Welcome to my personal website. I’m a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. My main areas of research are semantic fieldwork and language documentation, with a focus on understudied and Indigenous languages.
My work centers on the semantics-pragmatics and syntax-semantics interfaces, as well as morphosyntax. In my dissertation, I explore how change-of-state meanings are built in two Interior Salish languages, Secwepemctsín and nłeʔkepmxcín. I look at how verb roots interact with (in)transitivizing morphology related to agent control, as well as how these patterns relate to stativity and inchoativity.
Beyond my dissertation, I’ve worked on a range of topics, including the pragmatic use of question and reason words in Dutch, agreement and morphosyntactic patterns in the Germanic language family, and agentivity in Salish languages.
edited: May 2025