I’m a linguist who currently holds a Banting postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, under the mentorship of Peter Jenks. As of June 2024, I will be Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Département de linguistique et de traduction at Université de Montréal.
I obtained a PhD in Linguistics from McGill University. My co-advisors were Jessica Coon, Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Aron Hirsch. My thesis can be downloaded here.
Most of my theoretical research focuses on aspects of the syntax, semantics, and prosody of Chuj, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and Mexico. I also work on Québec French, my native language. Apart from research in theoretical linguistics, I’m interested in language documentation, fieldwork methodologies, and linguistic typology.
Yolnhajab’. Located on Chuj territory in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.