I'm Greg (he/him), a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. My dissertation supervisor is Daphna Heller, and my committee members are Michela Ippolito and Craig Chambers. 

I work primarily within the intersections of semantics and psycholinguistics. I'm interested in cross-linguistic patterns involving definite and demonstrative descriptions across various contexts, and the mechanisms that potentially drive these distributions. My dissertation explores topics including anaphoricity, bridging and uniqueness in "determinerless" languages like Mandarin Chinese and Labrador Inuttitut, via elicited production studies, referential communication tasks, and self-paced reading tasks.

I am deeply interested in language documentation, ethical fieldwork practices, and the description and analysis of understudied languages. My work on Labrador Inuttitut is embedded within the Inuttitut Verb Class Project (PI: Susana Bejar). Earlier in my graduate studies, I conducted descriptive and theoretical work on semantic aspects of Macuxi (Cariban), an indigenous language spoken in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela, on topics including pluractionality, space and motion. 

My work has been supported by a Doctoral Fellowship (2021-25) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and a Jackman Junior Fellowship from the Jackman Humanities Institute (2020–24).