CV

Research Interests

Syntax and morphosyntactic variation
Morphology and morphophonology
Allomorphy
Infixation
Root and pattern morphology
Case, agreement, and licensing
Differential Object Marking
Neo-Aramaic

The bigger picture

In Press, with Bronwyn Bjorkman, Lauren Clemens, Claire Halpert, Ruth Kramer, Sarah Murray, Aida Talić. The morphology/syntax interface. Elements in Generative Syntax, Cambridge University Press.

To appear, with Philipp Weisser. Minimalism and morphology. For The Cambridge Handbook of the Minimalist Program.

2023. Morphology: From agglutinating to compli-freakin’-cated. Inaugural GLOWing Lecture, Generative Linguistics in the Old World. Viewable via the YouTube Stream.

Architecture of the grammar (via infixation & allomorphy)

2026. A novel argument for cyclicity from the (in)visibility of infixes at morpheme junctures: Bottoms up! Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 44(14):1-56.

2025. Decomposition and infixation: A new approach to root and pattern morphology in Modern Hebrew. Slides from a talk presented for a colloquium at University of Maryland.

2025. On infixes and infixation: Beyond prosodic morphology. Slides from an invited talk at the Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm).

2023, with Nicholas Rolle. Deconstructing subcategorization: Conditions on insertion vs. position. Linguistic Inquiry 55(1):197-218. (Also available: slides from a talk presented at LSA 2021.)

2023. When size matters in infix allomorphy: A unique window into the morphology-phonology interface. For The size of things II, Language Science Press.

2022. Infixes really are (underlyingly) prefixes/suffixes: Evidence from allomorphy on the fine timing of infixation. Language 98(4): 641-682. (Also available: handout from a talk presented in 2021 for a colloquium at Leipzig University.)

2022. Verbal plural allomorphy in Hunzib and its implications for the cyclicity of the morphosyntax-phonology interface. Glossa 7(1):1-25.

2020. Morphology before phonology: A case study of Turoyo (Neo-Aramaic). Morphology 30:135-184. (Also available: handout LSA 93 in 2019, New York City.)

2018. Complex verbs and wordhood in Turoyo. Heading in the right direction: Linguistic Treats for Lisa Travis.

2018, with Byron Ahn. What's in a (English) reflexive? NELS 48 Proceedings. (Also available: Handout from NELS 48, University of Iceland.)

2018, with Ümit Atlamaz. Reanalyzing Indo-Iranian “stems”: A case study of Adıyaman Kurmanji. Tu+ 1 Proceedings. UMass Amherst. (Also available: handout from an invited talk given at Workshop on Aspect in 2016, Cornell University.)

Nominal licensing (agreement, DOM, PCC, splits, & more)

2020, with András Bárány. Introduction. In Case, agreement, and their interactions: New perspectives on differential argument marking. Linguistische Arbeiten, Mouton de Gruyter.  

2020. Opacity in agreement. In Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme. Berlin: Language Science Press.

2019, with Philipp Weisser. Asymmetric Differential Object Marking in coordination: A problem for movement-based approaches. Linguistic Inquiry 50(3): 662-676.

2019. Nominal licensing is driven by valued (phi-)features. GLOW Short Report Proceedings. Nordlyd, 43.1: 15-29. (Also available: Slides from GLOW 40, Leiden University, and a handout from an NYU Syntax Brown Bag talk.)

2018. Licensing and Differential Object Marking: The view from Neo-Aramaic. Syntax 21(2): 112-159.

2017. Dropping the F-bomb: An argument for valued features as derivational time-bombs. NELS 47 Proceedings. (Also available: slides from a talk at GLOW 40 in 2017, Leiden University; handout from a talk in the Syntax Brown Bag series in 2016, NYU.) 

2016. The morphosyntax of aspect stacking in Northeastern Neo-Aramaic. Glossa 1(1):49, 1-39.

2015, with Coppe van Urk. Aspect splits without ergativity: Agreement asymmetries in Neo-Aramaic. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33:659-702

2015. Morphological reversal in Amadiya as late agreement. WCCFL 33 Poster Proceedings.

2015. Two ways to Agree in Neo-Aramaic. Handout from an invited talk given at Stony Brook University.

2014. Apparent last resort agreement in Senaya ditransitives. NELS 43 Proceedings.

2014, with Coppe van Urk. A novel aspect split in Senaya. CLS 48 Proceedings.

2012. Two last resort phenomena in Senaya (Neo-Aramaic). In Theories of Everything. In Honor of Ed Keenan. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics.

2012, with Laura McPherson. Structural Person Case Constraint effects in progressives. WCCFL 30 Proceedings.

2012, with Coppe van Urk. Aspect-based agreement reversal in Neo-Aramaic. WCCFL 30 Proceedings.

Miscellaneous other work

2026, with Nicholas Rolle. Review of Punske (2024) “Morphology: A Distributed Morphology Introduction.” Word Structure 19(1): 134–143.

2015, with Lauren Winans, Nina Hyams, and Jessica Rett. Children’s comprehension of syntactically-encoded evidentiality. NELS 45 Proceedings.

2012. Hixkaryana: The syntax of Object Verb Subject word order. WCCFL 29 Poster Proceedings.

2012, with Ed Keenan. TP serialization in Malagasy. AFLA 18 Proceedings. 

2009. News about the no-phrase: Specificational pseudoclefts in Malagasy. AFLA 16 Proceedings.

Edited volumes

2018, with Ileana Paul and Jozina Vander Klok (eds.). Heading in the right direction: Linguistic Treats for Lisa Travis. Montreal, QC: McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25(1).

2020, with András Bárány (eds.). Case, agreement, and their interactions: New perspectives on differential argument marking. Linguistische Arbeiten, Mouton de Gruyter. 

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