I lead the Grammatical Theory Group at McMaster University and am currently accepting MSc and PhD students. If you are interested in working with me, please get in touch. Information about the graduate program, funding, and admissions is available here.
In progress. Sandrine Guilbert, PhD supervisor.
In progress. Ethan Stollar, PhD committee member.
In progress. Kurtis Commanda, 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. Braulio Lopes, PhD supervisor. The morphosyntax and pragmatics of negation in Minas Portuguese.
In progress. Haiyang Liu, PhD committee member.
In progress. Nadia Lana, PhD committee member.
2024 Aya Zarka, PhD examining committee 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 under control.
2022 Lydia Felice, PhD committee member. Cyclicity and linearity in Distributed Morphology.
In progress. Roronhiakehte Deer, PhD comprehensive paper supervisor.
2025 Jaqin (Joyce) Zeng. PhD comprehensive paper supervisor. Mass and count in Mandarin Chinese syntax.
2021 Zhuosi Luo. Optional causees in Teochew ‘give’-causatives.
2021 Jessica Kotfila. Artificial grammaticalization: The role of distributional cues in language acquisition and language change.
2020 Christiana McGrady. Alternations in Finnish nominal direct object marking.
2019 Bernard O’Connor. Split number and nominal classification: Evidence from derivation-internal broken plurals in Standard Arabic.
2019 Sasha Slone. Revisiting Japanese resultatives.
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.
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 configurational theories of 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.