Past work and drafts
I work mostly on the syntax-semantics interface, with interests in 'non-lexicalist' or 'neo-constructionist' syntax. Some of my narrower interests include (but are not limited to) argument structure, ellipsis, and compositionality 'below the word level'. So far, I have been looking at (the somewhat unrelated topics of) deverbal nominalizations, question-formation, and quantifiers. This last project involves carrying on a lot of work from UMD, which investigates how quantifiers are interpreted in real time. I am also interested in the internal structure of quantifiers, and whether that can tell us anything about how syntax and semantics can or must interact.
Works in progress
Current projects include:
The morphosyntax of Gujarati adjectives and adverbs
The syntax and semantics of the Hindi wh-system (including sluicing and scope-marking)
Building Subtraction: the internal structure of quantifier-words like most
Quantification online: more and most within-individuals
2023
A handout on some wh-constructions in Hindi (particularly on 'scope marking'). I provide new evidence from sluicing that, I argue, supports an indirect dependency account of scope marking, where all wh-elements are interpreted. This handout represents a very intermediate stage of development.
A poster, presented with Veronika Gvozdovaitė at CreteLing regarding some problems with the theory of "contextual allosemy", proposed in some recent implementations of Distributed Morphology.
A handout for a talk discussing the existential closure of events. I argue that, while event variables are introduced with verbs, it is higher in the sentence that they are bound by a quantifier. (Presented at The Meaning Meeting. Comments welcome.)
2022
An overview of Paul Pietroski's book, 'Conjoining Meanings', written for proselytizing purposes: 'Introducing Internalism'
BA Thesis - Are there linguistically guaranteed inferences? Semantic atomism versus contemporary syntactic theory
Other
LaTeX for syntacticians: an overview document for a workshop at the University of Maryland Language Science Center in January 2024.
Outreach
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I was President of the Oxford University Linguistics Society. I organized our events: interviews with a number of interviews with linguists and philosophers of language, conducted mostly over Zoom. I have linked here the ones I organized.
Interviews (in alphabetical order):