December 2025
I submitted my first journal article titled Transitive subject relativization restriction in Northern Tujia and beyond! Now we wait and pray...
I completed my dissertation prospectus on A-not-A questions and a new modular theory of reduplication. I am now officially ABD! 🥳
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!Â
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!Â