In a former life, I was on track to become a linguist. Here are some things I did then (and at the times I temporarily dabbled back). I still love linguistics, but I only get one life and decided to do other things instead).
Every once in a blue moon someone contacts me after data or a reference in one of my (few) old papers or conference presentations. If that describes you, you can find the papers here (but also feel free to ask me, as I always enjoy talking formal syntax and love the joy and awe of linguistic oddities and regularities).
FORMAL EDUCATION
M.A. in Linguistics (Concentration: Syntax), UCLA, 2004-2008
(part of a Ph.D. not completed, exited with an MA)
B.A. in Linguistics (major) and Psychology (minor), University of Queensland, Australia 2000-2003
First Class honors and university medal (top 1% of students university-wide)
Summer Institutes:
ABRALIN (Brazilian Linguistics Society) Institute, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), February 2011
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, June-August 2005
PAPERS AND TALKS
Talks/ Conference presentations:
“Variation in Determiners with Possessors in NP-Ellipsis Contexts in Dialects of Portuguese.” VII ABRALIN. Curitiba, February 2011
“Some Imposter Data in Brazilian Portuguese.” Seminar on Linguistic Imposters. NYU, Spring, 2010
“NP Ellipsis and the Presence of Definite Determiners with Possessors in Portuguese.” Poster presentation at Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), California State University Fresno, November 2010
“Exhaustivity in Anaphoric Simple Demonstratives in Brazilian Portuguese.” Workshop on Anaphoric uses of demonstrative expressions at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Siegen, March 2007
“A Minimalist View on Differential Object Marking for Specificity.” 36th Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistics Society, Oakland University, October 2006
“Predicate Inversion, Person Asymmetries and Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese.” 34th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of the Southwest, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, October 2005
“Predicate Inversion and Agreement Alternations in Brazilian Portuguese.” Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference 2005, Monash University, Melbourne, September 2005
Theses / Publications:
“Variation in Determiners with Possessors in Noun Phrase Ellipsis in Dialects of Portuguese.” Proceedings of the VII Congresso Internacional da ABRALIN, pp. 305-319, 2011
“Noun Phrase Ellipsis and the Presence of Definite Determiners with Possessors in Portuguese.” Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), D. Bayle and Teliga, V. (eds), pp. 156-168, 2011
“Post Verbal Subjects and Verb Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese.” M.A. Thesis. UCLA, 2008 (also here)
“Differential Object Behavior.” Undergraduate Honors Thesis (Linguistics). University of Queensland, 2003 (talk handout)
Academic Websites:
“Formal Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches to Binding Theory” (http://sites.google.com/site/bindingucla/) – Website for project lead Philippe Schlenker (NSF grant CS-0617316, Philippe Schlenker, Principal Investigator), UCLA, 2008
“Introduction to LFG and HPSG” ( formerly at http://emsah.uq.edu.au/linguistics/Working%20Papers/ananda_ling/) – University of Queensland, 2003 (live 2003-2012). Selected as a recommended source on the web companion to Andrew Carnie’s (2002, 2006) textbook, “Syntax, A Generative Introduction” and on introductory classes on LFG and HPSG at Stanford University
RESEARCH POSITIONS
Visiting graduate student (linguistics), CUNY Graduate Center, 2010
Graduate Student Researcher, Language Materials Project, UCLA Center for World Languages, Summer 2007
Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA Linguistics Department, (Philippe Schlenker, PI), Winter –Spring 2007
Summer Scholar (Linguistics), Australian National University, Canberra, Summer 2003-2004
Undergraduate Researcher, UCLA Undergraduate Summer Research Program, Summer 2002
LINGUISTICS RELATED INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Consultant Language Architect, Infogain, Summer 2013
Syntactic and semantic analysis and language engineering for Oracle Knowledge search and analytics software
Language Engineer, InQuira, 2008- 2009
Syntactic and semantic analysis and language engineering for InQuira search and analytics software
