Organizing Dimensions of Language in the Brain How does the human brain encode the meaning of a sentence? I will focus on two studies investigating this question.  The first study investigates what kinds of linguistic input the human fronto-temporal language network is most responsive to. By leveraging large language models to identify sentences that maximally […]

The case of Tagalog Case Abstract: In this talk, I revisit the longstanding debate on the nature of the Philippine-type morphosyntactic alignment system, often also referred to as "Austronesian voice". This system is typologically unique in tracking a privileged argument (the "pivot") through affixes on the verb rather than relying solely on nominal case marking […]