2012 - Sluiced Fragment Answers: another puzzle involving islands and ellipsis
Highlights some new evidence showing that at least some fragment answers are not island sensitive. In Snippets, issue 25, 20122010 - RNR Requires both Ellipsis and Multidomination
An analysis of RNR constructions in English in collaboration with Luis Vicente (Potsdam), where the position defended is that either Multidomination or Ellipsis derives RNR constructions. Published in the proceedings of the 34th Penn Linguistics Colloquium.2010 - Sluicing and the Brazilian Portuguese Null Copula
An analysis of specificational wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese where the copula verb may optionally be null. In Rutgers Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 3.2012 - 'What'-questions as a window into N-meanings
Poster presented at MACSIM, February 18th, 2012 held at UMD. The type/token ambiguity associated with noun denotations is shown to be sensitive to the noun's level of specificity on taxonomic hierarchies. poster pdf.2011 - Something else about exceptives
A compositional semantics for the exceptive modifiers 'else' and 'other' is provided. 'else' is taken to be a determiner modifier whereas 'other' is analyzed as an NP modifier. Handout presented at RULing VI, an annual conference showcasing graduate student research in the Rutgers linguistics department.2010 - Right Node Raising Requires both Multidominance and Ellipsis
(with Luis Vicente)Diagnostics for multidominance structures are proposed in an effort to tease apart whether ellipsis or multidomination derives RNR. The conclusion is that the two processes can be teased apart, showing that there are at least two sources for RNR strings in English. Handout from a presentation at the 34th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 34) on March 20th, 2010.2009 - Sluicing and the Distribution of the Brazilian Portuguese Null Copula
Handout from a presentation at Console XVIII (the eighteenth Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe) on December 19th, 2009. An analysis of the interaction between Sluicing and specificational clauses in Brazilian Portuguese.2009 - Backwards ... Ellipsis?
(with Luis Vicente)A comparison of the properties of "TP-sized" RNR, "VP-sized" RNR, and "DP-sized" RNR in English. The position adopted is that DP-sized RNR is best analyzed as being derived via multidomination whereas VP-sized RNR is derived via backwards ellipsis. Presented November 12, 2009 at ZAS in Berlin2012 - Arguments against Island Repair: Evidence from Contrastive TP Ellipsis
An account of island sensitivity in contrast TP-ellipsis, TP-ellipsis where the remnant and correlate are contrastively focused. The claim is that contrast TP ellipsis provides the relevant control in addressing `the repair question' since it can be independently shown that alternative non-island containing parses are unavailable for the elided TP in contrastive TPE contexts.2011 - A Compositional Semantics for the Exceptive Modifier 'else' in English
This is a draft of my second qualifying paper. I propose a compositional analysis for the exceptive modifier 'else' in English.2010 - On Linearizing Multidominance Structures and the Proper Analysis of Right Node Raising Constructions
This is a draft of my first qualifying paper. It is an exploration of the conflict regarding the proper analysis of Right Node Raising constructions in the literature. There is also discussion of how structures with multidomination should be linearized.