About
I am a sixth-year graduate student in linguistics at Harvard (CV, Twitter, GitHub), currently working on my PhD thesis on the semantics, morphology, and typology of multifunctional particles with a special focus on Sakha and Tuvan. I am advised by Jonathan Bobaljik and Gennaro Chierchia.
My main research areas are semantics, morphology, and morphosyntax. One area of particular interest to me is the morphosyntactic expression of polarity-sensitive (and free-choice) elements, particularly when languages uses particles to build these elements. Other topics that I am interested in are coordination, focus, possession, synthetic/analytic alternations, allomorphy, and blocking effects. I have a special interested in Turkic languages, particularly the understudied Siberian branch. I am advised by Jonathan Bobaljik and Gennaro Chierchia.
I am also an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
I do not update this website often. More frequent updates can be found on other website ilkirby.com.