​Research interests and ongoing research

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My research interests include syntactic variation, heritage language syntax, agreement, Italo-Romance and Indo-Aryan dialectology, the syntax-phonology interface, language change in contact, and language contact in migration contexts. Below is a list of my current research activities. 

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Many of these manuscripts are ongoing/submitted/in talk form.

If interested, just drop me a line and I'll send them to you

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Verb movement and DOM

 

Verb movement (with Diego Pescarini)

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Honorifics (with Iarina Albu, Gabriel Carlin-Coleman, Idan Caspi, and Laia Colina Fortuny)

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Indo-Aryan microvariation and ergativity (with Pritha Chandra)

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Language change in contact and in diachrony (with Mike Putnam and Silvia Terenghi)

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Null subjects in heritage languages (with Alberto Frasson)

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Monotonicity (with Silvia Terenghi)

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Heritage Language data elicitation (with Laia Colina-Fortuny and MCarme Parafita Couto)

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Featural contact between Chinese dialects (with Zetao Xu)

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Heritage Chinese resumptive pronouns (with Zetao Xu)

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LLMs and language evolution (with Marc van Oostendorp)

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3rd factor in language design: evidence from heritage languages (with Elena Soare)

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Sociolinguistic constraints to language change in contact (with Suzanne Aalberse and Zetao Xu)

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Sarnámi syntax (with Joeri Vinke)

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Dynamic Syntax (with Liliana Sánchez and Mike Putnam)

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