Publications

(Accepted) Saá Nìkì'vi Brecha (Así Se Hizo la Brecha): Análisis de una Narrativa Mixteca. Submitted to Tlalocan: Revista de fuentes para el conocimiento de las culturas indígenas de México. (with Ben Eischens, Natalia Gracida Cruz, Roselia Durán Cruz, and Juan Gracida Ortiz). (Audio file and story PDF)

(Accepted) On the Representation of Wh-Words and Foci: Evidence from Mixtec. Linguistic Inquiry.

(to appear) Distinct pathways to possessor A'-extraction in Mesoamerican languages. Proceedings of NELS 55 (with Michelle Yuan)

(2025) Phase unlocking and the derivation of verb-initiality in San Martín Peras Mixtec. In Nikolas Webster et al., editors, Proceedings of WCCFL 41, pages 184-193. Cascadilla Proceedings Project. (with Michelle Yuan)

(2025) San Martín Peras Mixtec. The Journal of the International Phonetic Alphabet 54(2), 811–852 (with Ben Eischens). (Audio Files)

(2024) Rethinking Best Match Using Movement: Evidence from Mixtec. In Robert Autry et al., editors, Proceedings of WCCFL 39, pages 156-165. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

(2024) Iconic Artificial Language Learning in the Field: An Experiment with San Martín Peras Mixtec Speakers. In Samulson, L. K., Frank, S. L., Toneva, M., Mackey, A. and Hazeltine, E., editors, Proceedings of the Annual Medding of the Cognitive Science Society 46, pages 3686-3692. (with Naomi Tachikawa Shapiro & Shane Steinert-Threlkeld)

(2023) Focus is not sufficient for an interrogative interpretation of quexistentials. In Lam, S-Y and Ozaki, S., editors, Proceedings of NELS 53, pages 37-46. GLSA. 

(2023) Which-phrases Cannot Pied-pipe in San Martín Peras Mixtec. In Huijsmans, M. Reisinger, D. K. E., and Underhill, R., editors, Proceedings of WSCLA 25, pages 88-102. UCBWPL. 

(2022) Possible and Impossible Movements within the Mixtec DP. In Pratley B., Bakay, O., Neu E. and Deal P., editors Proceedings of NELS 52, volume 2, pages 15-28. GLSA. 

(2022) Are Constraints on Partially Overlapping Reference Just Condition B? In Balachandran, L. and Duff, J., editors, Syntax & Semantics at Santa Cruz 5, pages 1-15. Linguistics Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz. (with Vishal Arvindam)

(2021) Asymmetric Pitch Raising Under Focus in San Martín Peras Mixtec. In Reising, D. K. E. and Green, H. editors, Proceedings of WSCLA 24, pages 59-74. UBCWPL.

(2020) Can Selection Explain Stranding?: Revisiting a Structural Asymmetry. In Hedding, A. A. and Hoeks, M., editors, Syntax & Semantics at Santa Cruz 4, pages 63-76. Linguistics Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz. 

(2017) Syllable Weight in Amharic. In Newman, P., editor, Syllable Weight in African Languages, pages 69-82, John Benjamins Publishing Company. (with Hannah Sande)

Manuscripts

(2022) How to Move a Focus: The Syntax of Alternative Particles (UC Santa Cruz PhD Dissertation)

(2019) New Information and the Grammar of Focus (UC Santa Cruz Second Qualifying Paper)

(2019) Two Tone Sandhi Processes in San Martín Peras Mixtec (Unpublished Manuscript)

(2018) Resumption in Somali (UC Santa Cruz First Qualifying Paper)