| Employment | |
| present | Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley |
| Education | |
| 2010 | Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. Dissertation: The syntax and semantics of do so anaphora. Committee: Line Mikkelsen (chair), Alice Gaby, Andrew Garrett, and Johanna Nichols |
| 2006 | M.A., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2003 | B.A. with highest distinction, Linguistics and Spanish, University of Iowa. |
| Publications | |
| to appear | With Molly Babel, Andrew Garrett, and Maziar Toosarvandani. Descent and diffusion in language diversification:A study of Western Numic dialectology. International Journal of American Linguistics [pdf] |
| 2012 | With Molly Babel and Maziar Toosarvandani. A phonetic sketch of Mono Lake Northern Paiute. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 42(1). [pdf] |
| 2011 | With Line Mikkelsen and Maziar Toosarvandani. A defective auxiliary in Danish. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 23:245-298 [pdf] |
| 2008 | With Gabriela Caballero, Nicole Marcus, Teresa McFarland, Anne Pycha, Maziar Toosarvandani, Suzanne Wilhite, and Johanna Nichols. Nonsyntactic ordering effects in noun incorporation. Linguistic Typology 12(3), 383-421. [pdf] |
| 2007 | With Line Mikkelsen and Maziar Toosarvandani. Verb Phrase Pronominalization in Danish: Deep or Surface Anaphora?. In Erin Brainbridge and Brian Agbayani, eds. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Western Conference on Linguistics, 183-195. Fresno, CA: Department of Linguistics, California State, Fresno. [pdf] |
| Edited Volumes | |
| 2012 | With Zhenya Antic, Molly Babel, Charles Chang, Jisup Hong, Fang-Chun Liu, Maziar Toosarvandani, and Yao Yao (eds.) Proceedings of the Thiry-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society. |
| 2005 | With Charles Chang, Yuni Kim, David Mortensen, Mischa Park-Doob, and Maziar Toosarvandani (eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society. |
| Presentations | |
| 2011 | Syntactic effects on the semantic restiction on do so.Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 8. |
| 2010 | Pluractionality in Mono Lake Northern Paiute and Oregon Northern Paiute. Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of Texas, Arlington, February 8. |
| 2009 | TAM in Mono Lake Northern Paiute. Presented to the Group on American Indian Languages, Berkeley, California, Novermber 18. |
| 2008 | With Molly Babel and Maziar Toosarvandani. A phonetic sketch of Mono Lake Northern Paiute. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Chicago, Illinois, January 4. [poster] |
| 2007 | Pluractionality in Northern Paiute: Mono Lake Paiute and Oregon Nothern Paiute. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Anaheim, California, January 7. [handout] |
| 2007 | With Molly Babel, Maziar Toosarvandani, and Andrew Garrett. Descent vs. diffusion in language diversification: Mono Lake Paiute and Western Numic dialectology. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Anaheim, California, January 6. [handout] |
| 2006 | With Line Mikkelsen, Ange Strom-Weber, and Maziar Toosarvandani. Danish Verb Phrase Anaphora: Deep or surface? Poster session at WECOL 06, California State University, Fresno, October 27-29. [abstract | poster] |
| 2006 | With Reiko Kataoka and Maziar Toosarvandani. Pluractional reduplication in Northern Paiute. Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, August 24. [handout] |
| 2006 | With Line Mikkelsen, Ange Strom-Weber, and Maziar Toosarvandani. Gøre-support in Danish. 21st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, University of California, Santa Cruz, April 1. [handout] |
| 2006 | With Maziar Toosarvandani. A non-syntactic template for syntactic noun incorporation. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 7. [handout] |
| Teaching | |
| Spring 2012 | Instructor. Linguistics 1RB. Endangered Languages: What we lose when a language dies (Linguistic Writing Workshop). University of California, Berkeley. |
| Fall 2011 | Instructor. Linguistics R6. Endangered Languages: What we lose when a language dies (Linguistic Writing Workshop). University of California, Berkeley. |
| Spring 2011 | Instructor. Linguistics R6. Endangered Languages: What we lose when a language dies (Linguistic Writing Workshop). University of California, Berkeley. |
| Fall 2010 | Instructor. Linguistics R6. Endangered Languages: What we lose when a language dies (Linguistic Writing Workshop). University of California, Berkeley. |
| Fall 2010 | Instructor. Linguistics 55AC. The American Languages. University of California, Berkeley. |
| Spring 2010 | Instructor. Linguistics R6. Endangered Languages: What we lose when a language dies (Linguistic Writing Workshop). University of California, Berkeley. |
| Fall 2009 | Graduate Student Instructor. Linguistics 302. Training for Linguistics Teaching Assistants. Instructor: Keith Johnson. University of California, Berkeley. |
| Spring 2008 | Graduate Student Instructor. Linguistics 120. Syntax. Instructor: Line Mikkelsen. University of California, Berkeley. |
| Spring 2007 | Graduate Student Instructor. Linguistics 120. Syntax. Instructor: Alice Gaby. University of California, Berkeley. |
| Fall 2006 | Graduate Student Instructor. Linguistics 55AC. The Languages of America. Instructor: Leanne Hinton. University of California, Berkeley. |
| Fellowships and Grants | |
| 2008 | Graduate Division Summer Grant, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2008 | With Molly Babel and Maziar Toosarvandani. Sven and Astrid Liljeblad Endowment, University of Nevada, Reno, Mono Lake Northern Paiute Project, $4,630. |
| 2008 | With Molly Babel and Maziar Toosarvandani. Foundation for Endangered Languages Grant, Mono Lake Northern Paiute Project, $550. |
| 2007-08 | Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2007 | With Molly Babel and Maziar Toosarvandani. Jacobs Research Fund Group Grant, Mono Lake Northern Paiute Project, $4,000. |
| Service | |
| 2009 | Assistant to the director, 2009 Linguistic Institute. |
| 2007 | Organizer, 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, April 27-29. |
| 2006 | Organizer, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 10-12. |
| 2006 | Mentor, Breath of Life Workshop for California Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2005-2006 | Graduate student representative to the Infrastructure Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2005 | Organizer, 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 13-16. |
| Professional Membership |
| Linguistic Society of America Society for the Indigenous Languages of the Americas |
| Language Skills |
| English, native Spanish, advanced German, intermediate Basque, beginning Northern Paiute, fieldwork |
| Computer Skills |
| XML, XSLT, LaTeX |