I am a linguist and philosopher, I specialize in semantics, the syntax-semantics interface and philosophy of language.
I have received my Ph.D in linguistics at UMass, Amherst in 2019. My dissertation ‘Phrasal and Clausal Exceptive-Additive Constructions Crosslinguistically’ is available here.
My work focuses on the syntax and semantics of quantificational expressions in natural languages, specifically exploring how languages restrict the domains of quantifiers. A significant portion of my research has been dedicated to studying exceptive and exceptive-additive constructions.
In my recent project on tense semantics, I examine whether cessation inferences are a result of post-semantic pragmatic reasoning or whether, like scalar implicatures, they involve a syntactically present operator Exh. To investigate this, I focus on languages that lack the present tense (optional past languages) and study cessation inference patterns in embedded clauses.
Another area of my research is in the philosophy of language. I have explored how belief reports are structured and how various referential terms—such as proper names and tenses—are interpreted within these contexts.
In addition to theoretical work, I am involved in linguistic fieldwork, particularly with Tundra Nenets, a language spoken in the Far North of Russia. My fieldwork takes place in Naryan-Mar, a town in the Nenets Autonomous District, where I grew up. This research has focused on various aspects of Nenets, including exceptive constructions, attitude reports, tense, modal adverbs, and conjunctions.