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I am a linguist specializing in historical-comparative Indo-European linguistics and theoretical linguistics, in particular morphosyntactic change, the reconstruction of nominal and verbal morphology, and the diachrony of argument structure, valency, and voice. I mostly work on older Indo-European languages like Ancient Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, Avestan, Hittite, and Latin, and I enjoy working on topics that require a combination of methods from comparative philology, historical linguistics, and syntactic and morphological theory. I am especially interested in mismatches between syntax and morphological exponence (“wrong” or exceptional forms), their diachrony, and their implications for syntactic and morphological theory, as well as the nature and diachronic development of morphosyntactic categorization. Most recently I have been working on the Ancient Greek and Indo-Iranian verbal systems from a diachronic and theoretical perspective.

You can find most of my output (handouts, papers, etc.) on this website or on my academia.edu page, but please e-mail me if you’re having trouble finding a paper.