I have recently filed my dissertation at Yale Linguistics and will be conferred my Ph.D. in September 2026. I am interested in typological diversity and what it can tell us about our capacity for language: what our basic communicative needs have in common across languages, and what any grammatical toolkit needs to meet them. I believe that a comprehensive theory of language must draw on evidence from under-documented languages, and my dissertation reflects precisely this approach. In Fall 2024, I was on a dissertation fellowship from the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, conducting fieldwork on two indigenous languages of North-East India: Khasi (Austroasiatic) and Mizo (Tibeto-Burman). My primary focus is on the confluence of linguistic form and meaning.
