I'm a theoretical linguist working on topics in syntax, morphology, and their interfaces. As of 2023, I'm a tenure-track researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) as part of their Syntax and Lexicon group. I also currently serve as one of the editors of Linguistic Inquiry Squibs & Discussion. My C.V. can be found here (up to date as of January 15, 2026).​ I go by he/him.

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I received my PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. From 2020 to 2022, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, where I was supervised by Jonathan Bobaljik. My postdoctoral research, funded by the National Science Foundation, focused on the morphosyntax of grammatical gender. The academic year before I started at ZAS, I served as Lecturer in Syntax at Rutgers University.

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Broadly speaking, my research is about nominal features -- especially grammatical gender -- and about grammatical modularity. Current and recent projects include:

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A collaborative project with Stanislao Zompì (Potsdam) on person hierarchy effects with polite pronouns in Italian (recently published early access in Linguistic Inquiry);

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Collaborative work with Elena Anagnostopoulou (Crete) -- published early access in 2025 in Linguistic Inquiry -- on grammatical gender, interpretability, and coordination resolution in Greek, with cross-linguistic comparisons with Icelandic and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian;

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A collaborative project with Ruth Kramer (Georgetown) on passive-like expressions and person restrictions in Jarawara (WCCFL talk; some published thoughts in the Festschrift in honor of Maria Polinsky and with a manuscript in progress)

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A collaborative project with Kajsa Djärv (Edinburgh) on clausal complementation across lexical categories (to appear in SALT proceedings);

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A collaborative project with Milena Šereikaitė (Cornell) on how morphological gaps in Lithuanian inform the theory of defaults (presented at the DM meets Nano workshop, with a manuscript in progress);

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Work on the "Gender Locality Hypothesis" (published 2024 in Language): the idea that a noun's gender can only be affected by local elements, specifically contrasting (in)alienable possessors vs. alienable possessors in various unrelated languages (Teop, Jarawara, Yanyuwa, Coastal Marind);

 

Research (published 2024 in NLLT) on coordinated nominal expressions in Italian that I argue to be multi-dominant and to exhibit a type of "semantic" agreement;​​​​​

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A project on gender 'allosemy' in Greek, connecting the interpretation of masculine and neuter genders in the language (published 2025 in Glossa);​

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Research on number suppletion in Swedish (published 2024 in JCGL), where I argue for a contextual allomorphy approach to a case of root suppletion (and dismiss alternatives appealing to lexical semantics) but also contend with some challenges to such an account.​

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Recent and Upcoming Event Highlights​​​​

• May 2026: I'll be starting as the PI of a DFG-funded project on gender mismatches in nominal syntax.

• February 2026: I'm giving an invited talk as part of the Phi and Markedness Workshop at ZAS.

• June/July 2025: I gave two invited talks about polite pronouns and person hierarchies (collaborative work with Stanislao Zompì); one at a workshop on indexical binding at the University of Geneva and one for a colloquium series at Universität Leipzig.

• March - May 2025: I presented i) joint work on gender and ellipsis in Greek with Elena Anagnostopoulou and Artemis Alexiadou at GLOW (poster); ii) joint work with Ruth Kramer on Jarawara "passives" and person restrictions at WCCFL; and iii) joint work with Kajsa Djärv on clausal and nominal complements with emotive verb/noun predicates at SALT.

• December 2024: I gave an invited talk at BCGL 17 on gender and locality.

• October 2024: Stanislao Zompì and I presented a talk on the PCC at NELS (also: Going Romance in December, LSA in January).

• September 2024: I presented a poster (joint work with Kajsa Djärv) on clausal complements with nominals at Sinn und Bedeutung.

• July 26th, 2023: I organized the workshop "Gender Markedness and Defaults" at the CreteLing summer school.

• May 5th, 2023: I gave a plenary talk at WCCFL41, entitled "Valuing gender on a noun is local: Evidence from possession and number".

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Collaborators: Artemis Alexiadou (ZAS), Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete), Kajsa Djärv (University of Edinburgh), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University), Milena Šereikaitė (Cornell University), Stanislao Zompì (Universität Potsdam)

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