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I'm a post-doc in the research unit Cyclic Optimization (Cyclop) at Leipzig University. My research interests include:

Phonological Typology
Papuan Languages
Nominal Syntax
Phonology-Morphology Interface
Pitch Accent

Publications

To appear. A Prosodic-Cyclic Theory of Circumfix Linearization: Evidence from Abstract Nominalizations in Indonesian. In Linguistic Variation (PDF)

To appear. Igbo phrasal overwriting as tonal circumclitics. In Linguistische Arbeits Berichte (PDF)

To appear. Morpheme Structure Constraints. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Second Edition (PDF)

2023. Parallel interaction between infixation and root domain constraints. NELS 53: Proceedings of the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.

2022. Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology (with Daniel Gleim, Gereon Müller and Mariia Privizentseva). Natural language & Linguistic theory 41. (Open Access)

2022. Determiner Removal in Balinese non-pivot agents (with Imke Driemel). Syntax 25(2). (Open Access, lingbuzz)

2022. Velar lateral allophony in Mee (Ekari) (with Peter Staroverov). Journal of the IPA 52(2). (PDF)

2021. Non-local phonology by morphological movement (with Daniel Gleim, Gereon Müller, and Mariia Privizentseva). NELS 51: Proceedings of the Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. (prefinal).

2020. Exceptionality in Assamese vowel harmony: A phonological account (with Eva Zimmermann). Glossa 5(1). (Glossa)

2019. Posterior affricate in Mee and consonant-vowel place interactions (with Peter Staroverov). Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology 6. (PDF)

2019. Neutralization in Balinese subjects by Structure Removal (with Imke Driemel). Linguistische Arbeits Berichte 94 . (LAB)

2019. No possessor inversion in German PPs (with Marie-Luise Popp). Glossa 4(1). (Glossa, lingbuzz)

2019. The perfect in Mee: New evidence for a result state approach (with Christine Marquardt and Marie-Luise Schwarzer). Proceedings of TripleA5. (PDF)

Talks and Posters

2024. The lexical-postlexical watershed, *ABA, and the weak domain hypothesis. DGfS 47. (Mainz). (slides)

2024. Syntactic height impacts prosodic size: An argument for cyclic prosodiﬁcation (with Paula Fenger, Nadja Fiebig and Philipp Weisser). NELS 55. (Yale).

2024. The Size-Height Correlation: An argument for cyclic prosodification (with Paula Fenger, Nadja Fiebig and Philipp Weisser). Workshop on Myopia in Grammar. (Leipzig).

2024. Opaque Interactions as Gradience in Phonology. Phonologie-Kolloquium. (Frankfurt) (slides)

2024. Prosodic domains and (re-)linearization in Indonesian nominalizing circumfixes. DGfS 2024. (Bochum). (slides)

2024. Igbo phrasal overwriting as tonal circumclitics. Workshop Traces in Phonology and Morphology. (Leipzig). (slides)

2024. Phrase-level tone opacity as shared activity in Kere. OCP21. (Leipzig). (slides)

2023. Kinande tone as layered and gradient. mfm 30. (Manchester). (slides)

2023. Parallel Interaction between Infixation and Root Domain Constraints. OCP 20. (Tours). (slides)

2023. Parallel Interaction between Infixation and Root Domain Constraints. NELS 53. (Göttingen). (poster)

2022. Headed Spans and Asymmetric Non-Triggers in Vowel Harmony. mfm 29. (University of Manchester). (slides)

2021. Edge-Biases in Mutation (with (with Daniel Gleim). 43. DGfS. (Freiburg im Breisgau).

2020. Extracting neighborhood density for lexical access using phonologically-weighted Levenshtein Distance (pwLD) (with Emiliano Zaccarella, Ute Gradmann, and Anna Carthaus). AMLaP 2020 (Potsdam).

2020. Linearizing Inflectional Exponents by Movement: Phonological Reflexes (with Daniel Gleim, Gereon Müller, and Masha Privizentseva). LCAD2020 (Bled Institute). (slides)

2019. Fuse unless tense: Rhotic-vowel interaction in Elbe-Weser German (with Daniel Gleim). 'r-atics6. (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3). (slides)

2019. Downstep Blocking by Register Circumfixes. 7th AMP. (Stony Brook University). (poster)

2019. Allophony and history of Mee velar lateral (with Peter Staroverov). 3rd PaPe. (Lecce, Italy).

2019. Multiple Feature Mutation in Papuanesia: A typological survey. APLL 11. (Leiden University). (slides)

2019. Outward mutation in Nimboran. mfm 27. (University of Manchester). (poster)

2019. Nominal Concord needs Harmonic Serialism: Evidence from Archi. GLOW 42. (University of Oslo). (poster)

2019. What's in an R? Dissimilation and R-fusion in Elbe-Weser German (with Daniel Gleim). FiNo 2019. (University of Edinburgh).

2019. Register Circumfixes Overwrite Downstep in Hausa and Chimiini. Workshop on Accent. (Leipzig University). (slides)

2018. Phonologically conditioned multiple feature mutation in Maskelynes. 6th Annual Meeting on Phonology. (University of California San Diego). (poster)

2018. Posterior affricate in Mee and consonant-vowel place interactions (with Peter Staroverov). 6th Annual Meeting on Phonology. (University of California San Diego). (poster)

2018. A Fringe Case of Perfect from Mee (with Christine Marquardt and Marie-Luise Schwarzer). TripleA5. (University of Konstanz)

2017. Gradient tones obviate floating features in Oku tone sandhi (with Jude Nformi). Workshop on Strength in Grammar. (Leipzig University). (Slides)

2017. Von der Possession die Inversion (with Marie-Luise Popp). Generative Grammatik des Südens. (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). (Slides)

2016. Exceptional and derived environments in Assamese vowel harmony (with Eva Zimmermann). 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting. (University of Manchester) (Slides, printer-friendly version)

Manuscripts

2025. Phrase-level Opacity as Shared Activity in Kere, manuscript (PDF).
2022. Interacting (with) Morpheme Structure Constraints, Dissertation (PDF).
2018. Multiple Feature Affixation in the Languages of Papuanesia, M.A. thesis
2018. Towards a Reconstruction of Proto-Paniai Lakes, manuscript (PDF)
2018. Downstep Deletion as a Register Circumfix: Q-Raising in Hausa and Chimiini as Overwriting, manuscript
2018. Linear Order in Mee Vowel Coalescence: Constraints on the directionality of spreading, manuscript (PDF)
2018. Agreement as Bounded Copying: Archi Nominal Concord and beyond, manuscript
2017. No PP-internal PP-Inversion in German, manuscript
2016. Positionally restricted tone systems in Papuan languages, B.A. thesis (PDF)

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