Within this region and family, I am interested in examining how language contact and patterns of mutlilingualism within and between language families can and does contribute to patterns of areal diffusion and crosslinguistic variation. I am also interested in how various sociocultural, economic, and typological factors in language contact areas affect the outcomes of that contact on the linguistic system, as well as how linguistic "complexity" is conceptualized and treated within the literature.
Combining Computational and Qualitative Methods for Family-Internal Borrowings: A Case Study (Presentation) - Challenges for Computer-Assisted Language Comparison Workshop, International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Santiago, Chile
Arabic Loanwords in Dagestan Through the Lens of Geography and Linguistic Ecology (Presentation) - Caucasian Linguistics: Recent Advances and Emerging Topics in Lyon, France
A Computer-Assisted Approach to Lexical Borrowing in the Northeast Caucasian Languages (Thesis) - University of Kentucky, Master of Arts in Linguistic Theory and Typology. May 2024
Applying quantitative methods for detecting Russian borrowings to the Nakh-Daghestanian language family (Poster) - Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. January 2024.
From spider to skillet: Diachronic methods applied to the Linguistic Atlas Project (Poster with Nour Kayali) - American Dialect Society Annual Meeting. January 2024.
Cognate detection in the Nakh-Daghestanian language family (Presentation) - Central Kentucky Linguistics Conference, University of Kentucky. Spring 2023.
An examination of the nominal phrase in the Nakh-Daghestanian language family (Presentation) - Central Kentucky Linguistics Conference, University of Kentucky. Spring 2022.