I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA. I completed my PhD in Linguistics at MIT in 2018.

I research theoretical syntax and am especially interested in the syntax-morphology interface. Much of my work has centred around case, agreement, and movement, including (and especially) their interactions and their manifestations in ergative languages. I am also interested in the morphosyntactic properties of pronominal clitics, as well as the internal structure and formation of complex words.

I mostly investigate these topics in Inuktitut and other Inuit-Yupik-Unangan languages, as well as (more recently) in the San Juan Piñas variety of Mixtec (Tò’ōn Ndá’ví). The latter is part of long-term collaborative work with Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Juárez Chávez and other language experts, and students.

News

• New archive collection (Feb. 2026)—”Materiales del proyecto del idioma mixteco de San Juan Piñas” (w/ Claudia Juárez Chávez and others).
• New manuscript (Dec. 2025)—”Deriving clause incorporation in Inuktitut.”
• Talk at NELS 56 (Oct. 2025)—”Clitic coalescence in San Juan Piñas Mixtec at the syntax-phonology interface” (w/ Gabriela Caballero and Claudia Juárez Chávez).
• New paper in NLLT (2025)—”Morphological conditions on movement-chain resolution: Inuktitut noun incorporation revisited“.