Hello!
I'm a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics and a Jackman Junior Fellow in the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. I work primarily within semantics, typology and psycholinguistics. My dissertation supervisors are Suzi Lima and Barend Beekhuizen.
My main research utilizes theoretical and experimental approaches to investigate countability in the nominal and verbal domains across the world's languages. Separately, I also do descriptive and theoretical work on semantic aspects of Macuxi (Carib), an indigenous language spoken in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. Topics I work on include: pluractionality, space and motion.
Other languages I've worked on include: colloquial Singapore English, Malay/Indonesian, Mbyá Guaraní and Gilaki (Northwestern Iranian). I am also broadly interested in language documentation, ethical fieldwork practices, and the description of understudied languages.
Recent and upcoming:
Upcoming: I will be presenting my work on space and motion in Macuxi at:
the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) at UC Santa Barbara in April
the 2023 Canadian Linguistic Association Conference at York University, Toronto, in May
AMAZONICAS IX (International Colloquium on the Structure of Amazonian Languages) at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, in June
January 2023: I've formed my dissertation committee and am officially a PhD candidate!
December 2022:
I've successfully defended my second Generals Paper: po, ka and everything in-between: a study of spatial expressions in Macuxi!
I presented a talk, 'Toward a mapping of spatial relations in Macuxi' at the 4th Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Indigenous Languages of Latin America (TOMILLA) Workshop (in collaboration with Francisco França Miguel) at the University of Toronto.