Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. I received my PhD from McGill University under the supervision of Junko Shimoyama, Lisa Travis, and Jessica Coon. Prior to joining NTHU, I previously served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the National University of Singapore. My main research interests lie with Tagalog, an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines, and how it can inform our understanding of syntax and semantics.

My dissertation investigates the structure and distribution of A’-dependencies (relative clauses, wh-questions, etc.) in Tagalog by considering a wider ranged of data than in previous work.

My work primarily draws on elicitation and fieldwork data from native speaker (and my own) judgements, but I am always on the lookout for ways to incorporate larger amounts of data using experimental and/or computational methods.

Recent and upcoming

• Aug 2024: I have joined the Institute of Linguistics at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan as an assistant professor!
• Jun 2024: An eye-tracking corpus of adult Tagalog speakers’ natural text reading comprehension, poster presentation at 16-ICAL in Manila (with Yu-Yin Hsu)
• Jun 2024: Untangling the Tagalog second-position clitic adverbs, invited talk at the 11th TripleA workshop (joint work with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)
• Nov 2023: My paper entitled Observations on Tagalog Genitive Extraction has been published in Oceanic Linguistics