Research

My main research interests lie in theoretical syntax and morphology. I am particularly interested in questions pertaining to the division of labor between different modules: how important is the role of syntax in the architecture of grammar and what does the interface with morphology and phonology look like? Specific empirical domains that I have worked on include the structure of noun phrases, argument structure, and complementation.

I believe in the value of data from understudied languages, and this is why my work is based on data from fieldwork (though I occasionally also work on Modern Greek,  my native language). My main focus is on the severely underdescribed and understudied Nilotic languages, and especially Kalenjin languages/dialects. Since 2015 I have been doing  fieldwork on the Kipsigis dialect of Kalenjin in Kenya and the US, and between 2021 and 2023 I was the PI of a DFG-funded project on grammatical number in Eastern Sudanic languages, through which I started fieldwork on another two Kalenjin dialects (Endo-Marakwet and Pokot). 

Click here for a list of publications and here for handouts/slides that have not turned into papers (yet).