Welcome to my personal website. I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. My primary research areas are semantic fieldwork and documentation.
My research interests are semantic fieldwork, the semantics-pragmatics and syntax-semantics interface, and morphosyntax. My dissertation aims to unfold the semantic decomposition of change-of-state predication in two Salish languages – Secwepemctsín and nłeʔkepmxcín. In doing so, I look at the interaction between verb roots and (in)transitivizing (agent) control morphology, stativity, and inchoativity.
Other research projects include the pragmatic function of question and reason words in Dutch, morphosyntax of agreement in the Germanic language family, and agentivity in Salish.
edited: December 2024