My name is John David (JD) Storment, and this is my website.
I'm a linguist and recent PhD graduate from the Stony Brook University Department of Linguistics. I am currently working as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at CUNY Queens College in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, and am also appointed as a visiting scholar at Stony Brook University. Here you can find information about me, my research, and my teaching. Enjoy!
Recent Updates
November 2025: I was featured as a keynote speaker at the 6th Congreso Paraguayo de Lingüística Aplicada (Paraguayan Conference of Applied Linguistics), where I presented on the variation in the realization of grammatical voice alternations seen across English, Spanish, and Guaraní! You can view my slides here.
August 2025: I have begun an appointment as a Visiting Scholar at Stony Brook University, where I am working with Paco Ordóñez on agreement variation in impersonal se constructions in Spanish.
July 2025: My paper Pictorial constituents & the metalinguistic performance of LLMs has recently appeared in the Journal for Language Technology & Computational Linguistics !
May 2025: On May 2, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation, Projecting (your) voice: A theory of inversion and defective circumvention. You can read it here.
April 2025: I was named as a recipient of Stony Brook's President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student.
February 2025: My paper Predicate Nominals in Tshila has been published in Linguistic Variation. This is the first paper ever published on the linguistics of Tshila!
Art in header is The Desk by Kevin Lucbert (2016).