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I am a second-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. My research interests lie in diachronic syntax, language as an evolutionary system, and quantitative methods in linguistic research.

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18 Is Nicaraguan Sign Language the only language born from nothing? Sep 14 '11
15 Do some languages have articles besides the definite and indefinite articles? Sep 14 '11
15 The relationship between “orange” the colour and “orange” the fruit Sep 30 '11
15 Is there anything analogous to grammatical gender for verbs? May 13 '12
14 Why do tone and simple syllable structure appear to be correlated? Oct 5 '11
13 Is it possible to predict language changes? Sep 24 '11
13 Are there creoles of three languages? Sep 27 '11
12 Are there grammatical analyses of languages that are extremely different from IE grammar? Sep 26 '11
12 How did the present continuous in English get to be such a dominant present tense? Sep 14 '11
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