I'm assistant professor of linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. I got my PhD at UMass Amherst in 2010, with co-chairs Angelika Kratzer and Rajesh Bhatt.

I work in syntax and semantics. A lot of my work is concerned with Nez Perce, an indigenous language of the American inland northwest. Nez Perce is an interesting language for philosophers to know about on several counts. It lacks simple necessity modals (see Modals Without Scales), for instance, and it indexes spatial notions on the verb in a way similar to tense marking (see Events in Space). It also barely makes a mass-count distinction, and readily allows "monstrous" embedded indexicals (see N…

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