I am a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt.

I am interested in formal syntax, and especially in the theory of locality: how its constraints are best defined, how they evolved, and how they differ within and across languages. A central question for me is whether (and how) these constraints relate to, or even reduce to, domain-general constraints on processing.

More broadly, I like to adopt a Minimalist approach to explore questions about the architecture of the language faculty and its evolution, with one driving research question in mind: what can be attributed to abstract rules of grammar and what should be ascribed to independent factors of human cognition?

As part of NegLab (CRC Negation in Language and Beyond), I also investigate negative concord phenomena.

Empirically, I test my research questions using a range of off-line and on-line measures of sentence processing.