Assistant ProfessorResearch
In my current work, I'm pursuing the hypothesis that morphology is akin to syntax, in the tradition of Distributed Morphology, and exploring the predictions this makes for compositional semantics at the morphological level. To this end, I am working to intergrate the study of lexical and 'subatomic' meaning into the fold of formal semantics.
Selected Papers and Talks
If you would like a copy of any papers or handouts not linked to below, please e-mail me at the address above.
- Upcoming: Verb Classes and the Ontology of Roots. Roots: Word formation from the perspective of core lexical elements, Universität Stuttgart, June 11, 2009.
- On Null Causativization. In Search of Meaning, Ohio State University, October 18, 2008.
- Deriving Verb Classes: Where Root Semantics Meets Syntax. Verb Concepts, Montréal, October, 2008.
- Arguments for pseudo-resultative predicates. To appear in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
- Pseudo-resultatives and Root Creation Verbs. Syntax Series, University of Michigan. April 11, 2008.
- Deriving Verb Classes: Where Root Semantics Meets Syntax. Colloquium, Michigan State University. March 14, 2008.
- Different Results. Michigan Linguistics Society 37th Annual Meeting, November 10, 2007.
- The Roots of Verbs. NYU Dissertation, August 2007. Download PDF
- The Roots of Verbs. 2007 LSA Annual Meeting, January 5, 2007.
- On the Ontology of Category-Neutral Roots. CUNY Syntax Supper (Invited Talk), September 19, 2006.
- Finding arguments for pseudo-resultative predicates. GLOW 29, April 6-8, 2006.
- Finding arguments for pseudo-resultative predicates. Penn Linguistics Colloquium, February 24-26, 2006.
- Having Three HAVEs. CUNY Syntax Supper (Invited Talk), October 12, 2004.
- HAVE minus BE equals P. 19th Annual Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, June 3-5, 2004.
- To in two places and the dative alternation. Penn Linguistics Colloquium, February 27-29, 2004.