My main interests center around Syntax-Semantics Interface and Computational Linguistics, including (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Computational properties of language and linguistic theory
- Agreement
- Copular and existential sentences
- The syntax and semantics of (complex) demonstratives
- Anaphora
- Portuguese Linguistics
Papers/ Talks
Exhaustivity in Anaphoric Simple Demonstratives in Brazilian Portuguese. Workshop on Anaphoric uses of demonstrative expressions at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Siegen, 28 February - 2 March, 2007. (program, handout)
A Minimalist View on Differential Object Marking for Specificity. 36th Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistics Society, Oakland University, October, 2006. (handout)
Predicate Inversion, Person Asymmetries and Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese. 34th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of the Southwest, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, October, 2005. (handout)
Predicate Inversion and Agreement Alternations in Brazilian Portuguese. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference 2005, Monash University, Melbourne, September, 2005. (handout)
Theses
Post Verbal Subjects and Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese. Masters Thesis, UCLA, 2006. (paper)
Differential Object Behaviour. Undergraduate Honours Thesis, University of Queensland, 2003. (paper, UQ Seminar handout, data handout)
Websites
Formal Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches to Binding Theory - Website for project lead Philippe Schlenker and funded by the NSF (2007).
Introduction to LFG and HSPG - Summary written in my Honours year at the University of Queensland (2003).
Predicate Inversion and Agreement Alternations in Brazilian Portuguese. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference 2005, Monash University, Melbourne, September, 2005. (handout)
Theses
Post Verbal Subjects and Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese. Masters Thesis, UCLA, 2006. (paper)
Differential Object Behaviour. Undergraduate Honours Thesis, University of Queensland, 2003. (paper, UQ Seminar handout, data handout)
Websites
Formal Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches to Binding Theory - Website for project lead Philippe Schlenker and funded by the NSF (2007).
Introduction to LFG and HSPG - Summary written in my Honours year at the University of Queensland (2003).
UCLA Linguistics Department