Some of my current projects are listed immediately below, along with brief descriptions.

Downloadable versions of my published papers and conference presentations (handouts, posters, etc.) are available further below; you can also find these on my Academia page.

[ Current Projects ]

Anatolian & Indo-European word prosody

• ​​​How was word stress determined — and how did it interact with ablaut — in Proto-Indo-European and its daughter languages? This project aims to address these question, with special attention to the Anatolian evidence and its historical implications.
• My most recent paper on this topic was presented at the 33rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference in November 2022. I argued that the "endingless locative" was not prosodically exceptional with respect to its stress patterns as previously assumed, but rather was stressed just like a noun's other oblique cases. You can find the slides here.
• The broad question raised above is also at the center of what is presently my main project, a monograph (provisionally) entitled: Hittite and Indo-European Word Prosody.​

On the diachrony of word stress in the Cupan languages

• Despite their common ancestor, the Cupan languages (Luiseño, Cahuilla, Cupeño) all differ from one another in their principles of stress assignment. I am interested in how these differences arose –– how have the diverse word-prosodic systems of these languages developed out of the Proto-Uto-Aztecan fixed stress system?
• At SSILA 2018, I discussed the divergent developments of Cahuilla, which has innovated fixed root-initial stress, and Cupeño, which has lexical accent and a general preference for word-initial stress. The handout is available for download here.

Comparative and historical grammar of Anatolian

• It is uncontroversial that the Anatolian languages provide crucial evidence for the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European — in particular, because of the branch's unique position in the IE family as a sister of the ancestor of the non-Anatolian languages. More than a hundred years after Hrozný's decipherment of Hittite, however, the Anatolian languages await a systematic treatment from a comparative-historical perspective. 
• One of my long-term projects is to produce such a treatment, broadly on the model of Michael Weiss's monumental Outline of the Comparative and Historical Grammar of Latin. The aim of this project is to produce a tool that is useful to specialists, synthesizing the results of recent synchronic and diachronic research on the Anatolian languages, but that is also accessible to non-specialists, introducing them to the historical study of Anatolian and Indo-European languages.

[ Dissertation ]

2017  ●  Lexical Accent in Cupeño, Hittite, and Indo-European. PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.  ➤  download

[ Papers ]

to appear ● "The Anatolian reflexes of Indo-European τομή-, φυγή-, τόμος-, and τομός-type nominals and their historical implications. Indogermanische Forschungen​.  ➤  download (ms.)

2023 ● "The Unexceptional Stress of the "Endingless Locative" in Indo-European" in David M. Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison, and Anthony D. Yates (eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference​. Hamburge: Buske  ➤  download

2022 ● "Emergent Mobility in Indo-European *-r/n-stems and Its Implications for the Reconstruction of the Neuter Plural" in David M. Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison, and, and Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 271-295. Hamburg: Buske ➤ download

2022 ● "A new prosodic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European *–mon-stems" Indo-European Linguistics ​10. ➤  download (ms.; final version here, open access)

2020 ● "Voice Reversals and Syntactic Structure: Evidence from Hittite" (with John Gluckman). Glossa 5, 120/1–39. ​ ​➤  download

2020 ● "The Phonology and Morphology of Anatolian *–mon-stems" in David M. Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison, and, and Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Hamburg: Buske ➤ download 

2020 ● "Lexical accents are underlying foot edges: Evidence from Vedic Sanskrit" in Mariam Asatryan, Yixiao Song, and Ayana Whitmal (eds.),  Proceedings of the 50th Annual North East Linguistic Society, Vol. 3, 255–268. ​ ➤  download (ms.)

2019 ● "Suffixal *o-vocalism without "Amphikinesis": On Proto-Indo-European *–oi-stems and Ablaut as a Diagnostic for Word Stress" in David M. Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison, and, and Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 199–221. Bremen: Hempen.  ➤  download

2019 ● "The Phonology, Phonetics, and Diachrony of Sturtevant's Law." Indo-European Linguistics 7​, 214–307.  ➤ download 

2018 ● "The Phonology of Anatolian Reduplication: Synchrony and Diachrony" (with Sam Zukoff). Indo-European Linguistics 6, 201–270.  ➤ download

​2018 ● “Proto-Indo-European Morphology” (with Jesse Lundquist) in Jared Klein and Brian Joseph (eds.), Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, 2079–2195. De Gruyter: Berlin / New York.  ➤  download

​2017 ● "Against Root Faithfulness in Cupeño Stress." In Karen Jesney, Charlie O’Hara, Caitlin Smith (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology, 1–11. ​ ➤  download

2016 ● "Hittite Stressed Vowel Lengthening and the Phonology-Orthography Interface" in David M. Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison, and Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Bremen: Hempen. ➤ download / extended version

2016 ● "Stress Assignment in Hittite and Proto-Indo-European" in Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 1. 25/1–15. ➤ download

2016 ● "Left But Not Leftmost? Interactions between Epenthesis and Ictus Assignment in Anatolian" in Stephanie W. Jamison, H. Craig Melchert, and Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 161–178. Bremen: Hempen. ➤ download

2015 ● "Anatolian Default Accentuation and its Diachronic Consequences." Indo-European Linguistics 3. 145–187. ➤ download

2014 ● "On the PIE ‘Quasi-Serial Verb’ Construction: Origin and Development" in Stephanie W. Jamison, H. Craig Melchert, and Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 237–255. Bremen: Hempen. ➤ download

[ Reviews ]

2020 ● Review: S. Patri, Phonologie hittite (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2019). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. ➤ download

[ Conference presentations & invited lectures ]

July 1, 2024 ● "Vedic śūṣá– `powerful' and the diachrony of vowel deletion in Indo-European. 43rd Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference  ​➤  slides

March 22, 2024 ● "Toward a prosodic account of Hittite 'hyperbaton'" (with Craig Melchert). 234th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society. ​➤  handout

​December 4, 2023 ● "Cyclicity as a Proto-Indo-European phenomenon." Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, Edinburgh. ➤  slides

October 19, 2023 ● "The principles of Anatolian poetry." Invited lecture, University of Richmond. ➤  slides

September 5, 2023 ● "The diachrony of 'voice reversal' in Hittite." 12th International Congress of Hittitology, Istanbul.  ​​➤ slides

June 25, 2023 ● "On the Indo-European τομἠ- and φυγή-tpes and their Anatolian reflexes. 42nd Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference, Carrboro, NC.  ​​➤  slides

March 11, 2023 ● "How to talk about dragon-slaying in Hittite." 233rd Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Los Angeles. ​​➤​ slides

December 1, 2022 ● "Cyclicity in Indo-European non-primary derivation." Distinguished Professors' Lecture, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań ​➤​  slides

November 13, 2022 ● "The unexceptional word-prosody of the "endingless locative" in Indo-European. 33rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA. ➤ slides​ / data (.tsv)

June 24, 2022 ● ḫašš- ‘ash’, ḫašša- ‘hearth’, and the properties of non-primary derivatives in Hittite and Indo-European. 41st Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cambridge, MA. ➤​  slides

February 22, 2022 ● Motion verbs in Anatolian and Indo-European. Invited lecture, University of California, Los Angeles. ➤ slides / data (.tsv) / data (.pdf)

December 2, 2021 ● Hittite and the Indo-European Accent: A conversation with Alwin Kloekhorst. Invited lecture, University of Oxford. ➤​ slides

November 5, 2021 ●  The origin of stress mobility in Indo-European *–r/n-stems. 32nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA. ➤​ slides

October 27, 2021 ● The morphophonology of Indo-European non-primary derivatives. Invited lecture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. ​➤ slides

 July 15, 2021 ●  Indo-European word prosody and the impact of Anatolian. Oxford Workshop on Indo-European Accentuation, Oxford, UK. ➤ handout

​ June 18, 2021 ● The synchronic and diachronic prosody of Hittite –r/n-stems. 40th Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference, Ithaca, NY/Blacksburg, VA.  ➤ slides

 May 17, 2021 ● Lexical accents as foot edges: Evidence from Vedic Sanskrit and Modern Greek. Universität Leipzig Phonology Reading Group, Leipzig.  ➤ slides

February 14, 2021 ● `cut', `kill' and the restructuring of root ablaut in Anatolian radical –mi-verbs. Invited lecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.  ➤ slides

February 14, 2020 ● What is a lexical accent? Indo-European evidence for a metrical representation. Berkeley Linguistics Colloqium, Berkeley, CA. ​➤ slides

December 10, 2019 ● Indo-European "secondary mobility" and its implications for accentedness. Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, Edinburgh. ➤ slides

November 9, 2019 ● ​The word-prosody of Proto-Indo-European *–mon-stems and their implications for (internal) derivation. 31st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles. ➤ slides

October 26, 2019 ● ​Lexical accents are underlying foot edges: New evidence from ancient Indo-European languages. 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Cambridge, MA. ➤ slides

June 22, 2019  ● Hittite paḫḫweni, Greek πυρί, and their implications for Indo-European ablaut. 38th Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference, Philadelphia. ➤ handout

May 28, 2019   ● (Some) Indo-European ablaut is phonological: Post-tonic */o/-deletion in neuter “*men-stems” and beyond. Invited lecture, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.  ➤  slides

May 25, 2019   ● ​​​​“Indo-European ablaut and the trap of the leftmost column." 27th Annual Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK.  ➤  poster

January 5, 2019   ● ​​​​“Unaccusative active verbs do not lack a Voice layer: The morphosyntax of Hittite
‘voice reversal’.” 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, NY.  ➤  slides

November 9, 2018   ● ​​“PIE *–oi-stems Were Not ’Amphikinetic’: Decoupling Stress Mobility and *o-Vocalism” 30th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA. ➤ handout

October 6, 2018   ● ​ “A Diachronic Counter-example to the Subset Principle: The Case of Anatolian Reduplication” (with Sam Zukoff). 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology, San Diego, CA. ➤ poster / handout

July 26, 2018   ● ​ “Voice Mismatch in Hittite: Locality and Emergent Alignment.” 3rd Munich-UCLA Historical Linguistics Colloquium, Munich. ➤ handout

June 16, 2018   ● "Some basics of Indo-European phonology." 37th Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference, Ann Arbor, MI. ➤  handout

March 30, 2018   ● "Anatolian and the reconstruction of Indo-European word prosody." Invited lecture. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.  ➤  slides

 January 7, 2018   ● "On the diachrony of word stress in the Cupan languages." 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Salt Lake City, UT. ➤  handout

 January 6, 2018   ● "Substantive Bias and Word-Final Voiced Obstruents: An Artificial Grammar Learning Study” (with Eleanor Glewwe et al.). 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.  ➤  handout

November 4, 2017   ●  "Hittite 'fire' and "proterokinesis" as Epiphenomenon." 29th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA.  ➤  handout

February 4, 2017   ●   "On Reduplication and Stress in Cupeño." 43rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA.  ➤  slides

January 7, 2017   ●   "The Phonology of Cupeño X-fixing Reduplication." 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Austin, TX.   ➤  slides

January 6, 2017   ●   "The Unexceptionality of Cupeño Stress: Toward a Restrictive Typology of Lexical Accent." 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin, TX.   ➤  poster

 November 12, 2016   ●   "Variation and Change in Anatolian Reduplication" (with Sam Zukoff). 28th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA.   ➤   handout

October 23, 2016   ●   "Against Root Faithfulness in Cupeño Stress." 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology, Los Angeles, CA.   ➤   poster

June 6, 2016   ●   "The Phonology of Anatolian Reduplication" (with Sam Zukoff). 35th Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference, Athens, GA.   ➤   handout

 January 9, 2016   ●   "On the Evolution of Lexical Accent in Cupeño." 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Washington, D.C.   ➤   handout

January 8, 2016   ●   "(Reconstructing) Stress Assignment in Hittite and Proto-Indo-European." 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, D.C.     ➤   handout

October 24, 2015   ●   "On the Relationship between Stress and Vowel Quantity in Hittite.” 27th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA.    ➤   handout 

March 13, 2015   ●   "On Hittite Verbal Prosody: Synchronic Evidence for (Non-)Default Accentuation.” 225th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, New Orleans, LA.   ➤   handout 

January 11, 2015   ●   "Motivating Osthoff’s Law in Latin: Diachronic Constraint Stability and Phonological Innovation." 146th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, New Orleans, LA.   ➤   handout 

December 9, 2014   ●   "Issues in the Reconstruction of Anatolian and Indo-European Prosody.” Invited lecture, University of Vienna, Vienna.   ➤   handout 

December 6, 2014   ●   "Anatolian ‘Indeterminate’ Relative Clauses Revisited: Syntax, Semantics and the ‘Held–Garrett Rule’." 41st Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Vienna.     ➤   handout 

October 24, 2014   ●   "Accent ‘Retraction’ in Hittite: Toward a Unified Phonological Account." 26th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA.   ➤   handout 

March 25, 2014   ●   "On Proto-Anatolian Verbal Ablaut: The Hittite ašanzi-Type Reexamined.” Kyoto-UCLA Workshop on Indo-European, Kyoto, Japan.   ➤   handout 

March 14, 2014   ●   “The Anatolian āmreḍita: Distribution, Function, and Prehistory.” 224th Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Phoenix, AZ.   ➤   handout 

January 3, 2014 ● "Homeric ΒΗ Δ’ ΙΕΝΑΙ: A Serial Verb Construction in Greek?" 145th Annual Meetings of the American Philological Association, Chicago, IL. ➤ handout

October 25, 2013   ●   "On the PIE ‘Quasi-Serial Verb’ Construction: Origin and Development." 25th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA.   ➤   handout

October 25, 2013   ●   "Toward the Reconstruction of an Indo-European Poetic Area: The Evidence of Hittite Meter." Invited lecture, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.    ➤   handout