I am a fourth 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 broadly concerned with syntax and its interface with the lexicon. At LF, I work on argument structure and the mapping relationship between root semantics and syntax, with a focus on variable unaccusativity and other flexible linkings between arguments and structural positions. Towards PF, I work on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax such as suspended affixation. 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 giving a talk on argument structure at Yale's Syntax Reading Group on December 6. My handout is here.

◽  I'll be at the 2025 LSA presenting 1) a vector-symbolic representation of syntax in working memory (with Maayan Keshev and Brian Dillon), 2) new findings on non-standard Turkish affix ordering, and 3) a corpus study on animacy and telicity in Hindi intransitives (with Rajesh Bhatt and Shaunak Phadnis).