like Bangla -i/-o,

• Marathi -ts/-pəɳ, Hindi hii/bhii.

• Cross-linguistic comparisons among these particles which contribute in similar ways to the Information Structure.

• Observing the relative order between these particles as they appear within the same clause, hosted by different constituents.

• Exploring the nature of the aforementioned particles in the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface.

Other work(s):

• Deontic necessity modals in Marathi, and their complementization patterns, involving three different verb endings -j, -ne and -ve. The work also sheds light on the role of -ts as an intensifier while hosted by modal complements.

• Categorization of Bangla counterfactuals based on current semantic literature, involving fake tense and conditional morphology.