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 June 19th, 2026).​ I go by he/him.

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After receiving my PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 2020 to 2022 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 and other languages (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 Milena Šereikaitė (Cornell) on how morphological gaps in Lithuanian inform the theory of defaults (presented at the DM meets Nano workshop, with a manuscript under review);

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A collaborative project with Kajsa Djärv (Edinburgh) on clausal complementation across lexical categories (SALT 35 proceedings);​​​​​​

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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),

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Recent and Upcoming Event Highlights​​​​

• July 2026: I'll be presenting at the DM meets Nano conference in Brno.

• May 2026: I started as the PI of a DFG-funded project on gender mismatches in nominal syntax, with Nele Arnold as the PhD student funded by the project. Some of the work connected to the project was presented in May in Salzburg at the Comparative Syntax Workshop and will be presented in Bielefeld at the workshop on nominal predicates in September.

• February 2026: I gave an invited talk as part of the Phi and Markedness Workshop at ZAS. Along with Kazuko Yatsushiro and Zoka Puškar-Gallien, I organized a DGfS workshop in Trier on grammatical mismatches.

• 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.

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

• 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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