I’m a linguist specializing in formal and computational semantics. I did my PhD at NYU, and was previously a professor at Rutgers University.
As a semanticist, my goal is to understand the relationship between linguistic form and meaning. I use tools from mathematics, logic, and computer science to study patterns or formal motifs that are ubiquitous but latent in models of how linguistic structure is compositionally associated with meaning. Treating these patterns as first-class objects, worthy of study in their own right, serves as a powerful engine for new theories and new predictions.
Empirically, my work is driven by quantification, scope, indefiniteness, anaphora, and ellipsis, interacting domains (and, historically, challenging ones to properly theorize) in which the relationship between form and meaning is especially rich, and revealing.