I am a 5th year PhD student in Linguistics at UMass. My main interests are in formal semantics and pragmatics of natural language. I also do psycholinguistic research, especially on semantic and pragmatic processing.
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Teaching
This semester (Spring 2008), I am a TA for Angelika Kratzer’s ‘Ling 510: Intro to Semantics‘.
Some Recent Work
2008. Two Types of Bridging with Two Types of Definites.
- Job talk at the University of Pennsylvania, February 14th 2008.
- Linguistics Colloquium (job talk) at Stanford University, February 26th 2008.
2008. Bridging with Two Types of Definites in German - Relational Anaphora and Situational Uniqueness. Linguistics Colloquium (job talk) at UC Santa Cruz, January 9th 2008.
2008. Two Types of Definites - Bridging, Situational Uniqueness, and Anaphoricity. Talk presented at 2008 LSA meeting in Chicago. [See newer, extended version of handout above]
2007. Processing Presupposed Content. Journal of Semantics 24(4): 373-416; doi: 10.1093/jos/ffm011 [Full paper freely available from Journal website if you click here]
2007. Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu. To appear in Aboh, Hartmann & Zimmermann (eds.) Focus Strategies in African Languages: The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic. Berlin: de Gruyter. [draft (pdf)]
2006. A morphological distinction between bound and free definites. Poster presented at the OSU workshop on Presupposition Accommodation (original in Powerpoint, Handout version (pdf)).
2006. On NEEDING propositions and LOOKING FOR properties. (Proceedings of SALT XVI)
2006. Generality of Effects in item analyses. Manuscript (pdf)
[Sketch of an idea that I contributed to the discussion of the interpretation of F2 in psycholinguistics in connection with a paper by Kenneth Forster]
