About
I am a linguist currently working as a postdoctoral associate in the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.
My work brings together formal and experimental approaches to language research to investigate fundamental questions at the interface of linguistic form and meaning, such as:
What do the patterns found in language reveal about the way we represent the world around us?
What form-meaning mapping principles are common across all languages, and what varies?
What is the division of labor between syntax and semantics in explaining language phenomena?
Specific topics investigated in my work include binding, reflexivity, restructuring, control, argument and event structure, implicit arguments, and clausal embedding.
Central to my research is the use of behavioral experiments to investigate fuzzier areas at the interfacae of syntax and semantics. Here at Rutgers, I am a faculty associate in the Meaning Across Languages Lab. As a graduate student, I was a member of the Harvard Meaning & Modality Lab.
Before coming to Rutgers, I received my PhD from the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. You can find my dissertation on binding in English locative prepositional phrases here.