Words I’ve researched.

My linguistic research interests lie at the intersection of formal semantics and historical linguistics. My undergraduate thesis
The diachronic semantics of Diyari marla: A formal correspondence between contexts, scales, and polarity
posits a formal semantic pathway for a lexeme attested as an intensifier, comparative, and aspectual negative polarity item.

My thesis was advised by Josh Phillips and was initiated and developed in Claire Bowern’s Yale lab focusing on the study and documentation of Australian languages.
It served as the basis for a FoDS paper (w/ Phillips, Jack Sullivan & Bowern), a NELS poster (w/ Phillips & Bowern), and a SALT poster and paper (w/ Phillips & Bowern).

The FoDS 7 abstract is included above and also accesible here.