Research Interests: Ventureño Chumash; Chumashan (languages); Native American languages; Mongolian; nominalization, reference, definiteness, lexicography, lexicographical semantics, morphological aspect, obstruent VOT, writing systems.

Teaching interests: Semantics, historical linguistics, morphology, morphosyntax, phonetics, SLA.

The applied linguistics emphasis at UCSB has been absolutely necessary for the research I became involved in. Without it, my work on teaching a native language of California as a second language would have been impossible. The emphasis has both practical and scholarly applications in that it may nicely complement one's research interests in unexpected as well as expected ways.