I am a SSHRC postdoctoral researcher at Memorial University of Newfoundland. I received my doctorate in 2023 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where my dissertation focused on associative plurals. I received a BA (2015) and an MA (2016) from the University of Toronto.  My research focuses on typological questions in the domain of semantics and syntax, which I investigate using computational, fieldwork, and theoretical methodologies.

My formal linguistics work is centred on cross-linguistic patterns semantics and syntax, and uses a combination of fieldwork and cross-linguistic comparison. Particular topics of interest include relativization, plurality, quantification, and the behaviour of bare noun languages. The empirical focus of my work is on Dene languages of the Canadian subarctic, in particular T???ch? Yat??? and the Slavey dialect continuum. 

In the domain of computational linguistics, my work focuses on modeling syntactic parameter learning, both in order to explore what kind of algorithms might best approximate a human learner, and as a means of testing how the shape of the parameter space might influence observable typology.

My CV can be downloaded here