I am a PhD Candidate in Linguistics at the University of Chicago.
My dissertation, Right Edge Sharing: Finding Structural Constraints in the Post- Syntax, investigates structural constraints on Right Edge Sharing phenomena, which comprises of Right Node Raising, Backwards Gapping, and Suspended Affixation.
My research interests encompass syntactic and morphological theory and their interfaces (Morphophonology, Syntax-Semantics Interface). Recently, my work focuses on the following topics:
- Shared Exponence & Ellipsis: Sluicing, Gapping, Suspended Affixation, Right Node Raising
- Allomorphy: Suppletion, Morphophonological Alternations, Domain Effects
- Crosslinguistic Variation: Historical/family-internal variation within Turkic; Comparative Syntax within Austronesian (Samoan, Hawaiian, Eastern Javanese)
- The Post-Syntax: Allomorphy, Vocabulary Insertion, Identity Conditions, Linearization
Outside of Academia
I dabble in the following: tea, brewing mead, raising plants (particularly Crassula, Haworthia, Gasteria, Adenium, and Alocasia), sewing (seamstry and sashiko), pottery, and Go (Jp. 囲碁, Kor. 바둑, Man. 围棋).
Miscellaneous Stuff
- Here is a Hitomezashi Pattern Generator app I made for Sashiko embroidery pattern drafting: Hitomezashi Pattern Generator
- Autobiography blurb attempt in Middle Egyptian (feedback and corrections welcome)
