My current research includes:
My DPhil thesis on relativization in Old Iranian languages (looking at the distribution of different relativization strategies in these allegedly non-configurational languages, as well as their diachrony up to Modern Persian);
Free relatives free from silent operators (proceedings paper of LSA'25): I motivate a novel analysis of free relatives at the syntax-semantics interface, and argue that typologically, free relatives can also be non-interrogative-based.
The Old Avestan Correlatives: an Alternative LFG Analysis (proceedings paper of LFG'22): in giving a unified LFG syntactic analysis for non-postnominal RCs in Old Avestan, I argue for the existence of nominal correlatives, and challenge the category of hanging free relatives.
Non-postnominal relativization in Old Avestan (proceedings paper of the UCLA Indo-European Studies Conference 2023 -- email me for a copy): I show that non-postnominal relative clauses in Old Avestan are fundamentally different structures than postnominal ones. I then position these relative clauses within a broader typological domain. This work is of a more philological nature.
Semantics of imperfectivity and progressives in Persian (with Daniel Altshuler);
The Interruption Puzzle with the Persian Imperfective (submitted, draft on lingbuzz): Persian can describe an in-progress event via two imperfective markers, but not all in-progress events! We have given a semantics for these two markers which can account for their difference in interaction with event interruption.
With Daniel Altshuler and Danfeng Wu, we are currently writing an invited paper on the interaction of negation and aspect.
Modal syntax in Persian (with Ash Asudeh).
Modal syntax cuts short the claim that modern Persian lacks apocopated infinitives (proceedings paper of LFG'23): Using evidence from modal syntax, we have shown that Persian synchronically has an apocopated infinitive (مصدر مرخم), and, consequently, nonfinite clauses. We have also given an analysis of modal syntax in Persian within Lexical Functional Grammar.
Ever since my undergraduate years, I wanted to show that Persian actually has an apocopated infinitive, and it is not just a diachronic feature. Therefore, I'm really excited about this work!