Chochenyo language
I am working with Ohlone language activists
Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino and other Muwekma tribal members on Chochenyo language revitalization.
Expressing sameness and difference
Together with
Dan Hardt at the Copenhagen Business School, I am investigating the syntax and semantics of the adjectives
same and
different. Building on our 2015 paper in Linguistics and Philosophy, we are pursuing a presuppositional analysis of these items and extending it to multiple occurrence of
same/
different.
Resumption, Phases and Chain Reduction
In joint work with
Boris Harizanov at Stanford we are developing an understanding of resumption as arising, at least in some cases, from one-fell-swoop movement to an adjoined position. This landing site is too far from the external Merge position, forcing spell-out of the lower chain link or copy. A case study of Danish VP Left Dislocation is offered as evidence in our 2018 NELS paper.
DP structure and definiteness marking
Together with Jorge Hankamer at UCSC, I've been
investigating the morphosyntax of definiteness marking in
Scandinavian languages, primarily Danish, and its interactions
with the internal structure of DPs in these languages, including
attributive adjectives, relative clauses, and PP modifiers. We
are currently working on definiteness marking in DPs containing
clausal complements to N.