I am a fifth year PhD candidate at the Linguistics Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I hold an MA in Linguistics from University College London and a BA in Comparative Literature from Free University of Berlin.

My research is concerned with the interface between syntax and the lexicon, or more generally, between the generative, productive aspects of language and its random idiosyncrasies. At LF, I work on argument structure, focusing on how the lexical semantics of verbal roots is integrated into the functional structure. Towards PF, I work on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax such as subword coordination. I dabble in computational modelling and distributional semantics, and I have an interest in language contact and diachrony.

My last name is pronounced [nɔɪ]. I welcome all reasonable realizations of my first name. My pronouns are she/her.

News

◽ I'm presenting my dissertation work at the NYU Syntax Brown Bag on November 7. My prospectus is here.

◽  New manuscript (with Faruk Akkuş): On some putative unaccusativity diagnostics.

◽  I'll be at NELS at NYU to give a talk together with Lulu Guo on a multidominance analysis of phrasal and subword RNR (handout, abstract).

◽  My paper Hybridity and change in Turkish inflectional morphology has been accepted at Linguistic Variation.