Research
I study how various hallmarks of natural language meaning, including incremental update, relative gradability, and metalinguistic assertions, can be modeled with theories of logic and computation.
- Papers
- In prep.: Correcting context updates. For: Logic & Engineering in Natural Language Semantics 21, revised selected papers, ed. by Daisuke Bekki. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
- In prep.: Modifying degrees and their proportions. For: Proceedings of the 61st Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.
- Relative quantification and equative scope-taking. 2024. In: Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, ed. by Fausto Carcassi, Tamar Johnson, Søren Brinck Knudstorp, Sabrina Domínguez Parrado, Pablo Rivas Robledo, & Giorgio Sbardolini. 203–210. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language & Computation. Online: platform.openjournals.nl/PAC/article/view/21844.
- Restricting the scope of a relative measure. 2024. In: University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics, ed. by Adeline Braverman. 1–14. Seattle, WA: UWWPL. Online: osf.io/6qfcu.
- Talks
- ‘Scalarity and the contribution of correction.’ Jan. 2026. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
- ‘Correcting context updates.’ Nov. 2025. Logic & Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 21. Nagoya.
- ‘Modifying degrees and their proportions.’ May 2025. 61st Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS). University of Chicago. Slides: PDF.
- ‘Modifying degrees and their proportions.’ Jan. 2025. Syntax & Semantics Circle. UC Santa Cruz.
- ‘Relative quantification and equative scope-taking.’ Dec. 2024. 24th Amsterdam Colloquium (AC). UvA. Slides: PDF.
See CV for earlier talks and details. ORCID: 0009-0003-3129-5702.