About

I am a linguist specializing in syntax and morphology through description and documentation of variation in languages of Indonesia. My research focuses on how voice is mapped onto the verbal phrase, where I investigate the role of voice morphology, the status of nominals, and the interaction of voice, tense, and aspect. I have conducted fieldwork on fifteen under- and undescribed languages of Borneo, where I am deeply committed to providing accessible description and documentation. My work combines formal syntactic theory with typological and comparative description based on primary fieldwork.

I am a currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore (under the NUS Syntax/Semantics Lab). I received my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2020.

Areas of interest

Much of my work has focused on providing syntactic description on understudied languages of West Kalimantan. My dissertation provided description of clausal syntax (with a focus on voice and A'-movement) on ten languages (five Malayic and five Land Dayak). I have two upcoming papers that expand upon this; one which discusses voice in Land Dayak languages in-depth, and one which discusses morphosyntactic variation in Kendayan-Salako (Malayic languages of Borneo).

I also have a particular interest in the Malayic nasal prefix (me)N-. I gave an invited talk at the joint ISMIL-ISLOJ on typological perspectives of this prefix, and have proposed that (me)N- should be decomposed into two prefixes. I presented on this at WCCFL, AFLA, and developed this into a paper with Mitcho Erlewine recently.

Languages I work on

Upcoming

Archival collections

Teaching