Publications

To appear. Having space to sprout: Failed sprouting in sub-clausal ellipsis. In the Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Ryan Walter Smith. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

2023. The syntax of sluicing-like constructions in English. In the Proceedings of the 53rd Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, eds. Suet-Ying Lam and Satoru Ozaki, 267-281.  Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate Linguistics Student Association.

2022. Asymmetrical symmetry in Tigrinya object marking. In Angles of Object Agreement, eds. Andrew Nevins, Anita Peti-Stantić, Mark de Vos, and Jana Willer-Gold. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.

2021. Stripping and VP-Ellipsis in reduced temporal adverbs. Syntax 24:462-509.

2020. Nipped in the bud: Failed sprouting in QUD not-at-issue content. In the Proceedings of the 56th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, eds. Matthew Hewett, Corinne Kasper, Sanghee Kim, Naomi Kurtz, and James Waller.  Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.

2020. A remark on the economics of Quantifier Raising. Linguistic Inquiry 51:366-394.

2019. The multiple mechanisms for Mandarin sluices. With Borui Zhang. In the Proceedings of GLOW-in-Asia XII and SICOGG 21.

2018. Stripping in temporal adverbial constructions. In the Proceedings of the 2018 Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 3(68):1-15.

2017. Extraposition, polarity, and Late Merge. In A Schrift to Fest Kyle Johnson, eds. Nicholas LaCara, Keir Moulton, and Anne-Michelle Tessier, 305-312. Amherst, MA: Linguistics Open Access Publications.

2017.  When variable rebinding bleeds antecedent-contained deletion. In the Proceedings of the 46th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, eds. Christopher Hammerly and Brandon Prickett, 95-108. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate Linguistics Student Association.

2016. Rightward DP-movement licenses parasitic gaps: A reply to Postal 1994. Linguistic Inquiry 47:127-146.

2015. Extraposition of NPIs from NP. Lingua 164:25-44.

2015. Unbounded successive-cyclic rightward DP-movement. Lingua 162:1-31.

2015.  On the subclausal locality of Extraposition from NP. In the Proceedings of the 32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, eds. Ulrike Steindl, Thomas Borer, Huilin Fang, Alfredo García Pardro, Peter Guekguezian, Brian Hsu, Charlie O’Hara, and Iris Chuoying Ouyang, 159-170. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

2011. Processing null-operator structures. In UMOP 38: Processing Structure, eds. Jesse A. Harris and Margaret Grant. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Graduate Linguistics Student Association.

Theses

2015. Rightward Movement: A Study in Locality. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

2009. The syntax of relative clause constructions in Tigrinya. M.A. Thesis, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Talks

upcoming. Hyperagreement and Case-licensing in Tigrinya. With Gioia Cacchioli. Paper to be presented at the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at McGill University, Montreal. May 2-4.

2023. The syntax of modality in Tigrinya. With Gioia Cacchioli. Paper presented at the 16th Conference on Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA) at Masaryk University, Brno. September 21.

2023. The syntax of modality in Tigrinya. With Gioia Cacchioli. Talk given at the Université de Genève, Geneva. March 14.

2023. Wh-in-situ and sluicing-like constructions in English. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Cologne. March 8.

2023. The syntax of sluicing-like constructions in English. Paper presented at the 53rd North East Linguistic Society (NELS) meeting. Göttingen. January 12.

2023. A Gapping analysis of Across-the-Board T-to-C movement. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2023 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. January 7.

2022. A Gapping analysis of Across-the-Board T-to-C movement in English. Paper presented at the 36th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW), Chicago, IL. October 15.

2022. Having space to sprout. Talk given at the NYU ‘You’re on Mute’ Ellipsis Seminar. April 8.

2021. Having space to sprout: Failed sprouting in sub-clausal ellipses. Paper presented at the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), Tucson, AZ. April 9.

2020. Nipped in the bud: Failed sprouting in not-at-issue content.  Paper accepted for the 56th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS), Chicago, IL.  Cancelled.

2020.  Optionally obligatory object marking in Tigrinya.  Talk given at Oakland University, Rochester, MI. February 19.

2020.  The differential recoverability conditions of ellipses.  Talk given at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. January 22.

2019. The differential recoverability conditions of syntactic domains. Talk given at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. September 27.

2019. Asymmetrical symmetry in Tigrinya object marking.  Paper presented at the Object Agreement Across Barriers Conference 2019, Zagreb, Croatia. September 16.

2019. Optionally obligatory object marking in Tigrinya.  Talk given at the 20th Anniversary of Indigenous and Endangered Languages Lab, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. May 11.

2019. ‘Vehicle Stability’ in antecedent-contained deletions. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2019 Annual Meeting, New York, NY. January 3.

2019. Obligatory particles trigger presuppositions in Hurford conditionals. With Jon Coltz and Brian Reese.  Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2019 Annual Meeting, New York, NY. January 6.

2018. Currency in a semantic economy. Talk given at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. March 5.

2018. Currency in a semantic economy. Talk given at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. February 1.

2017. Ellipsis, parallelism, and the distribution of temporal adjuncts. Talk given at the University of Minnesota Institute of Linguistics Colloquium Series, Minneapolis, MN. September 15.

2017. A polarizing view of Extraposition from NP. Invited talk given at the Carleton College Linguistics Department, Northfield, MN. February 10.

2017. Bound-variable interpretations and the economics of Quantifier Raising. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2017 Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. January 5.

2016. Bound-variable interpretations are not currency for Quantifier Raising. Talk given at the University of Minnesota  Institute of Linguistics Colloquium Series, Minneapolis, MN. September 23.

2015. When variable rebinding bleeds antecedent-contained deletion. Paper presented at the 46th North East Linguistics Society (NELS) meeting, Concordia University, Montreal. October 16.

2015. On extraposing NPIs from NP and the mechanisms for extraposition. Paper presented for the Tri-College Linguistic Lecture Series, Haverford College, Haverford, PA. March 24th.

2015. The heterogeneity of Extraposition from NP. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2015 Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. January 10.

2013. Object marking and marking objects in the Tigrinya ditransitive construction(s). Paper presented at the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), University of Georgetown, Washington D.C. March 8.

2012. Structural constraints on antecedent retrieval: The view from adjunct clauses. Paper presented at the Workshop on Memory and Language, UMass, Amherst, MA. May 16.

2011. Parsing preposed DPs and the role of information structure. Poster presented at the ICESL Launch Workshop, UMass, Amherst, MA. April 1.

2009. The role of LF wh-movement in Tigrinya. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. April 9.

2008. The internal behavior of Tigrinya PPs: Head-movement and affixation by adjacency. Paper presented at The 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL). The University of Georgia, Athens, GA. April 19.

Posters

2021. No sprouting from VP-Ellipsis: Constraints on recovery and licensing. Poster presented at the 2021 Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA). January 8.

2019. Particles and polarity in ‘bad’ and ‘good’ Hurford Conditionals. With Jonathan Coltz, Dustin Chacón, and Brian Reese.  Poster presented at the 3rd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it), University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.  September 19-20.

2019. The multiple mechanisms for Mandarin sluices.  With Borui Zhang.  Poster presented at GLOW-in-Asia XII and SICOGG 21, Seoul, South Korea.  August 7.

2018. Stripping in Temporal Adverbial Constructions.  Poster presented at the 2018 Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), Salt Lake City, UT. January 5. [handout]

2014. Cyclic linearization and constraints on remnant movement. Poster presented at the 45th North East Linguistics Society (NELS) meeting, MIT, Cambridge, MA. October 31.

2014. The subclausal locality of Extraposition from NP. Poster presented at the 32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. March 8.

2013. Unbounded successive-cyclic rightward movement. Poster presented at the 37th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. March 23.