I received my Ph.D. in linguistics from Penn in 2003. My
dissertation is called The Relationship Between Form and Function in
Ditransitive Constructions, and you can read it here! [ps] [pdf]
Currently I work as a linguist/program manager in the Windows Globalization group at Microsoft, where my main interests are in productizing work in machine translation, computational linguistics, and other areas of human-computer interaction going on at Microsoft Research. I'm also working on linguistic collation and other locale data and language taxonomy and policy. My current focus is on computational work, but most of my academic background concerns pragmatics, syntax, semantics, and the interfaces between these areas; language acquisition; and language contact. I have an areal interest in Polynesian languages, especially Tahitian and Tongan. I've looked at ditransitive constructions, reflexivity, passives, and a variety of constructions using non-canonical word order (topicalization, left-dislocation, inversion... ). |
These pages were last updated (a little) on December 20, 2004.