Associate Professor
Linguistics | Psychology and Language Sciences
University College London
I am an associate professor at UCL Linguistics. I completed a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Chicago and previously held postdoctoral positions at MIT and Stanford University. I am primarily interested in syntax and its interfaces. Most of my research focuses on Malayo-Polynesian languages and indigenous languages of the Caucasus.
Research interests: argument alignment, polysynthesis, ergativity, fieldwork methodologies, case and licensing, syntactic locality, linguistic typology.
I'm passionate about my dog Boonie, dog training, and animal welfare advocacy.
I occasionally post about our training journey on Instagram: @booniethegoodboy.
(If I'm not working or hanging out with Boonie, I'm probably at the local circus studio.)