E-mail: emhanink [at] iu.edu
Welcome!
I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Linguistics at Indiana
University. I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of
Chicago in 2018.
My primary research area lies in theoretical
syntax, with a particular focus on understanding how syntax interfaces
with semantics and morphology.
More narrowly, my work investigates theoretical issues surrounding
relativization, nominalization,
clausal embedding, agreement/concord, and categorization.
Much of my research draws from my fieldwork on Wá·šiw (Washo),
an Indigenous language spoken around Lake Tahoe
(dáʔaw). More recently, I have also become
involved with the
Chin Languages Research Project. One aim of my
work is to highlight the
contributions of understudied and Indigenous languages to the development of linguistic
theory.
Recent and upcoming
April 2025. Talk to be given at WCCFL 43, University of Washington: Verb stem alternation and successive cyclic movement in Falam Chin.
February 2025. Invited talk at the How we do (not) talk about mistaken beliefs workshop, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (joint work with M. Ryan Bochnak): Two paths to clausal embedding in Wá·šiw.
September 2024. Paper accepted at Linguistic Inquiry (with Andrew Koontz-Garboden): Possession in categorization across language and category
May 2024. Talk at the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) at LREC-COLING with Meesum Alam, Francis Tyers, and Sandra Kübler): Universal dependencies for Saraiki. Torino, Italy.
April 2024. Poster at the 24th Workshop on Structure and Consituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) (with Andrew Koontz-Garboden): What makes a bipartite verb? A case study from Wá·šiw. University of Toronto.
February 2024. Colloquium at Rutgers University. Deriving entities in the syntax at the A and A' level.
January 2024. Talk at the Linguistic Society of America's annual meeting with Andrew Koontz-Garboden: Resultative bipartite verbs in Wá·šiw. New York City.