I am a linguist and interpreter/translator.  I have also taught and continue to teach from time-to-time at a variety of institutions including the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Southeast Community College.

I received my Ph.D. in Spanish with concentrations in Romance Linguistics and Medieval Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

My research focus is formal diachronic Romance syntax, though I have most recently been spending time working on syntactic phenomena in Polynesian languages, primarily Hawaiian but in comparison with Māori and Niuean.

My dissertation is titled Cycles of Agreement: Romance Clitics in Diachrony.

My Positionality Statement for my research on Hawaiian language

Current projects:

i) The role of null subjects in the development of se constructions in Romance and Slavic (in collaboration with Jonathan E. MacDonald).

ii) From subject marker to personal article: Hawaiian ʻo and its Polynesian cognates.

iii) Patterns of preverbal subject displacement in Hawaiian: Is sentential negation a Neg head or V?

iv) Diachronic distributional patterns of Spanish lo neutro.

v) Patterns of clitic climbing and the grammaticalization of clitics in Romance

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