My research focuses on theoretical syntax, semantics, and morphology.

Selected Papers and Talks

• Upcoming: Deriving Verb Classes: Where Root Semantics Meets Syntax. Verb Concepts, Montréal, October, 2008.
• Arguments for pseudo-resultative predicates. Submitted.
• 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.

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in general linguistics, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics. In Fall 2008, I'll be teaching:

• The Humanity of Language (ALS 176)
• Psycholinguistics (ALS 335/535 & PSY 370)