Research
You can find a list of my publications and presentations below with relevant links to the paper or handout/slides, where available.
Please feel free to email me if there is something you’re looking for that is not listed below!
Dissertation
2020.
Beyond Nominative: A broader view of Tagalog A’-dependencies.
McGill University.
(pdf,
lingbuzz,
eScholarship@McGill)
Publications
- 2023 (in press).
Locality in exceptional Tagalog A′-extraction.
Linguistic Inquiry.
(early access version; lingbuzz)
- 2023.
Observations on Tagalog Genitive Inversion.
Oceanic Linguistics 62, pp. 242-266.
(link)
- 2021.
(with Luis Alonso-Ovalle)
Causes and expectations: On the interpretation of the Tagalog Ability/Involuntary Action form.
Journal of Semantics 38, pp. 441-472.
(open access link)
- 2020.
On the structure of Tagalog non-DP extraction.
In Proceedings of AFLA 26, pp. 124-141.
(link)
- 2019.
Distinguishing nouns and verbs: A Tagalog case study.
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 37, pp. 523-569.
(published version; author’s accepted ms.)
- 2018.
(with Luis Alonso-Ovalle)
Overcoming the unexpected: The Tagalog Ability/Involuntary Action form.
In Proceedings of WCCFL 35, pp. 59-68.
(pdf)
- 2017.
(with Luis Alonso-Ovalle)
Causes and expectations: On the interpretation of the Tagalog Ability/Involuntary Action form.
In Proceedings of SALT 27, pp. 75-94.
(link)
- 2016.
Prosodic indicators of phrase structure in Tagalog transitive sentences.
In Proceedings of AFLA 23, pp. 111-122.
(full proceedings; paper pdf)
- 2016.
Distinguishing nouns and verbs: Against nominalism for Tagalog.
In Proceedings of BLS 42, pp. 313-336.
(proceedings)
- 2015.
Future-oriented Actuality Entailments: A puzzle from Tagalog.
In Proceedings of NELS 45, pp. 25-34.
(pdf)
Presentations
- 2024.
An eye-tracking corpus of adult Tagalog speakers’ natural text reading comprehension.
with Yu-Yin Hsu;
@ 16-ICAL, De La Salle University.
(poster; slides)
- 2024.
Untangling the Tagalog second-position clitic adverbs.
with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine;
@ TripleA 11, Nantes University.
(invited talk)
- 2023.
Interpreting clitic adverb combinations in Tagalog.
with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine;
@ 2023 NTHU Linguistics Forum, National Tsing Hua University.
(invited talk; handout)
- 2023.
Interpreting clitic adverb combinations in Tagalog.
with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine;
@ AFLA 30, Lund University.
(talk)
- 2023.
Tagalog valency morphology and its neutralization.
with Yining Nie;
@ AFLA 30, Lund University.
(talk; slides)
- 2023.
On the semantics of clitic adverbs and their combinations in Tagalog.
with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine;
@ 15th Philippine Linguistics Congress, University of the Philippines Diliman.
(talk)
- 2023.
On Tagalog na ‘already,’ lang ‘only,’ and na lang ‘instead’.
with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine;
@ Workshop on ‘already’ markers, iamitives, & related expressions, Online.
(talk; slides)
- 2021.
Matters of locality in exceptional Tagalog A′-extraction.
@ AFLA 28, McGill University & National University of Singapore (online).
(talk; slides)
- 2019.
On the structure of Tagalog non-DP extraction.
@ AFLA 26, Western University, London, Ontario.
(talk; handout)
- 2018.
Wh-relative clauses in Tagalog.
@ SEALS 28, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
(talk; slides)
- 2018.
Clausal arguments in Tagalog.
with Yining Nie;
@ LSA 2018, Salt Lake City, UT.
(talk; slides)
- 2017.
Anchored Implicatives: Tagalog Ability/Involuntary Action.
with Luis Alonso-Ovalle;
@ SALT 25, University of Maryland.
(poster)
- 2017.
Anchored Implicatives: Tagalog Ability/Involuntary Action.
with Luis Alonso-Ovalle;
@ WCCFL 35, University of Calgary.
(talk)
- 2017.
Overcoming the unexpected: The Tagalog Ability/Involuntary Action verbal inflection.
with Luis Alonso-Ovalle;
@ AFLA 24, University of Washington.
(talk)
- 2016.
Prosodic indicators of phrase structure in Tagalog transitive sentences.
@ AFLA 23, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
(talk; handout)
- 2016.
Distinguishing nouns and verbs: Against the nominalist analysis for Tagalog.
@ SEALS 26, Manila, Philippines.
(talk; handout)
- 2016.
Distinguishing nouns and verbs: Against the nominalist analysis for Tagalog.
@ BLS 42, UC Berkeley.
(talk)
- 2015.
Actuality entailments and an additional meaning component.
@ the 8th Toronto–Ottawa–Montreal semantics workshop (TOM 8), Carleton University, Ottawa.
(talk; handout)
- 2014.
Future-oriented Actuality Entailments: A puzzle from Tagalog.
@ NELS 45, MIT.
(poster)