Publications

in preparation      Eliminating the Residue of the Proper Binding Condition

in preparation      Expletive Associates in vP-Preposing and -Ellipsis: An Argument for Rescue by Deletion

under revision     On the Syntactic Autonomy of Theme Vowels   ·   Journal of Linguistics

resubmitted         Radical Tmesis Is Internal Merge   ·   Probus

resubmitted         On the Symmetry Between Merge and Adjoin   ·   Syntactic Theory and Research

2024                      On the Definition of Merge   ·   Syntax

2023                      Raising out of Finite Clauses (Hyperraising)   ·   Annual Review of Linguistics

2022                      Proleptic PPs Are Arguments: Consequences for the Argument/Adjunct Distinction and for Selectional Switch   ·   The Linguistic Review

2022                      Phase-Constrained Obligatory Late Adjunction   ·   Syntax

2021                      Antilocality at the Phase Edge   ·   [ supplement ]   ·   Syntax

2020                      In Situ Mixed Wh-Coordination and the Argument/Adjunct Distinction   ·   Glossa

2020                      XP- and X⁰-movement in the Latin Verb: Evidence from Mirroring and Anti-Mirroring   ·   Glossa      (with Nick Kalivoda)

2018                      Quantifier Float as Stranding: Evidence from Janitzio P’urhepecha   ·   Natural Language and Linguistic Theory     [ pre-copyedit PDF ]

2018                      Super-Local Remove in Nominal Preposing Around Though   ·   Snippets

2018                      Interjections Select and Project   ·   Snippets

2018                      Gestures and Nonlinguistic Objects Are Subject to the Case Filter   ·   Snippets

2017                      P’urhepecha Hyperraising to Object: An Argument for Purely Altruistic Movement   ·   Proceedings of the LSA

2015                      Lake Pátzcuaro P’urhepecha and the Semantic Typology of Degree Constructions   ·   Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19

2015                      On the Derivation of Relative Clauses in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec   ·   Proceedings of BLS 41      (with Nick Kalivoda)

Manuscripts

2023                     Have + Bare Infinitive, For-CPs, and Crosslinguistic Variation

2018                     On the Driving Force for Syntactic Movement   ·   Ph.D. dissertation, UC Santa Cruz

2017                     Are Latinate Prefixes Incorporated Particles? The View from Selection

2017                     Constraints on Nickname Formation Reveal Functional Structure in Proper Names

2012                     On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Should-Subjunctives

2012                     Two Investigations of Adverbs and Clause Structure in English   ·   Senior thesis, Princeton University

2011                     Remarks on the Relationship Between Information Structure and Syntax in P’urhépecha   ·   Junior Paper, Princeton University

2011                     Unaccusativity in P’urhépecha   ·   Junior Paper, Princeton University