Research

Please feel free to email me about manuscripts.

Dissertation

How to Ignore Counterexamples: Homogeneity Across Times and Worlds (thesis)

My advisor and thesis supervisor was Lucas Champollion.

Journal Papers

Plural reference and exception tolerance in the semantics of habituals.
Rejected, resubmission in prep. (preprint)

Non-maximal conditionals in sequence. In preparation.

Aspectual ambiguities via verbal decomposition in Khoekhoe. In preparation.

Conference Proceedings Papers

Weak necessity modals as homogeneous pluralities of worlds. Proceedings of SALT 32. 2023. Joint work with Paloma Jeretič. (paper)

Testing Bayesian measures of relevance in discourse. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26. 2022 Joint work with Alex Warstadt. (paper)

Non-resolving responses to polar questions: A revision to the QUD theory of relevance. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24. 2020. Joint work with Alex Warstadt. (paper)

Manuscripts

Focus, QUD accommodation, and non-maximality. Manuscript. 2023

Variable telicity of degree achievements: a unified perspective. Manuscript. 2019.

Conference Presentations

Focus and non-maximality in out-of-the-blue contexts. Talk given at HNM2. July 2023.

Weak necessity modals as homogeneous pluralities of worlds. Talk given at SALT 32. June 2022. Joint work with Paloma Jeretič.

Testing gradient measures of relevance in discourse. Talk given at SuB 26. September 2021. Joint work with Alex Warstadt.

Temporal homogeneity and exceptions to habituals. Talk given at SALT 31. May 2021.

Non-Resolving Responses to Polar Questions. Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 24. September 2019. Joint work with Alex Warstadt. (poster)

Other Presentations

How to ignore counterexamples: Epistemic Sobel sequences and Sufficient Truth. Talk given at NYU Semantics Group. March 2021

Event Structure and Non-culmination in Khoekhoe. Poster presented at MACSIM 8. April 2019.