Research

Dissertation

Submitted | TP inside subject nominalizations: Evidence from Oshiwambo (with Olivia Ndapo) [link]
Submitted | Korean case stacking: Case, discourse and the nominal template. (with Yining Nie) [link]
To appear | Subject nominalizations in Setswana. Proceedings of LSA 2024. [link]
2024 | Syntactic negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) agent nominalizations. Syntax. (with Selikem Gotah) [link] (A previous version of this work appeared in the Proceedings of NELS 53. [link])
2023 | Linearly adjacent allomorphs and syntactic copies. Proceedings of CLS 58. [link]
2023 | Introducing arguments beyond the thematic domain. Proceedings of LSA 2023. [link]
2022 | Korean case stacking and the nominal template. Proceedings of PLC 45. (with Yining Nie) [link]
2020 | Speech act phrases in Korean nominal structures. Proceedings of JK 27. [link]
2020 | Prosody and EPP in Swahili. Proceedings of AMP 2019. [link]
2019 | Gender stacking in Swahili. Master’s thesis. Sogang University. [link]
2019 | Nominal mismatches in Swahili locatives. Proceedings of LSA 2019. (with Doo-Won Lee) [link]
2018 | Suppletion in serial verb constructions. Studies in Generative Grammar 28(3). [link]
2018 | Suppletive allomorphy conditioned by humbleness in Korean. Proceedings of BLS 44. (with Minjung Kim) [link]

In prep. | Language model performance on politeness dependencies in Hindi and Korean. (with Gurmeet Kaur and Shaonan Wang) [link]
2023 | Do language models know how to be polite?. Proceedings of SCiL 2023. (with Shaonan Wang) [link]
2023 | Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models. Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). (with 443 authors) [link]
2022 | Can language models capture syntactic associations without surface cues? A case study of reflexive anaphor licensing in English control constructions. Proceedings of SCiL 2022. (with Sebastian Schuster) [link]
2021 | NOPE: A Corpus of Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in English. Proceedings of CoNLL 2021. (with +Alicia Parrish, +Sebastian Schuster, +Alex Warstadt, Omar Agha, Zhuoye Zhao, Samuel R. Bowman, and Tal Linzen) [+ = equal contribution] [link]
2021 | Does Putting a Linguist in the Loop Improve NLU Data Collection? Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2021. (with Alicia Parrish, Will Huang, Omar Agha, Nikita Nangia, Alex Warstadt, Karmanya Aggarwal, Emily Allaway, Tal Linzen, and Samuel R. Bowman) [link]

2023 | Formality weakening and the underspecified expressive yo in Korean. In Elin McCready and Hiroki Nomoto, editors. Discourse Particles in Asian Languages. Routledge. [link] & [preprint]

2024 | Subject nominalizations in Ewe and Oshiwambo (joint work with Selikem Gotah and Olivia Ndapo). Yale Syntax Reading Group.
2023 | A in A’-domain. Implicational Hierarchies in Clausal Complementation Workshop.
2023 | Addressees as applied arguments. S-Lab at University of Maryland, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle & Hansung University Workshop.
2022 | Introducing arguments in and out of the thematic domain: Evidence from Korean case markers. Penn Syntax Lab, MIT Syntax Square, Yale Syntax Reading Group.

Upcoming | Tense-associated nominalization in Oshiwambo. ACAL 55, LSA 2024. (with Olivia Ndapo) [talk, talk]
2024 | PCC and honorification: the higher nominal blocks person agreement with the lower nominal. CLS 60. [poster]
2024 | Agent nominalization without of-insertion in Setswana. LSA 2024. [poster]
2023 | Introducing arguments in and out of the thematic domain. JK 30. [poster]
2023 | Negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) agent nominalization. NELS 53, CLS 58. (with Selikem Gotah) [poster, talk]
2022 | Linearly adjacent allomorphs and syntactic copies. CLS 58. [poster]
2021 | Korean case stacking and the nominal template. PLC 45. (with Yining Nie) [talk]
2021 | Expressives and non-repeatability in Korean. LSA 2021. [poster]
2020 | Swahili locatives and underspecification in PF. LSA 2020. (with Inkie Chung) [talk]
2019 | Speech act phrases in Korean nominal structures. JK 27. [poster]
2019 | Prosodic boundaries and EPP in Swahili. AMP 2019. [poster]
2019 | Nominal mismatches in Swahili locatives. LSA 2019. (with Doo-Won Lee) [poster]
2018 | Case drop and idioms in Korean. Psycholinguistics Round Table 2018. (with Michael Barrie) [talk]
2018 | Suppletive allomorphy of pronouns conditioned by humbleness in Korean. BLS 44. (with Minjung Kim) [poster]

2023 | Do language models know how to be polite?. SCiL 2023. (with Shaonan Wang) [poster]
2022 | Considering all the stars visible: MEG correlates of English post-nominal modification. SNL 2022. (with Nigel Flower and Liina Pylkkänen) [poster]
2022 | Can language models capture syntactic associations without surface cues? A case study of reflexive anaphor licensing in English control constructions. SCiL 2022. (with Sebastian Schuster) [talk]
2021 | NOPE: A Corpus of Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in English. CoNLL 2021. (with +Alicia Parrish, +Sebastian Schuster, +Alex Warstadt, Omar Agha, Zhuoye Zhao, Samuel R. Bowman, and Tal Linzen) [+ = equal contribution] [talk]
2021 | Does Putting a Linguist in the Loop Improve NLU Data Collection? EMNLP 2021. (with Alicia Parrish, Will Huang, Omar Agha, Nikita Nangia, Alex Warstadt, Karmanya Aggarwal, Emily Allaway, Tal Linzen, and Samuel R. Bowman) [talk]