Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I am a postdoctoral associate at MIT Linguistics and will be an associate professor at UCL Linguistics starting in fall 2024. I hold a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and was previously a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. I am primarily interested in syntax and its interfaces. Most of my research focuses on Malayo-Polynesian languages and indigenous languages of the Caucasus.
Research interests: argument alignment, polysynthesis, ergativity, fieldwork methodologies, case and licensing, syntactic locality, linguistic typology.
I'm passionate about my dog Boonie, dog training, and animal welfare advocacy.
I occasionally post about our training journey on Instagram: @booniethegoodboy.
(If I'm not working or hanging out with Boonie, I'm probably at the local circus studio learning to swing around like a monkey.)