I am an assistant professor of computational linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literature, in Communication. My research uses formal, experimental, and computational methods to study how linguistic meaning (semantics) is represented in the mind and interacts with other aspects of cognition and contexts of use. I'm particularly partial to seeing how the meaning of "funny" constructions that appear idiosyncratic or non-compositional on the surface can actually reveal deep general properties about how humans construct meanings in conversation.  Some recent topics of interest include questions, negation, clausal embedding, tense and aspect, and numeral semantics.

Much of my work is informed by a cross-linguistic perspective, but particularly of Estonian, which I have been studying in varying capacities since 2015.

I also like board games, crossword puzzles, science fiction, and cats, and have a genuinely compulsive need to spoonerize.