EDUCATION

PhD, Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2002. 

Teaching certification, secondary level Latin and mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992. 

BA with highest honors, Classics, minors in French, mathematics; The University of Texas at Austin, 1991. 

Category Neutrality: A Type-Logical Investigation. 2005. Routledge Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. Committee: David R. Dowty (Chair), Carl J. Pollard, W. Detmar Meurers.

Right-node wrapping: Multimodal categorial grammar and the “Friends in Low Places” coordination. 2009. In Theory and Evidence in Semantics. Hinrichs, Erhard, and John Nerbonne, eds. Stanford: CSLI, 235-256.

Semantics and pragmatics of English verbal dependent coordination. 2004. Language 80.403-434.

A categorial treatment of adverbial nouns. 2002. Journal of Linguistics 38.521-597.

OTHER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

What and how we can learn from “mixed-wh” interrogatives. 2002. Chicago Linguistic Society 38, vol. 1. 679-692.

A categorial treatment of bare-NP adverbs. 2000. OSU Working Papers in Linguistics 53.132-167.

Ringe revisited: Comments on Ringe’s probabilistic comparison method. 1999. With Pauline Welby. OSU Working Papers in Linguistics 52.63-76.

Bare-NP adverbials and adjunct extraction. 1998. OSU Working Papers in Linguistics 48.167-214.

OTHER WRITING

Occasional guest writer for “Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing” podcast. May 2010–present

Regular contributor of columns on language to online magazine Visual Thesaurus. Sept. 2009-present.

Literal-Minded: Linguistic commentary from a guy who takes things too literally. Linguistics blog, Jan. 2004-present.

     Instructor, Linguistics and English, Fall 2002-Spring 2003.
     Regional branches of Ohio University.

Linguistics 270: The Nature of Language.
(Fall 2002, Chillicothe. Winter 2003, Zanesville, Pickerington. Spring 2003, Pickerington.)

English 151: Writing and Rhetoric.
(Fall 2002, Zanesville.)

     Teaching assistant, ESL Composition, Fall 1995-Spring 2002.
     The Ohio State University.

ESL 107G: Advanced English as a Second Language.

ESL108.01: Academic Writing in English as a Second Language.

ESL106: General English as a Second Language.

     At conferences

“No news is good news”: The quantifier-SOA ambiguity in English. Poster, Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jan. 2011. (Handout)

Deriving wide-scoping operators in an associative Lambek categorial grammar. Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland, Jan. 2010.

Wide-scoping operators without abstract movement. Conference of the Ohio University Linguistics Department (COULD), May 2009.

Crosslinguistic semantics of coordinated-wh interrogatives. Conference of the Ohio University Linguistics Department (COULD), May 2007.

What and how we can learn from “mixed-wh” interrogatives. Poster, 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Apr. 2002.

Predicative noun phrases, and the reality of neutrality. Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, California, Jan. 2002.

Ringe’s probabilistic comparative method applied to Ojibwa, Cree, Arapaho, and Yurok. 27th Algonquian Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Oct. 1995.

     Other

Mixed-wh interrogatives. Dept. of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, June 2002.

Conjunctive and disjunctive constructors in categorial grammar. Syntax seminar, Dept. of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, May 2002.

Adverbial nouns. Synners discussion group, Dept. of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Mar. 2002. Mixed-wh interrogatives. Dept. of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Jan. 2002.

SERVICE

     Primary and secondary education outreach

Currently coaching fifth- and sixth-grade students for participation in North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.

Occasional presentations on linguistic topics to elementary and middle school classes, topics tailored to fit teachers’ curriculum objectives. 2007–present.

     Committees

Linguistic Society of America Committee on Linguistics in School Curriculum. 2009–present.

Linguistic Society of American Committee on Public Relations. 2010–present.

     Reviewing

Manuscripts for Studia Linguistica, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Reviewed and/or offered commentary for drafts of Coordination in Syntax (Zhang, 2010), The F-Word (Sheidlower, 2009).

Occasional manuscripts or dissertation chapter drafts.

French, Spanish: intermediate conversational and reading proficiency.

Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Old English: intermediate reading proficiency.

German, Russian, Chinese (Mandarin): Elementary.