interests | papers | talks

I'm interested in semantics and syntax but these days I oscillate between the following topics:

• Numeral Expressions (particularly ordinals)
• Number (semantics, syntax, morphology, typology)
• Collectivity, distributivity, cumulativity
• Sort-Shifting, if and how it's marked, where, and in what languages
• Free choice items like n'importe, quelconque, and tout
• The syntax and semantics of double objects and scope freezing
• 'Average NPs' (the average American has 2.3 kids)
• Formal tools in linguistic research: multidimensionality, alternative semantics, type-shifting strategies, etc.

Languages?

• French (familiarity with many many dialects)
• Arabic (classical and lebanese flavoured)
• Nishnaabemwin (aka. odawa), an Algonquian language I got hooked on after taking a field methods course at the University of Toronto
• Kono, a language of Sierra Leone.