Papers and Presentations

Papers

to appear. "Dependent case by Agree: Ergative in Shawi." With Amy Rose Deal. Linguistic Inquiry.

2024. "The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs." With Virginia Dawson. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 42(3):955-1002.

2023. "An inclusive course on the history of phonetics." With Marc Garellek, Shai Nielson, and Tamara L. Rhodes. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, eds. Radek Skarnitzl and Jan Volín, 4229-4233.

2023. "The expression of time in Amahuaca switch-reference clauses." Languages 8(2), 134, special issue "Current Studies on Morpho-syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics: A View from the South American Lowlands and Beyond," eds. Maria Luisa Zubizarreta & Guillaume Thomas.

2023. "Cyclic expansion in Agree: Maximal projections as probes." Linguistic Inquiry 54(1):39-78.

2022. "Attitude reports without complementation: The case of Amahuaca." In Proceedings of SALT32, eds. John R. Starr, Juhyae Kim, & Burak Öney, 165-184.

2022. "Accounting for parallels between inverse marking and the PCC." In NELS 52: Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 1, eds. Özge Bakay, Breanna Pratley, Eva Neu, & Peyton Deal, 163-176.

2022. "Disharmony and the Final-over-Final Condition in Amahuaca." Linguistic Inquiry 53(4):809-822.

2020. "Sub-Saharan Africa." With Larry M. Hyman, Hannah Sande, Florian Lionnet, and Nicholas Rolle. In The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody, eds. Carlos Gussenhoven & Aoju Chen, 183-194.

2019. "Object-sensitive switch-reference and insatiable probes." In NELS 49: Proceedings of the Forth-Ninth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 1, eds. Maggie Baird & Jonathan Pesetsky, 173-186.

2019. "Amahuaca ergative as agreement with multiple heads." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 37(3):785-823.

2019. "Attributive adjectives in Tswefap: Vague predicates in a language with degrees." In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23, vol. 1, eds. M. Teresa Espinal, Elena Castroviejo, Manuel Leonetti, Louise McNally, & Cristina Real-Puigdollers, 285-300.

2019. "Niger-Congo linguistic features and typology." With Larry M. Hyman, Nicholas Rolle, Hannah Sande, Peter Jenks, Florian Lionnet, John Merrill, and Nico Baier. In The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, ed. H. Ekkehard Wolff, 191-245.

2018. "Against non-reference-tracking theories of switch-reference." Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 3(29):1-9.

2017. "Two types of binding: Evidence from Tswefap pronominals." In NELS 47: Proceedings of the Forth-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 1, eds. Andrew Lamont & Katerina Tetzloff, 173-184.

2017. "Social network structure, accommodation, and language change." In UC Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Lab Annual Report (2016), ed. Keith Johnson, 83-102.

Selected Presentations

2024. "Global case splits via local Agree." Workshop: Myopia in Grammar. University of Leipzig, Germany. June.

2024. "Apparent cross-clausal agreement with obliques in Kalaallisut is prolepsis." With Line Mikkelsen, Michelle Yuan, and Ellen Thrane. WSCLA27. University of Toronto, Canada. April.

2022. "Attitude reports without complementation: The case of Amahuaca." SALT32. Colmex and UNAM, Mexico. June.

2021. "Accounting for parallels between inverse marking and the PCC." NELS 52. Rutgers (virtual). October.

2021. "Switch-reference in Amahuaca: Syntactic and semantic implications." Department of Linguistics Colloquium. MIT (virtual). October.

2020. "Altruistic inversion and doubling in Tiwa morphology." With Nicholas Rolle and Virginia Dawson. LSA. New Orleans, LA. January.

2020. "Distinguishing switch-reference and relativization in Amahuaca." SSILA. New Orleans, LA. January.

2019. "Cyclicity in Agree: Maximal projections as probes." Department of Linguistics Colloquium. USC, Los Angeles, CA. November.

2019. "Post-syntactic altruism." With Nicholas Rolle and Virginia Dawson. NELS 50. MIT, Cambridge, MA. October.

2019. "The cyclic nature of Agree: Maximal projections as probes." LSA. New York, NY. January.

2019. "Feature sharing and functional heads in concord." With Virginia Dawson. LSA. New York, NY. January.

2018. "Cyclicity in Agree: Maximal projections as probes." Interaction of Grammatical Building Blocks Colloquium. University of Leipzig, Germany. December.

2018. "Switch-reference as multiple agreement with cyclic expansion." The Multiple Agreement across Domains 2018 Workshop. Leibniz-ZAS, Germany. November.

2018. "Cyclic expansion in Agree: Maximal projections as probes." NELS 49. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. October.

2018. "Attributive adjectives in Tswefap: Vague predicates in a language with degrees." SuB 23. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. September.

2018. "Exceed-comparative languages and the Degree Abstraction Parameter." CLS 54. University of Chicago, IL. April.

2018. "The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs." With Virginia Dawson. WCCFL 36. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. April.

2018. "Disharmony and the Final-Over-Final Condition in Amahuaca." GLOW 41. Budapest, Hungary. April.

2018. "Comparison in Tswefap: Evidence for degree abstraction in an exceed-comparative language." With Erik Hans Maier. ACAL 49. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. March.

2018. "When same subject is not the same: Multiple overt subjects in Amahuaca switch-reference." LSA. Salt Lake City, UT. January.

2017. "Exploring phonological diversity through principal component analysis." With Lev Michael. LSA. Austin, TX. January.

2017. "A' positions and case: Amahuaca nominative marking as case + focus." LSA. Austin, TX. January.

2016. "Two types of binding: Evidence from Tswefap pronominals." NELS 47. University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA. October.

2016. "Exploring typological diversity and its areal and genealogical basis in South America." With Lev Michael. Arealphonologie. Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Germany. July.

2015. "Two Bantu augment morphemes or one: Evidence from Bulu." With Jefferson Barlew. WOCAL 8. Kyoto University, Japan. August.

2015. "Areal features and linguistic reconstruction in Africa." With Larry M. Hyman, Peter S. E. Jenks, Geoffrey Bacon, Nicolas Baier, Matthew Faytak, Spencer Lamoureux, Florian Lionnet, John Merrill, Nicholas Rolle, and Hannah Sande. WOCAL 8, Workshop on Areal Phenomena in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa. Kyoto University, Japan. August.

2015. "A Bayesian phylogenetic internal classification of the Tupí-Guaraní family." With Lev Michael, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Zachary O'Hagan, Keith Bartolomei, Diamantis Sellis, and Erin Donnelly. LSA. Portland, OR. January.

2014. "The interaction of verb and direct object tone in Bulu." ACAL 45. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. April.

2014. "The augment morpheme in Bulu." With Jefferson Barlew. LSA. Minneapolis, MN. January.

2014. "Exploring nominal reference in the field: Diagnostics plus results from Bulu." With Jefferson Barlew and Murat Yasavul. LSA. Minneapolis, MN. January.

Dissertation

2019. Agreement, case, and switch-reference in Amahuaca. University of California, Berkeley.

Edited Volumes

2019. Theory and Description in African Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. With Peter Jenks and Hannah Sande (eds.). Berlin: Language Science Press.

2016. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. With Virginia Dawson, Alice Shen, Amalia Horan Skilton, Geoff Bacon, Andrew Cheng, and Erik Hans Maier (eds.). Berkeley: University of California.

Archival Collections

2021+. UCSD Field Methods: Todos Santos Cuchumatán Mam, 2020-21. With Angela Ramirez, Sihun Jung, Jun Jie Lim, and Milad Mayel. California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Berkeley: University of California.

2016+. Tswefap Independent Elicitation Materials, 2016-14. With Guy Tchatchouang, Erik Hans Maier, and Evelyn Najarian. California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Berkeley: University of California.

2015+. Amahuaca Field Materials, 2015-07. With José Piño Bonangué, Celia Sampi Rios, Celia Soria Pérez, Rolando Soria Pérez, MPR, Zoila Piño Rios, and Juan Piño Miqueas. California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Berkeley: University of California.

2015+. Berkeley Field Methods: Tswefap, 2020-11. With Guy Tchatchouang, Geoff Bacon, Steven Bird, Andrew Cheng, Virginia Dawson, Larry M. Hyman, Anna Jurgensen, Erik Hans Maier, and Alice Shen. California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Berkeley: University of California.

Digital Resources

2015. South American Phonological Inventory Database v1.1.4. With Lev Michael, Tammy Stark, and Will Chang (compilers). Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource. Berkeley: University of California.