Linguistics

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I am a Linguistics PhD student at the University of Chicago. My primary focus at the moment is morphosyntax and how it interacts with semantics, while being a vigilante by night against “How many languages do you speak?” and Eskimo words for snow.

 

Currently, I am working on the derivational properties of class terms in Vietnamese compounds, with special attention to the structure of classifier phrases and its relation to the count/mass distinction. I have previously worked on locality domains of (idiosyncratic) meaning and category assignment in Modern Hebrew blends.

 

I look forward to working further with Southeast Asian languages in the future, and the fluid nature of morphosyntactic categories in many of those languages.

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Papers

2011. “Idiomatic Root Merge in Modern Hebrew blends“. Proceedings of the Arizona Linguistics Circle 4, Coyote Papers: Working Papers in Linguistics 18.1: Linguistics Circle, Tucson.

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