September 2026
My abstract on tucking-in and how to derive it with cyclic expansion and anti-locality (co-authored with Akil Ismael) is accepted as a talk at NELS 57 at CUNY!
Amy Rose and I submitted a co-authored paper on donkey anaphora and how it bears on theories of definiteness with some fresh data from Mandarin, English, and German!
I submitted my paper on the sources of variable syntactic ergativity in Northern Tujia and beyond!
December 2025
I completed my dissertation prospectus and am now officially ABD! 🥳
My dog Anna turned 7!
July 2025
I passed my Qualifying Exam on July 10 and officially became a PhD candidate!!! 🥳
No in-situ fieldwork for me this summer :(
April 2025
I presented my recent work titled Transitive subject relativization restriction in Northern Tujia and beyond at WCCFL 43 at UW Seattle (and got to see Kylie Minogue live)!
August 2024
I spent 2.5 weeks in Longshan County, Hunan China conducting in-situ fieldwork on Northern Tujia!
I began working with a second collaborator, Yuqiong Ran!
November 2023
My abstract on STAMP portmanteau formation in Lobi (with co-author Sansan Claude Hien) is accepted as a poster at NELS 54! See you in Cambridge, MA in January!
September 2023
I began working on Northern Tujia with my collaborator Huawu Xiang (native speaker, Shanghai Normal University/Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)!
April 2023
My abstracts on nominal licensing and focus marking in Lobi (with co-authors Shweta Akolkar and Sansan Claude Hien) are accepted as talks at ACAL 54!
March 2023
My abstract on nominal licensing in Lobi (with co-authors Shweta Akolkar and Sansan Claude Hien) is accepted as a talk at WCCFL 41 and CLS 59 (declined)!
I received a Graduate Diversity Pilot Grant from the Linguistics Department to attend the 2023 LSA Summer Institute at UMass Amherst!
September 2023
I began working on Lobi (as part of the graduate Field Methods class).
I had brunch with my beautiful, incredible, and inimitable ling-22 cohort!
August 2022
I started grad school at UC Berkeley!