A bit about me
My undergraduate degree is in German Studies and Classics from Grinnell College, and I completed a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classics at UCLA last year. I am now a second-year graduate student in the Program in Indo-European Studies, lovingly called PIES. I focus on language change and variation and to that end am interested in developing datasets and computational methods for analyses of language change and variation. Currently, I am exploring models classified under the broad headings of Bayesian Phylogenetics and Agent-Based Modeling. I am also interested in exploring acquisition-related constraints on diachronic trajectories of different categories of linguistic characters (e.g., grammaticalization trajectories, phonetics-induced sound change) and how the learning of hidden structure (e.g., footing alignment, clitic incorporation, exceptionalities in the lexicon) interacts with (and contributes to) language change. I base my investigations primarily on the ancient Indo-European languages— especially Greek, Latin, and Vedic Sanskrit. If anything here or on my CV interests you, please reach out!
