Compounding
I've studied compounding in Greek and varieties thereof. I've argued that:
VO deverbal compounds (kill-joy) are perfectively marked to ensure categorial distinctness between the first compound member and the nominalizing suffix, preventing a possible FOFC violation.
Here is a proceedings paper for that, as presented at the 44th AMGL.
There is no 'compound-specific' stress; all prosody maps morphosyntactic structure to phonological domains in a 1:1 fashion.
Wait a bit more for the full paper or come listen to this story in the 17th ICGL.
I've also worked towards creating a Northern Pomo 'compoundicon'. This work studies syntactic dependencies between sub-word constituents and their prosody in the dormant language of Northern Pomo. This year, I'm enhancing the documentation/revitalization tools available at https://northernpomolanguagetools.com/
Cliticization
I take interest in some under-studied cliticization patterns of (mostly Northern Greek) dialects. These exhibit a big amount of variation and differ significantly in their clausal spine from that of standard varieties. I've argued that:
Mesoclisis (a phenomenon in which some weak object pronoun splits the verbal root from its inflectional suffix) can be understood as syntactic enclisis + a post-syntactic rule known as Generalized Reduplication.
Here is a pre-print proceedings paper for that for that, as presented at the 10th MGDLT
Implicit complements
My MA thesis focused on a typology of implicit complements in Modern Greek and its implications for the manner/result complementarity hypothesis. I've argued that the diagnostic of direct object omission which prior literature uses to distinguish between MANNER and RESULT can only be applied correctly if a set of syntactic and pragmatic restrictions are met.
Polydefiniteness
Relatively few (but unrelated) languages allow weirdly shaped constructions, like 'the nice the car the empty'. I examine the semantics and pragmatics of these with Liz Coppock for my second qualifying paper.
Differential object marking
With colleagues at Boston University, we investigated several predictors concerning the distribution of the Differential Object Marking -(i)g in Khalkha Mongolian during our Field Methods class. [slides]
Possession in Ende
Ende, a Pahoturi river language, displays some fancy alternations when marking possession. I've worked with prof. Kate Lindsey for a Research Fellowship and disentangled some of them, by comparing and contrasting these intra- and cross- linguistically.
Part of this was presented in SULa and APLL 16 [slides].
Whistling in Greek (active)
There are many (under-studied) whistling languages across the globe, and one of them is whistled in Southern Evoia, in a village of about 30 residents called Antias. Together with colleague Andre Schwab and professor Jon Barnes we constructed seven experiments that either tested previously made claims in the literature or explored new ways in which the whistled speech showed correlates of phonological processes (e.g. stress shift, palatalization, etc). Part of this research has also benefited the local community, as after 3 fieldwork trips we were able to help organize and run a revitalization school in the village(!)
We found strong phonetic correlates for things that you can find out too, if you email me! Check out this cool story here!
Kse- prefixation
I investigate a peculiar prefix in Modern Greek, which does several of the things for which English has different prefixes, like un-, de-, etc. In doing so, I argue for a single lexical semantics entry and different syntactic heights of attachment.