" src="/profiles/openscholar/modules/contrib/wysiwyg/plugins/break/images/spacer.gif" title="<--break-->">My research is in the semantics of natural language: how utterances come to have the meanings they do, and how meaning interacts with linguistic structure. Currently I am studying how the behavior of polarity items—words like ever which can only appear in certain places, like following before but not after—differs between English and other languages, and am running online experiments to gather data and test hypotheses about these differences.