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I am a linguist working in tech. I have a PhD in linguistics from MIT and several years experience teaching linguistics at the university level at Yale University and New York University.
My research interests are in syntax and semantics, including theoretical and experimental approaches to language science broadly defined.

I have contributed to the following articles:

• Araki language
• Araki island
• Donkey sentences
• Discourse Representation Theory
• Anaphora

• Anastasia Giannakidou

• Ana Arregui

• Marga Reis

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