I'm a theoretical linguist working on topics in syntax, morphology, and their interfaces. In Fall 2023, I started a tenure-track research position at 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 February 22nd, 2024).

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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 grammatical gender and about morphology/syntax modularity. Current and recent projects include:

 

Collaborative work with Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete) on grammatical gender, interpretability, and coordination resolution in Greek, with cross-linguistic comparisons with Icelandic and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian;

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Work on the "Gender Locality Hypothesis" (to appear later this year 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 (accepted to 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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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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A project on Greek gender 'allosemy', connecting the interpretation of masculine and neuter genders in the language;

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A collaborative project with Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University) on passive-like expressions in Jarawara;

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A collaborative project with Kajsa Djärv (University of Edinburgh) on clausal complementation across lexical categories;

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A collaborative project with Milena Šereikaitė on how morphological gaps in Lithuanian inform the theory of defaults;

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A collaborative project with Stanislao Zompì on person hierarchy effects;

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Recent and Upcoming Events​​​​​

• May 2024: I'll be presenting a colloquium talk at Heinrich-Heine Universität in Düsseldorf.

• April 2024: Milena Šereikaitė will be presenting our joint work entitled "Deriving Morphological Gaps: The Neuter Puzzle in Lithuanian" at CLS in Chicago.

• January 2024: I presented work entitled "Gender interpretation and allosemy in Greek" at the LSA annual meeting in New York, NY. The presentation handout can be found here.

• October 24th and 26th 2023: I gave a colloquium talk at Potsdam Universität, presenting joint work with Elena Anagnostopoulou on gender markedness and coordination. I also gave a colloquium talk at the University of Edinburgh the same week on this topic.

• September 1st, 2023: My collaborator Elena Anagnostopoulou presented our joint work entitled "Gender markedness and coordination resolution: Capturing variation across three-gendered languages" at LAGB as an invited speaker.

• 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: Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete), Kajsa Djärv (University of Edinburgh), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University), Milena Šereikaitė (Princeton University), Stanislao Zompì (Universität Potsdam)

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