who am I? 

I'm a second-year PhD student of Linguistics at Boston University. I'm curious about the manner and extent to which languages vary from one another, especially in their morphosyntax. This year, I'm taking classes and writing my first qualifying paper on cliticization of my own dialect; it's a micro-comparative morphosyntactic investigation (supervised by Neil Myler).

what do I study?

I take interest in the span of universal constraints and the implications of their existence for the architecture of grammar. I investigate these topics by extending our generalizations to lesser-studied languages, and see if they hold. 

how do I study it?

Typological and comparative studies can reveal key elements of what may (not) be grammatical, therefore straightly informing our understanding of how grammar works. Fieldwork and empirical methods are key to exploring the intricate nature of language.  To that end, I'm a member of the SULa Lab. 

I'm also working as the registration chair for the 48th BUCLD.