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Research Projects

  • Definiteness in article-less languages
  • Relative clauses
  • Quantification
  • Numeral classifiers
  • Publications

      2022. Classifiers can be for numerals or nouns: Two strategies for numeral modification. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 7(1), 1-35.
      With Carol-Rose Little and Justin Royer
      [preprint][paper]

      2022. Classifying classifiers: Evidence from Ch’ol, Shan and Chuj for two types of numeral classifiers. Proceedings of 11th Conference of the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 11), 145-160.
      With Carol-Rose Little and Justin Royer
      [preprint] [proceedings]

      2021. Updating the typology of definiteness: Evidence from bare nouns in Shan. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 6(1), 1–28.
      [article][bib]

      2019. Interpreting quantification within internally headed relative clauses. Proceedings of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) in Asia 12
      [preprint][proceedings]

      2019. Definiteness with Bare Nouns in Shan. In Sikos J., Pacuit E. (eds) At the Intersection of Language, Logic, and Information. ESSLLI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11667, 108-123 Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
      [paper][bib]

      2019. Inconsistencies of the Consistency test. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. 55:1-10.
      [paper][bib]

      2018. Interpretation of internally-headed relative clauses in Shan. Proceedings of the 44th Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual Meeting (BLS). 197-212.
      [proceedings][preprint][bib]

      2018. Modeling switch reference in Koasati. Proceedings of the 53rd Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), 231-246.
      [proceedings][preprint][bib]

      2018. Definiteness in Shan. Proceedings of ESSLLI 2018 Student Session, 174-186.
      [proceedings][preprint][bib]

      2018. Internally Headed Relative Clauses in Shan. Papers from the Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium on Southeast Asian Linguistics 2017, 102-112. University of Hawai’i Press.
      [proceedings][bib]

      2016. Modeling obviation in Algonquian. Proceedings of 9th Conference of the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 9), 71–86.
      With Carol-Rose Little
      [proceedings][pdf][bib]

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