Courses Taught
As Assistant Professor at the University of Washington
Graduate
LING 580—Problems in Linguistics: Fieldwork and Theory (Fall 2023)
Undergraduate
LING 200—Introduction to Linguistics (Winter 2024)
LING 462—Syntax 2 (Winter 2024, Spring 2024)
As Acting Assistant professor at the University of Washington
Graduate
LING 580—Problems in Linguistics: Focus Displacement (Fall 2022)
Undergraduate
LING 200—Introduction to Linguistics (Spring 2023)
LING 400—Survey of Linguistic Method and Theory (Winter 2023)
LING 461—Syntax 1 (Winter 2023)
LING 462—Syntax 2 (Spring 2023)
As Instructor of Record at the University of California Santa Cruz
Undergraduate
LING 112—Syntax 1 (Fall 2021)
LING 131—Spanglish: Language and Identities through Contact (Summer 2021)
LING 240—The Pedagogy of Linguistics (Fall 2019, Winter 2020)
As Teaching Assistant at the University of California Santa Cruz
Core Classes
LING 50—Introduction to Linguistics (Fall 2018)
LING 112—Syntax 1 (Winter 2019, Fall 2020)
LING 113—Syntax 2 (Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
LING 53—Semantics 1 (Winter 2022)
LING 101—Phonology 1 (Spring 2018)
LING 102—Phonology 2 (Fall 2017, Fall 2019)
Electives
LING 80K—Invented Languages, from Elvish to Esperanto (Spring 2019, Spring 2022)
LING 80M—Language and Indigeneity in Mesoamerica (Winter 2021)
LING 145—Native Languages of North America (Winter 2018)
Syllabi
At the University of Washington
LING 580—Problems in Linguistics: Focus Displacement (Graduate Seminar)
Description:
In many languages, linguistic foci must displace from their thematic position to another position in the clause. While this phenomenon is well-documented across a wide range of languages, there is no consensus about what triggers it. Complicating matters is the fact that this displacement is often associated with prosodic prominence, specific interpretations, and increased psycholinguistic salience. In this course, students will explore and critically evaluate several different explanations to explain focus displacement: syntactic movement, prosodic movement, and processing.
At UC Santa Cruz
LING 112—Syntax 1 (Undergraduate)
Description:
This course is an introduction to the study of syntax (i.e. sentence construction) in natural languages. Because it is the language we all share, we will focus primarily on English, but the principles of theory and analysis should extend to the study of the syntax of other languages. This course has three overarching goals: (i) to introduce you to the goals of theoretical syntax: in particular, the theory of generative syntax, as it has developed since the 1950s; (ii) to explore some core syntactic phenomena that characterize human language: both what systematically differentiates them and what they have in common; (iii) to advance your abilities to analyze and discuss syntactic data, both orally and in writing.
LING 131—Spanglish: Language and Identities through Contact (Undergraduate Elective)
Description:
“Spanglish” is a way of speaking which combines aspects of English and Spanish. Though it is commonly used by bilinguals throughout the US, it is often stigmatized. This course will explore Spanglish as a linguistic and cultural phenomenon, and compare it to language mixing in other bilingual communities. In this course, we will investigate various linguistic phenomena that are sometimes called Spanglish, such as borrowing English words and phrases into Spanish and rapidly switching between the two languages in the same sentence or utterance. In addition, we will explore the ways in which Spanglish is used to establish Latinx identities in the United States, especially among first and second-generation immigrants. Finally, we will critically assess the way that linguistic prejudice leads to the stigmatization of Spanglish, as well as the role that linguistics can play in addressing that stigma.