I work on morphosyntactic and phonological theory, looking at data from a variety of languages from around the world.

In morphosyntax, most of my work is on phi-features (person, number, gender, honorificity) and the syntactic and morphological operations that manipulate them. I'm especially interested in intricate verb agreement systems; for instance:

• portmanteau agreement and discontinuous agreement in Karuk (isolate, California)

• the interplay of person, honorificity, information structure, and syntactic locality in Maithili (Indo-Aryan, Nepal/India) agreement [collaborative work with Samir Alam and Yogendra P. Yadava]

• number mismatches and number conflation in Murrinhpatha (Southern Daly, Australia) agreement

• aspect-split split-S agreement and omnivorous plural/dual agreement in Northern Iroquoian languages.

Recently, my interest in phi-features has also extended to the nominal domain:

• the position of possessive clitics in Alshaa Mongolian and Khalkha Mongolian postpositional phrases [collaborative work with Jun Jie Lim and Samir Alam]

• associative plurality in rural Iberian Spanish first names [collaborative work with Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez].

In phonology, my work focuses on the effect of syllable weight on the delineation of stress domains: 

• weight-sensitive prosodification of agreement prefixes in Karuk (isolate, California) [collaborative work with Darby Grachek]

• modeling non-canonical weight-sensitive stress systems using adjustable prosodic word edges in Optimality Theory

• modeling stress windows and 'positional weight' using gradient alignment and gradient weight in Harmonic Grammar.

CV (updated Mar 2024)