I'm Jacob, a second year PhD student of Linguistics at NYU and recent graduate from Harvard University (c/o '24) where I received a Joint Bachelors of Arts in Linguistics and Computer Science (Highest Honors), along with a language citation in Modern Japanese. I'm interested in morpho-syntax, semantics, and linguistic fieldwork. You'll often find me theorizing about clausal embedding and long distance dependencies, agreement, and various types of opacities, be it phonological or syntactic. At NYU, I am advised by Chris Collins, and I have worked closely with Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard) on a number of fieldwork projects since my time at Harvard.

I am also passionate about language revitalization and documentation. I have linguistic fieldwork experience in languages from several language families, including Alabama (Muskogean), Georgian (Kartvelian) Japanese, Korean, and Oshiwambo (Bantu)