
When I can, I enjoy traveling; I have spent time in Europe and South America, among other places. I am a certified scuba diver, and I enjoy diving or snorkeling anywhere from Ecuador to Iceland. When I’m on campus but taking time away from academia, I enjoy playing Ultimate Frisbee.
For my dissertation, I am working on Pseudocoordination including typological, historical and formal syntactic analyses. While also considering other similar phenomena cross-linguistically, my goal is to investigate the nature of the relationship between form and meaning, which does not appear to be isomorphic. Instead, structural relationships likely exist at an underlying level of structure, while surface forms are due to linearization. For this project I am working with Dr. Abbas Benmamoun, Dr. Hans Henrich Hock, Dr. James Hye Suk Yoon, and Dr. José Ignacio Hualde.
I also have ongoing research on Age Effects in Language Acquisition, with advisor Dr. Tania Ionin and undergraduate research assistants.