I am a linguist, and my work involves two interrelated modules of the architecture of the grammar: syntax and morphology. I am particularly interested in the rules, operations and constraints that govern word and sentence building, and where and how they interact. In order to understand and contribute to this line of research, I do in-situ and remote linguistic fieldwork to gather and analyse data from poorly documented African languages.

I received my PhD in linguistics from Universität Leipzig, as a member of the DFG-funded research training group Interaction of grammatical building blocks (IGRA), at the Institut für Linguistik. 

My areas of interest include: 

• Agreement (syntactic and semantic agreement, concord)

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

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

• The grammar of number and gender 

• The syntax of the nominal domain

• Information structure

• Bantu noun class systems

You can find my CV here