I'm currently a Humboldt Research Fellow in the Lehrstuhl für Historische und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. I received my PhD from the interdepartmental Program in Indo-European Studies (PIES) at the University of California, Los Angeles in the summer of 2017. Starting in January 2023 I will return to UCLA as an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and in PIES.
I specialize in Indo-European comparative-historical linguistics and in the philology and linguistics of the Anatolian languages, with particular focus on Hittite. My research is concerned broadly with the synchronic and historical grammar of the Anatolian languages, and with how these inform our understanding of the rest of the Indo-European language family. Some aspects of my recent research are outlined below; downloadable versions of my publications and conference handouts/posters/slides are available here. Feel free to contact me with any questions here. |
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[ News ]
- 12/6/2022: My article on the prosodic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European *–mon-stems has finally appeared online. You can download it (open access!) here.
- 11/7/2022: I will be in Los Angeles next weekend for the 33rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. I'll be talking about the prosody of the so-called "endingless locative" in Indo-European. You can check out the slides here.
- 8/21/2022: I have a new paper coming out in the Proceedings of the 32nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, which deals with (i) the prosodic properties of primary *–r/n-stems in Proto-Indo-European and its daughter languages and (ii) plural formation in neuter nouns generally. The manuscript is available here.
- 6/24/2022: Today I'm in Cambridge (MA, USA), where I'll be talking about the Hittite words for 'ash' and 'hearth' and what they tell us about Indo-European morphophonology — in particular, of non-primary derivatives. You can find the slides here.
- 5/4/2022: Well, it's now official — in January 2023 I will return to UCLA as an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and in the Program in Indo-European Studies. I couldn't be more excited to head back to LA and (re)join the excellent faculties of NELC and of PIES.