Journal Articles
To appear, with Nicholas Rolle. Deconstructing subcategorization: Conditions on insertion vs. position. Linguistic Inquiry. [Early Access Oct 2022]
2022. Infixes really are (underlyingly) prefixes/suffixes: Evidence from allomorphy on the fine timing of infixation. Language 98(4): 641-682.
2022. Verbal plural allomorphy in Hunzib and its implications for the cyclicity of the morphosyntax-phonology interface. Glossa 7(1):1-25.
2020. Morphology before phonology: A case study of Turoyo (Neo-Aramaic). Morphology 30:135-184.
2019, with Philipp Weisser. Asymmetric Differential Object Marking in coordination: A problem for movement-based approaches. Linguistic Inquiry 50(3): 662-676.
2018. Licensing and Differential Object Marking: The view from Neo-Aramaic. Syntax 21(2): 112-159.
2016. The morphosyntax of aspect stacking in Northeastern Neo-Aramaic. Glossa 1(1):49, 1-39.
2015, with Coppe van Urk. Aspect splits without ergativity: Agreement asymmetries in Neo-Aramaic. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33:659-702.
2014. The syntax of OVS word order in Hixkaryana. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 32:1089-1104.
2020, with András Bárány (eds.). Case, agreement, and their interactions: New perspectives on differential argument marking. Linguistische Arbeiten, Mouton de Gruyter.
2018, with Ileana Paul and Jozina Vander Klok (eds.). Heading in the right direction: Linguistic Treats for Lisa Travis. Montreal, QC: McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25(1).
Edited Volumes
Other Publications
To appear, with Philipp Weisser. Minimalism and morphology. For The Cambridge Handbook of the Minimalist Program.
To appear. When size matters in infix allomorphy: A unique window into the morphology-phonology interface. In The size of things II. Language Science Press.
2020, with András Bárány. Introduction. In Case, agreement, and their interactions: New perspectives on differential argument marking. Linguistische Arbeiten, Mouton de Gruyter.
2020. Opacity in agreement. In Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme. Language Science Press.
2019. Nominal licensing is driven by valued (phi-)features. GLOW Short Report Proceedings. Nordlyd, 43.1: 15-29.
2018. Complex verbs and wordhood in Turoyo. In Heading in the right direction: Linguistic Treats for Lisa Travis. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics.
2018, with Byron Ahn. What's in a (English) reflexive? NELS 48 Proceedings.
2018, with Ümit Atlamaz. Reanalyzing Indo-Iranian “stems”: A case study of Adıyaman Kurmanji. Tu+ 1 Proceedings.
2017. Dropping the F-bomb: An argument for valued features as derivational time-bombs. NELS 47 Proceedings.
2015. Morphological reversal in Amadiya as late agreement. WCCFL 33 Poster Proceedings.
2015, with Lauren Winans, Nina Hyams, and Jessica Rett. Children’s comprehension of syntactically-encoded evidentiality. NELS 45 Proceedings.
2014. Apparent last resort agreement in Senaya ditransitives. NELS 43 Proceedings.
2014, with Coppe van Urk. A novel aspect split in Senaya. CLS 48 Proceedings.
2012. Two last resort phenomena in Senaya (Neo-Aramaic). In Theories of Everything. In Honor of Ed Keenan. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics.
2012, with Laura McPherson. Structural Person Case Constraint effects in progressives. WCCFL 30 Proceedings.
2012, with Coppe van Urk. Aspect-based agreement reversal in Neo-Aramaic. WCCFL 30 Proceedings.
2012. Hixkaryana: The syntax of Object Verb Subject word order. WCCFL 29 Poster Proceedings.
2012, with Ed Keenan. TP serialization in Malagasy. AFLA 18 Proceedings.
2009. News about the no-phrase: Specificational pseudoclefts in Malagasy. AFLA 16 Proceedings.
Submitted
& In Prep
In prep. On the (non-)transparency of infixes that surface at a morpheme juncture. (See handout below.)
In prep, with Bronwyn Bjorkman, Vrinda Chidambaram, Claire Halpert, Ruth Kramer, Sarah Murray, and Aida Talić. The morphology/syntax interface. Short monograph under contract for Elements in Generative Syntax. Cambridge University Press.
Selected Slides & Handouts
2021. On the (non-)transparency of infixes that surface at a morpheme juncture. Handout from a plenary talk at AIMM, Ohio State University.
2021. Evidence from infix allomorphy on the fine timing of the morphosyntax-phonology interface. Handout from a talk presented for a colloquium at Leipzig University.
2021, with Nicholas Rolle. Deconstructing subcategorization: Conditions on insertion versus position. Slides from a talk presented at LSA 2021.
2019. When allomorphy meets infixation: Cyclicity and separation. Handout from a talk presented at BCGL 12: Suppletion, allomorphy, and syncretism. CRISSP, KU Leuven.
2019. Morphology before phonology: A case study of Turoyo (Neo-Aramaic). Handout from a talk presented at LSA 93. New York City.
2018. The ins and outs of allomorphy in Turoyo (Neo-Aramaic). Handout from a talk presented at GLOW 41. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
2017, with Byron Ahn. What's in a (English) reflexive? Handout from a talk presented at NELS 48. University of Iceland.
2017. Nominal licensing is driven by valued (phi)-features. Slides from a talk at GLOW 40, Leiden University.
2016. A new model of nominal licensing. Handout from an invited talk given in the Syntax Brown Bag series. New York University.
2016. We just can’t agree about agreement. Handout of slides from a talk given on the panel on prospects for syntactic research over the next decade, at the UCLA Linguistics 50th Anniversary Celebration.
2016. Agreement in three parts: Match, Value, and Vocabulary Insertion. Slides from a talk given at LSA 90. Washington DC.
2015, with Ümit Atlamaz. Aspects of the Indo-Iranian “stem”. Handout from an invited talk given at Workshop on Aspect. Cornell University.
2015. Two ways to Agree in Neo-Aramaic. Handout from an invited talk given at Stony Brook University.
Theses
2014. Aspect and argument licensing in Neo-Aramaic. Doctoral Dissertation, UCLA.
2011. Hixkaryana: The derivation of OVS word order. Master’s Thesis, UCLA.