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.
Split Case-Marking Without Split Alignment: Megrelian, Ergativity, and Source-Oriented Approaches (Presentation) - Emerging Topics in Typology in Mainz, Germany
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.