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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 here 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

  • 2023. (with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) Interpreting clitic adverb combinations in Tagalog. Presented at 2023 NTHU Linguistics Forum, National Tsing Hua University, Nov 11. (invited talk; handout)

  • 2023. (with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) Interpreting clitic adverb combinations in Tagalog. Presented at AFLA 30, Lund University, Oct 20–22. (talk)

  • 2023. (with Yining Nie) Tagalog valency morphology and its neutralization. Presented at AFLA 30, Lund University, Oct 20–22. (talk; slides)

  • 2023. (with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) On the semantics of clitic adverbs and their combinations in Tagalog. Presented at 15th Philippine Linguistics Congress, University of the Philippines Diliman, Aug 23–25. (talk)

  • 2023. (with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) On Tagalog na ‘already,’ lang ‘only,’ and na lang ‘instead’. Presented at Workshop on ‘already’ markers, iamitives, & related expressions, Online, Jul 14. (talk; slides)

  • 2021. Matters of locality in exceptional Tagalog A′-extraction. Presented at AFLA 28, McGill University & National University of Singapore (online), May 25–28. (talk; slides)

  • 2019. On the structure of Tagalog non-DP extraction. Presented at AFLA 26, Western University, London, Ontario, May 24–26. (talk; handout)

  • 2018. Wh-relative clauses in Tagalog. Presented at SEALS 28, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 17–19. (talk; slides)

  • 2018. (with Yining Nie) Clausal arguments in Tagalog. Presented at LSA 2018, Salt Lake City, UT, Jan 4–7. (talk; slides)

  • 2017. (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle) Anchored Implicatives: Tagalog Ability/Involuntary Action. Presented at SALT 25, University of Maryland, May 11–14. (poster)

  • 2017. (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle) Anchored Implicatives: Tagalog Ability/Involuntary Action. Presented at WCCFL 35, University of Calgary, Apr 28–30. (talk)

  • 2017. (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle) Overcoming the unexpected: The Tagalog Ability/Involuntary Action verbal inflection. Presented at AFLA 24, University of Washington, Apr 7–9. (talk)

  • 2016. Prosodic indicators of phrase structure in Tagalog transitive sentences. Presented at AFLA 23, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Jun 10–12. (talk; handout)

  • 2016. Distinguishing nouns and verbs: Against the nominalist analysis for Tagalog. Presented at SEALS 26, Manila, Philippines, May 26–28. (talk; handout)

  • 2016. Distinguishing nouns and verbs: Against the nominalist analysis for Tagalog. Presented at BLS 42, UC Berkeley, Feb 5–7. (talk)

  • 2015. Actuality entailments and an additional meaning component. Presented at the 8th Toronto–Ottawa–Montreal semantics workshop (TOM 8), Carleton University, Ottawa, Apr 11. (talk; handout)

  • 2014. Future-oriented Actuality Entailments: A puzzle from Tagalog. Presented at NELS 45, MIT, Oct 31–Nov 2. (poster)