About me

Welcome! I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Language Contact and Cognition Lab working with Marlyse Baptista in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. I received a PhD in Linguistics from New York University. My advisor was Alec Marantz.

My research primarily focuses on syntax and morphology. One of my ongoing projects focuses on how nominal arguments are represented and licensed in syntax. I also examine the syntactic size of (non-)derived nominals by drawing evidence from understudied and underrepresented Bantu and Kwa family languages.

My research also focuses on evaluating large language models (LLMs) on tasks related to linguistic dependencies, including, but not limited to, agreement, anaphor binding, control, and politeness. I am also interested in how LMs handle low-resource and typologically diverse languages.

Research interests

• Nominal structure
• Argument structure
• Case & discourse markers
• (L)LM performance