Welcome to my personal website. I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia, mainly working at the syntax-semantics interface.
Broadly, my research interests are syntax-semantics interface relations, semantics, morphosyntax and field linguistics. My dissertation is on the semantic composition of change-of-state predication in two Salish languages – Secwepemctsín and Nłeʔkepmxcin. The specific areas that my dissertation research addresses are verb roots, (in)transitivizing (agent) control morphology, stativity, and inchoativity. More broadly, I investigate the different ways in which we can understand aspectual decomposition and event structure of change-of-state predication in natural language as a whole.
Other research projects include the pragmatic function of question and reason words in Dutch question, and the morphosyntax and morphosemantics in the Germanic language family, specifically agreement (or a lack thereof).
edited: June 2024