I am an associated PhD student in the DFG-funded research training group Interaction of grammatical building blocks (IGRA), at the Institut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig. 

I am currently working on agreement and class exponence asymmetries within Grassfields Bantu DPs. The major aim of this project is to uniformly account for the fact that focus-marked (by movement) agreeing modifiers in some of these languages surface with limited or no agreement. My work on the topic is rooted in Generative grammar approaches to language and Distributed Morphology. 

Overall, I am particularly interested in West African languages and what they can contribute to our understanding of theories of morphology and syntax, and the interplay between the two. 

My areas of interest include: 

• Agreement (syntactic and semantic agreement, concord)

• Syntactic dependencies (movement vs base-generation, reflexes of movement, resumption, phi-feature mismatches)

• Morphology (locality of Impoverishment, feature-driven haplology, allomorphy)

• The grammar of number and gender (make-up and loci of these features in the syntax, and how they interact)

• DP-syntax

• Bantu noun class systems