General

I am a sixth year PhD student in lingusitics at Harvard University. I am currently dissertating, and my topic is (morpho)semantics and typology of multifunctional particles, with a special focus on the particles in Sakha and Tuvan. I am advised by Jonathan Bobaljik and Gennaro Chierchia.

My main research interests are semantics, morphology, and the syntax-semantics interface. I have special interest in the Turkic languages, particularly the Siberian branch. The main data points that I find interesting in these areas are polarity-sensitivity, free-choice phenomena, focus, allosemy and polysemy, information structures, and contextual allomorphy.

A particular topic that I find endlessly fascinating is the many roles that can be performed by a single morph(eme). For example, English either has at least three distinct meanings: a post-focal additive (I didn't study for the test, either) which functions akin an NPI version of too/also, a focus marker with or that strengthens the exclusivity implicature of disjunction (You may drink either coffee or tea), and a free-choice-ish determiner (You can find a bathroom on either side of the train). For morphs with such multifunctionality, does the lexicon feature multiple different entries and if so, how are they linked? Or rather, is there a single unified denotation for these elemenents, and if so, how do such elements come to mean different things? In particular, my work seeks to approach the constellation of multifunctional elements within a crosslinguistic perspective, where certain subregularities can be found among clusters of particles.

I am also an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.



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