Upcoming and recent papers

2025. Pathological Questions, focus, and unacceptable ellipsis (upcoming). To appear in SALT34 Proceedings

2024.Conditional Questions as Matrix Questions with Syntactic Reconstruction (with Tue Trinh). Submitted.

2024.Decomposing logophoric pronouns: a presuppositional account of logophoric dependencies (with Abigail Anne Bimpeh, Imke Driemel and Silvia Silleresi). Under review, Natural Language Semantics.

2024.Core Concepts and Indirect Alternatives: On the Anti-Duality of Quantifiers (with Paloma Jeretič, Aurore Gonzalez, Uli Sauerland, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Marie-Christine Meyer). Under review, Journal of Semantics.

2024.Questions and Connectives (with Tue Trinh). Under review, Proceedings of TLLM.

2023.Free Choice and Presuppositional Exhaustification (with Guillermo Del Pinal and Uli Sauerland). Published in Semantics and Pragmatics.

2023.Excursive Questions (with Tue Trinh). Open Linguistics.

2023.Strict Logophors in Ewe, Yoruba, and Igbo (with Abigail Anne Bimpeh, Imke Driemel and Silvia Silleresi). Published in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27.

2023.An Algebra of Thought that predicts key aspects of language structure (with Uli Sauerland, Cory Bill, Abigail Bimpeh, Aron Hirsch, Paloma Jeretič, Marie-Christine Meyer, Andreea Nicolae, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Artemis Alexiadou). To appear in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27.

2023. On Sloppy non-pronominals (with Danny Fox). Email me for a copy.

2022. Pre-DP only is a propositional operator at LF: A new argument from ellipsis (with Aron Hirsch and Tue Trinh). SALT32 Proceedings. [There’s also a recorded talk with handout (WCCFL40); and a poster (SALT32)]

2022. Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo: Variation and competition (with Abigail Anne Bimpeh, Imke Driemel and Silvia Silleresi). To appear in WCCFL40 Proceedings. [slides; paper]

Recent

2022. A prosodic theory of possible ellipsis remnants (with Justin Colley). Published in Glossa 7(1).

2021. Presuppositional Exhaustification (with Guillermo Del Pinal and Uli Sauerland). Published in Semantics and Pragmatics vol. 14.

Ph.D Thesis

2021. Fake Features and Valuation From Context (MIT Dissertation).

Older

2021. Composing CPs: Evidence from Disjunction and Conjunction (with Tanya Bondarenko). Published in SALT30 Proceedings.

2020. Against Tanglewood by Focus Movement: a Reply to Erlewine and Kotek 2018 (with Nick Longenbaugh). Published in Linguistic Inquiry 51(3).

2019. Fake Indexicals and their Sensitivity to Focus. Published in Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS) 49.

2018. Features on bound pronouns: an argument against syntactic agreement (with Nick Longenbaugh). Published in Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS) 48.

2018. Equational-intensional relative clauses with syntactic reconstruction (with Ezer Rasin). Published in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22.

2017. A Unified Existential Semantics for Bare Conditionals (with Moshe E. Bar-Lev). Published in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21.