About

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I am a 5th year Linguistics PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago, morpho-syntactician, avid language learner, amateur go player, and an enthusiastic dabbler of handcrafts.

Linguist’s Statement

I am interested in researching the systematic grammatical underpinnings of cross-linguistic variation, specifically with regards to how syntax and its interfaces with morphological, phonological, and semantic systems facilitate and constrain the range of cross-linguistic variety in phenomena such as affixation and cliticization mechanisms, the availability of different types of ellipsis, the realization of agreement and concord, and linearization of syntactic structures.

Linguistic Research Interests

  • Syntax, Morphology, Morphosyntax
  • Syntax Interfaces
    • Ellipsis (VP-E, Sluicing, Gapping)
    • Agreement & Concord
    • Suppletion and Allomorphy
    • Agglutination
    • Linearization
  • Turkic Linguistics
  • Experimental Syntax

Outside of Academia

  • Tea
  • Plants
    • Favorite Genuses: Crassula, Haworthia, Gasteria, Adenium, Alocasia
  • Pottery
    • Favorite Styles: Shino-yaki, Bucheong wares, wood-fired pottery in general
  • Archery
    • Flavor: Olympic Recurve, Thumb-release Asiatic Bows
  • Go/Baduk/Weiqi

Some bits and bobs just for fun

  • Autobiography blurb attempt in Middle Egyptian
    (feedback and corrections welcome) short bio in Middle Egyptian
  • An Introductory Guide to LaTeX for Linguists [zip|pdf] (please download .tex file to see the LaTeX code and preamble)