I'm a PhD candidate at Yale Linguistics. I'm interested in typological diversity and what it reveals about our capacity for language; what our basic communicative needs have in common across languages, and what any grammatical toolkit must be equipped with in order to meet them. I primarily focus on the confluence of linguistic form and meaning. For my dissertation, I have conducted fieldwork on Khasi, Pnar (Austroasiatic), and Mizo (Tibeto-Burman), funded by the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
