Selected recent works:
Books:
- Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars. (2024). M.Polinsky & M.T. Putnam (eds.), Berlin: Language Science Press. Link
Book chapters & articles:
- The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly. (2024). Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 14(1): 1-36. Manuscript. (w/ Terje Lohndal).
- Stability in the integrated bilingual grammar: Tense exponency in North American Norwegian. (2023). Nordic Journal of Linguistics. FirstView. (w/ D. Natvig & A. Lykke)
- Expanding structures while reducing mappings: Morphosyntactic complexity in agglutinating heritage languages. (2024). In: M. Polinsky & M.T. Putnam (eds.), Formal approaches to complexity in heritage languages. Berlin: Language Science Press. DRAFT. (w/ T. Lohndal).
- When covert modality sneaks into your grammar: wh-infinitives in American Norwegian. (in press). Second Language Research. FirstView. (w/ Å Søfteland).
- Mismatches at the syntax-semantics interface - The case of non-finite complementation in American Norwegian. (2022). Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 45(3): 310-347. Manuscript. (w/ Å. Søfteland)
- Why is inflectional morphology difficult to borrow? - Distributing and lexicalizing plural allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch. (2022). Languages, 7, 86. Manuscript. (w/ R. Fisher, D. Natvig, E. Pretorius, & K. Schuhmann)
- Reducing the role of prosody: Plural allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch. (2022). WILA 11 Proceedings: 1-10. Manuscript. (w/ R. Fisher & K. Schuhmann).
- Variation in infinitive markers in American Norwegian. (2022). WILA 10 Proceedings: 60-68. Manuscript. (w/ Å. Søfteland & A. Hjelde).
- Competition at the left-edge: Left-dislocation vs. topicalization in Heritage Germanic. (2021). WILA 10 Proceedings: 11-21. Manuscript. (w/ J. Bousquette, K. Eide, & A. Hjelde)
- The tale of two lexicons: Decomposing complexity across a distributed lexicon. (2021). Heritage Language Journal, 18(2): 1-29. Pre-proof PDF. (w/ T. Lohndal)
- Addressing challenges in formal research on moribund heritage languages: A path forward. (2021). Frontiers in Psychology, 12(700126). Manuscript. (w/ R. D'Alessandro & D. Natvig)
- Overextension in Gottscheerisch (negative) imperatives: Proclisis at the edge of the first phase. (2021). Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 24(2): 189-215. Pre-proof PDF. (w/ A. Hoffman)
- How wide the divide? - Theorizing 'constructions' in generative and usage-based frameworks. (2021). Frontiers in Psychology, 10(3389). Manuscript. (w/ M. Carlson & A. Fábregas)
- Lesser-studied Heritage Languages: An appeal to the dyad. (2020). Heritage Language Journal, 17(2): 152-155. Manuscript. (w/ G. Scontras).
- Agree probes down: Anaphoric feature valuation and phase reference. (2020). In: P.W. Smith, J. Mursell, & K. Hartmann (eds.), Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme (pp. 347-389). Berlin: Language Science Press. Manuscript. (w/ M. Diercks & M. van Koppen)
- Differential access: Asymmetries in accessing features and building representations in Heritage Language Grammars. (2019). Languages, 4(81). Manuscript. (w/ S. Perez-Cortes & L. Sánchez)
- Integrated, not isolated: Defining typological proximity in an integrated multilingual architecture. (2018). Frontiers in Psychology, 8(2212). Manuscript. (w/ M. Carlson & D. Reitter)
Selected recent presentations:
- On the similarities and differences between diachronic & contact-induced syntactic change. (2022). 13th GLOW in Asia. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. August 6. Presentation. (w/ R. D'Alessandro & S. Terenghi)
- The shape and size of defective domains in Pennsylvania Dutch. (2021). Heritage Language Syntax 2. University of Utrecht, Netherlands. Dec 17. Presentation.
- The syntax of d- and w-elements & the nature of pseudo-resumptives in Pennsylvania Dutch. (2021). CGSW 35. University of Trento, Italy, June 23. Presentation.
- Heritage grammars and linguistic complexity: A view from grammatical gender. (2021). Cambridge Linguistic Society. Cambridge University (UK). Jan 28. Presentation. (w/ T. Lohndal)
- The limits of variation: Separable prefixes in Heritage German. (2020). HU-Colloquium: Multilingualism, language contact, and variation. HU-Berlin (Germany). Dec 10. Presentation.