Doctoral dissertation
Projecting (your) voice: A theory of inversion and defective circumvention. May 2025.
Committee: John Bailyn (primary advisor), Francisco Ordóñez, Sandhya Sundaresan, Chris Collins
Peer-Reviewed Published Papers
2026. Two is Better Than One: Subject DPs in Spanish third person plural arbitrary sentences. Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 15(1). https://doi.org/10.7557/1.15.1.8333
2026. Quotative inversion as smuggling: Evidence from Setswana and English. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 44, 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-026-09705-8
2025. Pictorial constituents & the metalinguistic performance of LLMs. Journal for Language Technology & Computational Linguistics 38(2), 111-124. https://doi.org/10.21248/jlcl.38.2025.295
2025. Predicate nominals in Tshila. Linguistic Variation 25(2), 375-416. https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.24036.sto
2024. Going ✈️ lexicon? The linguistic status of pro-text emojis. Glossa 9(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10449
2021. Going city: Directional predicates and preposition incorporation in youth vernaculars of Dutch. Linguistics in the Netherlands 38(1), 65-80 (with Gert-Jan Schoenmakers). https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00050.sch
Manuscripts
2026. "Big DP & Big PRO: A unified account of reflexive and impersonal se" (with Francisco Ordóñez) [link]
2026. "Spanish subject-verb agreement as cliticization: A Merge-based approach" [link]
2025. "Defective Circumvention: Multiple Agree as Minimal Search" [link]
2025. "Inversion in Russian, smuggling, and leapfrogging" (with Chris Collins) [link]
2025. "Agreement variation and optionality in Spanish existential clauses" [link]