Hi!
I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the DFG-funded project SILPAC (H4, PI George Walkden) at the University of Konstanz. My research focuses on the role of learning in language change in the syntactic domain. In the project, I investigate how non-finite complementation, in particular -ing complements, spread in Early Modern English.
I recently completed my PhD at the Centre for Language Evolution (CLE) at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Profs. Jennifer Culbertson and Simon Kirby. In my PhD project, I addressed the question of how distributional properties of verb second (V2) languages affect the loss or retention of the V2 property. I conducted artificial language learning experiments and used corpora to investigate this question empirically.
My secret linguistic love is Romansh, a Romance language spoken in the Swiss canton of the Grisons (Graubünden).