Linguist

I am a postdoctoral research associate in the CNRS Bases Corpus Langage laboratory at Université Côte d'Azur in Nice (France), working with Dr. Lena Baunaz. I am also associated with the Centre d'études francoprovençales in Saint-Nicolas (Aosta Valley, Italy). 

I work on Romance languages, with a particular emphasis on Francoprovençal. I am interested in how structure (syntax) interacts with the other components of the grammar: meaning and sound. I am currently working on questions in an understudied Francoprovençal variety spoken in Aosta Valley (Italy), Valdôtain Patois (see my dissertation here). Other projects focus on exceptive and exclusive constructions (Except John/setting aside John, everyone came.), reflexive verbs (They wash themselves.), and clitic pronouns. Finally, I am involved in #FPGlobal, a project led by Naomi Nagy (UofT) that aims to bring together speakers of Francoprovençal across Europe and North America, while creating a corpus of Francoprovençal varieties. 

I hold a PhD from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, where I was advised by Maria Polinsky, Aron Hirsch, and Gary Thoms (NYU).