• The postsyntactic derivation and its phonological reflexes Completed July 2008. Committee: David Embick (supervisor), Mark Liberman, Rolf Noyer.   [pdf] (1.4MB)

• A-movement locality and intervention effects in Luganda
  Presented at the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, UCLA, May 2008   [paper]

• Clause size and relativization in Luganda
  Presented at the Movement and Word Order in Bantu Conference, Leiden, March 2008

• Symmetrical passives and EPP in Bantu
  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 2008

• Relative clauses without CPs in Luganda
  Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2007), University of California, San Diego, Dec. 2007   [paper]

• Clause size and phonological domains in Huave and Luganda Presented at the 3rd Syntax-Phonology Interface in the Northeast (SPINE-3) Workshop, Cornell University, May 2007

• Phrasal tone domains in San Mateo Huave (2007)
  Based on fieldwork in San Mateo del Mar, Mexico, supervised by Rolf Noyer, July 2006. To appear in the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.
  [paper] | [about huave]

• The structural conditions on two types of phrasal rules
  Presented at the 2nd Syntax-Phonology Interface in the Northeast (SPINE-2) Workshop, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2006

• French phrasal phonology in a derivational model of PF
  (M. Pak and M. Friesner) In Proceedings of NELS 36, vol. 2, 2006, ed. Christopher Davis et al., pp. 480-491.   [paper] | [poster]

• Non-subject gaps in the Old English to-infinitive
  Presented at Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL 4), September 2005

• Explaining branchingness effects in phrasal phonology
  In Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 2005, ed. John Alderete et al., pp. 308-316. [paper]

• Infinitive marking with for: a diachronic account
  Presented at the 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. In Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 12.1, 2006, pp. 293-306. [paper]

• The history of the English infinitive: some implications for the theory of grammar and grammar change
  (A. Kroch and M. Pak) Presented by Anthony Kroch at the Workshop on Germanic Infinitives, Konstanz, September 2004

LINGUISTICS TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS
- LING-001: Introduction to Linguistics (Fall 2004, David Embick)
- LING-102: Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Spring 2004, Bill Labov)
- LING-001: Introduction to Linguistics (Fall 2003, Mark Liberman)

ESL INSTRUCTION
- ESL/Literacy Tutor, LCFS of Eastern Pennsylvania (2003-2006)
- ESL Tutor, Bo De Vietnamese Buddhist Temple, Philadelphia (2003)
- ESL Tutor, Arlington Education and Employment Program (2001-2002)
- English Conversation Instructor, Suncheon Girls' High School, Korea
   (Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, 1994-1995)

AWARDS
Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students (2004)