Hi! 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, particularly on the topic of reference. My dissertation research explores how definite and demonstrative descriptions are used across various visually-situated and discursive contexts in Mandarin Chinese, a language without overt definite determiners. My work explores topics including uniqueness, familiarity and typicality, making use of methods from cognitive science.

I am also deeply interested in language documentation, psycholinguistics in the field, and the description and analysis of understudied languages. As part of the Inuttitut Language Group (PI: Susana Bejar), I am currently investigating reference in Labrador Inuttitut, particularly on its inventory of demonstratives, based on original fieldwork data. 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, under the supervision of Suzi Lima. 

My work has been supported by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2025-2026), the Mark Gayn Graduate Scholarship (2025-2026), 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). My work on Labrador Inuttitut has been supported by the Northern Scientific Training Program (2025).