I direct the Grammatical Theory Group at McMaster University, and accept new students at MSc and PhD levels. If you’re interested in working with me, feel free to reach out. Information about our graduate programs are available here.
In progress. Sandrine Guilbert, PhD supervisor.
In progress. Braulio Lopes, PhD supervisor. The morphosyntax and pragmatics of negation in Minas Portuguese.
In progress. Ethan Stollar, PhD committee member.
In progress. Roronhiakehte Deer, PhD committee member. Nouns and category in Cayuga.
In progress. Audrey Ho, PhD committee member. Information structure and word order in Mandarin.
In progress. Kurtis Commanda, PhD committee member.
In progress. Haiyang Liu, PhD committee member.
In progress. Nadia Lana, PhD committee member.
2024 Aya Zarka, PhD committee, examining member (Ben-Gurion University/ McMaster). Differential Object Marking in Levantine Arabic.
2024 Zhuosi Luo, PhD committee member. The structure of causatives and the contextual interpretation of Causees.
2023 Frederico Prado, PhD committee member. Hyper-raising in Brazilian Portuguese.
2022 Lydia Felice, PhD committee member. Cyclicity and linearity in Distributed Morphology.
In progress. Roronhiakehte Deer, PhD comprehensive supervisor.
2025 Jaqin (Joyce) Zeng. PhD comprehensive supervisor. Mass and count in Mandarin Chinese.
In progress. Jinmei Zhang, MSc thesis supervisor. Hyper-raising in Mandarin.
In progress. Olivia Carstensen, MSc thesis co-supervisor (with Phoebe Gaston). Cantonese discontinuous predicates in syntax and phonology.
In progress. Derya Sonmez, MSc thesis supervisor. Affix stranding and suspended affixation in Turkish.
2024 Audrey Ho, MSc committee member. Syntactic restructuring in the Cantonese noun phrase. MSc supervisory committee.
2020 Hannah Wingett, MA thesis supervisor. TP, CP, and PRO in Gã.
2026 Amba Mohammed, BA Honours thesis supervisor. A syntactic analysis of two Voice alternations in Trinidadian English.
2026 Benjamin Earle, BA Honours thesis supervisor: Case assignment in Sakha: Testing theories of dependent and Abstract Case.
2025 Rankini Kulatilake, BA Honours thesis supervisor. From intention to action: The morphosyntax of volitionality in Sinhala.
2024 Jacob Rice, BA Honours thesis supervisor. On the syntax of fa ‘do’ in Monnese.
2021 Sasha Jovanovski, BA Honours thesis supervisor. Vratnicći: A descriptive grammar.