Faculty

- Title
- Associate Professor
- Graduate Program Director
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Linguistics Department
- Affiliations Merrill College, Cowell College
- Phone 831-459-2346
- Fax 831-459-3334
- Website
- Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 236
- Office Hours FALL 2020: On Sabbatical
- Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Indigenous Peoples, Linguistics
Research Interests
syntax, semantics, pragmatics, Northern Paiute, Zapotec, Persian
Selected Publications
- The imperfective semantics of durative gemination in Northern Paiute. International Journal of American Linguistics, 2017, 83(3): 561–601
- The temporal interpretation of clause chaining in Northern Paiute. Language, 2016, 92(4): 850–889.
- Embedding the antecedent in gapping: Low coordination and the role of parallelism. Linguistic Inquiry, 2016, 47(2): 381–390.
- Contrast and the structure of discourse. Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014, 7(4): 1–57.