About
My research centers on the pragmatics of "linguistic misfits", a term I warmly apply to both my languages of interest (hybrid and minority contact varieties, such as Creoles) and my domains of specialization (multifunctional deictic and pragmatic items, such as pragmatic markers).
In my work, I draw upon insights and methodologies from creolistics and contact linguistics, corpus and experimental pragmatics, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and sign language and gesture.
Currently, I am investigating the functions and features of pragmatic markers and locatives in Kwéyòl Donmnik, an understudied French-influenced Creole, as well as exploring the usage of pragmatic markers as expressions of racioethnic identity.
My background affords me a strong foundation in Romance linguistics, as well as ample experience teaching linguistics and academic writing at the university level.
