About me

Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at NYU. I recently defended my dissertation. My advisor is 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 (non-)thematic domains. 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 (and human participants) on tasks related to linguistic dependencies, including, but not limited to, agreement, anaphor binding, control, and politeness. My research so far suggests that large language models do not fully recognize these linguistic dependencies. I am also interested in how language models handle low-resource and typologically diverse languages.

Research interests

• Argument structure
• Nominal structure
• Case & discourse markers
• Linguistic dependencies