Education

2007 - Ph.D. - University of New York, Philosophy in Linguistics

2004 - M.A. - University of New York, Philosophy in Linguistics

1997 - B.A. - Brooklyn College of the City-University of New York, Anthropology and Philosophy

1993 - A.A. - Morrisville College of the State University of New York, Liberal Arts

Teaching and Research Interests

• Syntax
• Morphology
• The Morphology-Syntax interface
• Linguistic Theory
• Historical Morpho-Syntax
• Fieldwork on Endangered and/or Less Familiar languages
• Ethio-Semitic Linguistics
• Cushitic Linguistics
• African Linguistics
• Japanese Linguistics
• Dialectology

Courses Taught at Miami

• JPN 101: Elementary Japanese
• JPN 102: Elementary Japanese
• JPN 201: Second Year Japanese
• JPN 302: Third Year Japanese
• JPN 381: Introduction to Japanese Linguistics 

Languages

• Amharic (intermediate)
• English (near-native)
• Ga (very elementary)
• Ge'ez/Classical Ethiopic (reading knowledge)
• Japanese (native)
• Japanese-Classical (reading knowledge)
• Okinawan (reading knowledge)
• Oromo (very elementary)
• Somali (very elementary)
• Tigrinya (very elementary)