Publications
in prep. What to do about what to do? Root wh infinitives as deliberative non-canonical questions. with Colin Brown. Proceedings of the 56th North East Linguistics Society
under revision. Event Readings of Nouns, Mass Terms, and Bare Singulars in English. With Marcin Morzycki. Glossa
under revision. Modification and Modality. with Marcin Morzycki. Cambridge Handbook of Natural Language Modality.
2025. Non-speaker-oriented expressives in Ktunaxa. In Dan Zeman and Isidora Stojanovic (eds.) Topoi. 1-13 [PDF]
2025. The Twofold Nature of Degree Nominalizations: Degree Concepts and Qualities. with Ryan Bochnak, Adam Gobeski, and Marcin Morzycki. In Federica Longo and Daniele Panizza (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th Sinn und Bedeutung. [PDF]
2025. Building Adjunct Questions from Anaphors in Ktunaxa. with Marcin Morzycki and Kate Yangshuying Zhou. In Federica Longo and Daniele Panizza (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th Sinn und Bedeutung. [PDF]
2025. ‘As’ phrases as a window onto multidimensionality. In Yao Zhang, Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao, Youngdong Cho, and Yifan Wu (eds.) Proceedings of the 34th Semantics and Linguistics Theory. [PDF]
2024. Ktunaxa Ranges. In Ryan Bochnak, Eva Csipak, Lisa Matthewson, Marcin Morzycki, and Daniel Reisinger (eds.) The Title of This Volume is Shorter Than Its Contributions Are Allowed To Be: Papers in Honour of Hotze Rullmann. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.
2024. Responsible drivers and good passengers: the influence of subsective modification on nouns.In Geraldine Baumann, Daniel Gutzmann, Jonas Koopman, Kristina Liefke, Agata Renans and Tatjana Scheffler (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th Sinn und Bedeutung. [PDF]
2024. Propositional ‘How’ and Justification. With Marcin Morzycki. In Nikolas Webster, Yağmur Kiper, Richard Wang, and Sichen Larry Lyu (eds.) Proceedings of the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. [PDF]
2024. Instrument Names, Bare Singulars, and Event Kinds. With Daniel Greeson and Marcin Morzycki. In Lucas Fagen, Sam Gray, Quain, Stephanie Reyes, Irene Tang (eds.) Proceedings of the 58th Chicago Linguistics Society. [PDF]
2024. Monotonicity enables degree modification in Ktunaxa: an investigation of the intensifier wiⱡiⱡ, In Mariana Calderón-Corona, Polina Kasyanova and Eva Neu (eds.) Proceedings of the 12th Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas. [PDF]
Presentations
2026. The apprehensional reading of before. with JJ James, Bruce Oliver, Bailey Trotter, and Ryan Bochnak. 41st Northwest Linguistics Conference Vancouver, Canada. March 7-8
2025. What to do about what to do? Root wh infinitives as deliberative non-canonical questions. with Colin Brown. 56th North East Linguistics Society, New York City, United States. October 17-19. [poster]
2025. Subjective adjectives and as phrases. Invited Talk at the Developmental Neurolinguistics Laboratory at Université de Montréal, Canada. June 6. [slides]
2025. Event kind anaphora in Ktunaxa: the case of ‘qa’. 72nd Canadian Association of Lin-
guistics Conference, Montreal, Canada. June 16-18. [slides]
2025. The grammar of non-intersective modification. Linguistics outside of the classroom (LOC). University of British Columbia, Canada. April 4. [slides]
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. [slides]
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.[slides]
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. [slides]
2024. Building Adjunct Questions from Anaphors in Ktunaxa. with Marcin Morzycki and Kate Zhou. 29th Sinn und Bedeutung, Noto, Italy. September 16-19. [slides]
2024. Non-speaker-oriented Expressives in Ktunaxa and English. Invited Talk for Slurring Terms Across Languages Monthly Seminar, Virtual. June 4. [slides]
2024. Ontological puzzles of non-intersective adjectives and as phrases. Events. New Work on Their Ontology and Semantics, Nice, France. June 16-17. [slides]
2024. As- Phrases as a window onto multidimensionality. The 34th Semantics and Linguistics Theory. Rochester, New York. May 28-30. [poster]
2024. Expressive Language in Ktunaxa. Grad Student and Postdoc Research Day at UBC, Vancouver, Canada. May 15. [slides]
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. [slides]
2023. Responsible drivers and good passengers: the influence of subsective modification on nouns. 28th Sinn und Bedeutung, Bochum, Germany. Sep 6-8. [slides]
2023. A Modal Analysis of Propositional ‘How’. with Marcin Morzyck. The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Santa Cruz, California. May 5-7. [poster]
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. [slides]
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. [poster]
2019. The child acquisition of presuppositions: a corpus study. Harvard Lab for Developmental Studies Internship Program. Cambridge, Massachusetts. August 16.