My research interests are rooted in the syntax, semantics, and their interface.
I am currently working on issues related to the syntax and semantics of transitivity and adverbial modification, specifically in Middles and Tough Constructions. I have also
worked on the semantics of negation and anaphora licensing.
I also used to lead Cornell's syntax reading group (SynCirc), where grad students present and discuss current research across a variety
of topics and formalisms.
Education
Ph.D., Linguistics
Cornell University
August 2012-Present
B.A, English Linguistics and Spanish
Eastern Michigan University
May 2012
Publications
The Role of Phonesthemes in Shoegaze Naming Conventions.
| To Appear in Names: A Journal of Onomastics, early 2018.
Presentations
The Role of Phonesthemes in Shoegaze Naming Conventions. | ICOS 2017 (International Congress of Onomastic Science): Debrecen, Hungary. August 2017.
Continuations for Head-Internal Relative Clauses in Japanese. [poster]
| Cornell Workshop on Relative Clauses: Relatives in East Asia and Beyond: Ithaca, NY. November 2015.
For-phrases in Middle Constructions as Low Benefactives. [poster]
| LSA Annual Meeting: Portland, OR. January 2015.
Invited Talks
Formal Languages & the Chomsky-Schützenberger Hierarchy
| Linguist List Summer Colloquium Series, June 2013
Teaching - Cornell
- Morphology (TA, Spring 2015)
- Creating the Science of Language: First-Year Writing Seminar (Instructor, Fall 2014) [partial syllabus]
- Introduction to Linguistics (TA, Spring 2014, Spring 2016)
- Elementary Spanish I (TA, Fall 2013, Fall 2015)
Workshops Organized
Fun Stuff
I made a map called The Cartography of the Derivation (.pdf). It is a full-color
map crammed full of bad syntax puns. Contact me if you would like a high-quality pdf in any particular size.
I have also contributed to Speculative Grammarian here and here.