Publications
in progress. Modification and Modality. with Marcin Morzycki. Cambridge Handbook of Natural Language Modality.
to appear. Responsible drivers and good passengers: the influence of subsective modification on nouns. Proceedings of the 28th Sinn und Bedeutung. [PDF]
to appear. Propositional ‘How’ and Justification. With Marcin Morzycki. Proceedings of the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. [PDF]
to appear. Instrument Names, Bare Singulars, and Event Kinds. With Daniel Greeson and Marcin Morzycki. Proceedings of the 58th Chicago Linguistics Society. [PDF]
2024. Monotonicity enables degree modification in Ktunaxa: an investigation of the intensifier wiⱡiⱡ, Proceedings of the 12th Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas. [PDF]
Presentations
2024. Non-speaker-oriented Expressives in Ktunaxa. with Violet Birdstone and Dorothy Alpine. 13th Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas, Florionopolis, Brazil. October 28-31.
2024. The Anatomy of Adjunct Questions in Ktunaxa. with Marcin Morzycki and Kate Zhou. 13th Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas, Florionopolis, Brazil. October 28-31.
2024. The Twofold Nature of Degree Nominalizations: Degree Concepts and Qualities. with Ryan Bochnak, Adam Gobeski, and Marcin Morzycki. 29th Sinn und Bedeutung, Noto, Italy. September 16-19.
2024. Building Adjunct Questions from Anaphors in Ktunaxa. with Marcin Morzycki and Kate Zhou. 29th Sinn und Bedeutung, Noto, Italy. September 16-19.
2024. Non-speaker-oriented Expressives in Ktunaxa and English. Invited Talk for Slurring Terms Across Languages Monthly Seminar, Virtual. June 4.
2024. Ontological puzzles of non-intersective adjectives and as phrases. Events. New Work on Their Ontology and Semantics, Nice, France. June 16-17. [abstract]
2024. As- Phrases as a window onto multidimensionality. The 34th Semantics and Linguistics Theory. Rochester, New York. May 28-30. [abstract]
2024. Expressive Language in Ktunaxa. Grad Student and Postdoc Research Day at UBC, Vancouver, Canada. May 15.
2024. Polar Degree Questions in Ktunaxa. with Marcin Morzycki and Anne Bertrand at The Workshop: Workshop on Polar question meaning[s] across languages. Amsterdam, Netherlands. April 11-13. [abstract] | [presentation]
2023. Responsible drivers and good passengers: the influence of subsective modification on nouns. 28th Sinn und Bedeutung, Bochum, Germany. Sep 6-8. [abstract] | [presentation]
2023. A Modal Analysis of Propositional ‘How’. with Marcin Morzycki at The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Santa Cruz, California. May 5-7. [abstract] | [presentation]
2022. Monotonicity enables degree modification in Ktunaxa: an investigation of the intensifier wiⱡiⱡ. The 12th Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas, Ottawa, Ontario. Oct. 13-15. [abstract] | [presentation]
2022. Instrument Names, Bare Singulars, and Event Kinds. with Daniel Greeson and Marcin Morzycki at The 58th Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago, Illinois. April 15-17. [abstract] | [presentation]
2019. The child acquisition of presuppositions: a corpus study. Harvard Lab for Developmental Studies Internship Program. Cambridge, Massachusetts. August 16.