Publications

The latest version of my CV can be accessed here. If you'd like a copy of anything not linked here, please email me!

DISSERTATION

2023. Clause structure and ergativity in Nukuoro. [lingbuzz]

PAPERS

to appear. Maintaining syntactic identity under sluicing: Pseudoclefts and voice (mis)matches. In Proceedings of WCCFL 39. [lingbuzz]
2024. LinguaMeta: Unified metadata for thousands of languages. With Sandy Ritchie, Daan van Esch, Uche Okonkwo, and Shikhar Vashishth. In Proceedings of LREC 15. [pdf, github]
2022. Abstract ergative Case without morphological case. In Proceedings of NELS 52, 259-272. [lingbuzz]
2021. Nukuoro (Nukuoro Atoll, Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia) - Language Snapshot. Language Documentation and Description 20:145-153. With Johnny Rudolph. [pdf]
2020. Morphological and syntactic person restrictions in Caquinte. With Zachary O'Hagan. In Proceedings of NELS 50. [lingbuzz]
2019. A Nukuoro origin story. With Johnny Rudolph & K. David Harrison. Pacific Asia Inquiry 10(1): 141-171. [pdf]

LANGUAGE RESOURCES

in prep. Kai ma daalanga o Nuguolo: Tales and stories of Nukuoro. With Margaret Asperheim and Johnny Rudolph.
in prep. Muna Nuguolo: A Nukuoro phrasebook. With Danko Taboroši, Betty Amon, Benjamin Ludwig, and Johnny Rudolph. Pohnpei, Micronesia: Island Research and Education Initiative (iREi).
2022. Nukuoro Living Dictionary. With Ben Adolph, Margaret Asperheim, Harson Henry, Mina Lekka, Johnny Rudolph, Ruth Rudolph, and Dagger Soulik. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages.
2021. Nukuoro Field Materials (2019-24). California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley. With Mina Lekka, Johnny Rudolph, Ruth Rudolph, Lydia Ding, Margaret Asperheim, and Leonie Maurer.
2021. Nukuoro Documentation Initiative. With Johnny Rudolph.

PRESENTATIONS

2023. Syntactic ergativity without inversion: A composite probe analysis of ergative extraction. NELS 53, University of Göttingen. [poster]
2022. The decline of ergativity in the Polynesian Outliers. COOL 12, University of French Polynesia. [slides]
2022. Argument extraction restrictions do not constrain sluicing. WCCFL 40, Stanford University. [handout]
2022. Syntactic ergativity in Nukuoro. Ling Lunch, MIT. [handout]
2022. A'-movement restrictions are salvaged by deletion. "You're On Mute" Ellipsis Seminar, New York University. [handout]
2022. Ergative typology and the architecture of case. Department of Linguistics Colloquium, Harvard University.
2021. Abstract Case without morphological case. NELS 52, Rutgers University. [handout]
2021. Sluicing in Nukuoro: Pseudoclefts and voice mismatches. AFLA 28, McGill University and National University of Singapore. [handout]
2021. Maintaining syntactic identity under sluicing: Pseudoclefts and voice (mis)matches. WCCFL 39, University of Arizona. [handout]
2021. Syntactic ergativity without morphological ergativity: An argument for abstract Case. LSA 95, San Francisco. [slides]
2020. Two case studies in morphological person restrictions. With Madeline Bossi and Zachary O'Hagan. CamCoS 9, Newcastle. [slides]
2020. A compositional semantic analysis of participant number. LSA 94, New Orleans. [poster]
2019. Morphological person restrictions and the pressure to realize local persons. With Zachary O'Hagan. NELS 50, MIT. [poster] [handout]
2019. Secondary number agreement in Karuk. With Line Mikkelsen. Syntax and Semantics Circle, UC Berkeley. [handout]
2019. Participant number is not syntactic. Syntax and Morphology Circle, Stanford University. [handout]