About

I am an incoming fourth-year Ph.D. student at Yale Linguistics, advised under Jim Wood and Veneeta Dayal. My research lies primarily in syntax and its interfaces with morphology and semantics, with a specialization in linguistic fieldwork on languages spoken in the (South) Caucasus, e.g., Georgian (Kartvelian). Listed below are my narrower set of research interests:

• clausal complementation
  • (non-)finiteness
  • obligatory control
  • interrogative embedding
• deverbal nominalization
  • ergative case-marking
  • argument structure
  • clause size
• indefinite pronouns
  • scope variability
  • polarity sensitive items

More broadly, I am interested in linguistic theory through the lens of understudied and/or typologically unique languages (or language families), and how investigating such languages could inform current theories of generative grammar—specifically, to determine the formal mapping between morphosyntactic structure and the interpretive component of meaning.

Currently, I am a graduate fellow in the European Studies Council at Yale and a member of the Caucasian Languages in Georgia International Research Network (CauLaGeNet). Before that, I was an undergraduate student in the Working on Language in the Field (WOLF) and Meaning & Modality (M&M) Labs at Harvard University.

My surname is pronounced [lυ̯ɔ] with a rising tone; I also accept [luˈoʊ] in English conversation.

Outside of linguistics, I like to indulge in card/board games, classical music, and nature hiking.