I am a PhD Candidate in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center working on the syntax of copular sentences, like He ate too much pie is what he ate, where the copula is shows different behavior that it does in other sentence types. In my dissertation, I hope to provide a unified account of these oddly-behaving copulas that will also shed some light on the structure of equative sentences and the status of copulas in a cross-linguistic perspective.

I work as an adjunct lecturer in the New York City area, and have taught courses in linguistics, T.E.S.O.L., Spanish, English composition, and interdisciplinary humanities.