Profile
I am interested in morphology, syntax, semantics, and linguistic typology. My past and ongoing research work includes the following topics:
- voice marking & valency alterations, particularly middle voice and voice marker stacking
- psych predicates, particularly object-experiencer verbs, the psych alternation, and complex psych predicates
- differential argument marking, particularly differential object flagging in Romance
- light verb constructions, particularly LVCs with experiencer arguments and LVCs as diathesis constructions
I work with typological samples, and with detailed data from several languages and families: Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan (Romance), German, Danish (Germanic), Turkish (Turkic), Gĩkũyũ (Bantu), and Garo (Tibeto-Burman). At a smaller scale, I have also been exploring data from Setswana and Kinyarwanda (Bantu), Kannada (Dravidian), Italian, French, Romanian (Romance), English (Germanic), and Pontic (Greek).
My PhD project (finished in 2025) was entitled Alternations of Object-Experiencer Predicates. My advisors were Jens Fleischhauer and Kilu von Prince.
A list of my publications and presentations is available here
Projects
I currently work on two primary research projects and a few collaborative side projects.
Primary research projects
- Typology of voice marker stacking – since 2025 – see project page
- Alternations of psych predicates – PhD project (2020-2025) and ongoing related work (since 2025) – see project page
Side projects
- Passive constructions in Garo (Tibeto-Burman < Sino-Tibetan) – Collaboration with Jesi Daiji Marak (HHU Düsseldorf), since 2026