

The Prosody of Yes/No Questions in English.Ī Case of OCP Effects in Intonational Phonology. (with Laura McPherson) Syntax-Prosody Mapping and the Tongan DP. (with Craig Sailor) Changes to Previously Spelled-Out Material. (with Craig Sailor) Obligatory Object Gaps in Infinitival Clauses. Minimalist Constraints on Interfaces with Syntax. Presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody. (with Craig Sailor) The Prosody of Emphatic Reflexives in English. Presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. (with Craig Sailor) The Emerging Middle Class. Presented at the workshop on Morphological Voice and its Grammatical Interfaces. The Voices in our Heads: The VoiceP in English. Presented at the workshop on Peculiar Binding Configurations. Syntactic Configurations of Emphatic Reflexives. Presented at the 18th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. Tongan Relative Clauses at the Syntax-Prosody Interface. Presented at the 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of Southern California, May 2011.Įxternal Argument Focus and Clausal Reflexivity. Presented at the Parallel Domains: A workshop in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud. Explorations of Voice, Identity and the Self. Presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 2. Default Sentential Stress and Non-Exceptional Reflexives. Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the LSA. The Prosody of Binding: Reflexive Voice and Default Sentential Stress. (with Craig Sailor) Universality and Subject-Oriented Reflexivity. Obligatory Object Gaps in Infinitival Clauses.

The Syntax of Phrasal Stress “Exceptions”. Presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Reflexes of Reflexivity: Locality and the Interfaces. University of California, Santa Cruz S-Circle. University of Southern California, Syntax Plus. Subject-Orientation and Reflexivity: Crosslinguistic Investigations at the Interfaces. External Argument Focus and Reflexive Syntax. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 46). Travel Scholarship, Cornell University Dept. Summer Institute Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America President’s Fellowship, UCLA Summer Institute Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America President’s Fellowship, UCLA in Linguistics (defense: Spring 2014) Dissertation: Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English Sun-Ah Jun and Dominique Sportiche (co-chairs), Elsi Kaiser, Hilda Koopman, and Timothy Stowell Master’s Thesis: Not Just Emphatic Reflexives Themselves: Their Syntax, Semantics and Prosody Anoop Mahajan (chair), Sun-Ah Jun, Jessica Rett Cornell University, Ithaca, NY B.A., Linguistics, Magna Cum Laude Concentrations in Cognitive Studies and East Asian Studies Honors Thesis: Nominative-Genitive Conversion in Japanese: a Consequence of the Syntax John Whitman (advisor), John Bowers, Wayne Harbertĭissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA Research Mentorship, UCLA University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. Re-Exploring the Tonal Inventory of English.DP-internal Syntax of Austronesian languages.The Syntax and Prosody of Emphatic Reflexives.Unification of All Grammatical Voices Under VoiceP.Argument Structure and the Syntax-Semantics Interface.Empirical Basis of a New Binding Theory.More specifically, I am interested in the syntax of binding and reflexivity, intonational phonology, the syntax-prosody interface, verbal structure, case, and Japanese linguistics. I have strong research background in theoretical linguistics, namely syntax and prosody, and also in using experimental tests and empirical data. University of California, Los Angeles 3125 Campbell Hall, Box 951543 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 A HN –C URRICULUM V ITAE – last updated: MaT (424) 442-9766 B m
