My Research

Modality. I'm interested in the language we use to talk out possibilities (e.g., must, might, have to, could, will, would). Specifically, I'm interested in the relationship between modal and causal language (e.g., made, forced, because). 


My research is interdisciplinary. I explore:


Bridging cognitive psychology and formal semantics. 

A principal goal of my research is to show just how particularly apt the investigation into modal language is for answering questions common to both cognitive science and formal semantics.