I got my Ph.D. at the Rutgers Linguistics program in 2020 and I'm the leader of the Xinane Language Documentation Project (Museu do Índio-RJ, Brazil & UNESCO). My research has always combined Formal Linguistics and Language Documentation.

 

On one end, I'm interested in topics at the interface between Syntax and Semantics, such as switch-reference and its interaction with case and agreement, negative concord (especially in Romance languages), and quantification. On the other, I'm invested in (monolingual) fieldwork methodology, language description, and collaborative work with minority language communities, in both education and language revitalization. 

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Much of my work is based on data from the Panoan language Yawanawa, which I started studying in 2010. I have been traveling to Acre and working with native speakers ever since, having coordinated a number of Language Documentation projects and organized a book of traditional Yawanawa narratives.

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Watch a short documentary about my work with the Yawanawa community.

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