Current members

Carolina Fraga

 Membership: 2021-present

Carolina Fraga received her PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2023. She is interested in theoretical syntax in general, and in the syntax of Spanish in particular. She has worked on spatial prepositions in Spanish and on quantifiers, and is currently doing research on the completive all/todo construction (Tenés toda arena en el pelo./You have all sand in your hair.) in both Spanish and English.

Romany (Finn) Amber

 Membership: 2023-present

Romany (Finn) Amber is a PhD student in Linguistics interested in Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and especially the way these things interact. Their work on variation started from an interest in how language use is affected by social variables. They have worked on alternative one, and variation in how causative verbs work in computing-related contexts (*They closed the door but it didn’t close vs %They closed the app but it didn’t close).

Linda Do

 Membership: 2023-present

Linda is a sophomore in Yale College planning to double major in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Linguistics. She is interested in syntactic variation and crosslinguistic influence, especially in regards to American English. With the YGDP, she has been working on lonely transitives and hopes to look into the hella construction.

Guilherme M. C. Pereira

 Membership: 2023-present

Guilherme Pereira is a junior in Yale College majoring in Linguistics. He is primarily interested in syntax (especially that of American English and Brazilian Portuguese dialects), as well as phonology and dialect mapping. He is currently working on maps for the “one” construction (for example, He was in Tennessee or Kentucky, one), and he has also worked on social media posts that synthesize information from YGDP pages to raise awareness about the systematicity of stigmatized language varieties.

 

Squid Tamar-Mattis

 Membership: 2023-present

Squid Tamar-Mattis is a PhD student in Linguistics at Yale from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is interested in syntax, morphology and semantics. He has studied variation in the have yet to and try and constructions, as well as quantifier constructions like a many of a time. Outside of YGDP, he also works on variation in Person-Case Constraint repair strategies in Basque.

David Garsten

 Membership: 2024-present
David is a sophomore in Yale College majoring in Linguistics. He is interested in grammaticalization and morphosyntactic evolution, language revitalization and documentation, and using computational tools to bridge the gap between linguistics and animal communication. He is currently researching the it’s giving and just screams constructions.
 

Ella Moran

 Membership: 2024-present
Ella Moran is a sophomore in Yale College majoring in Linguistics and pursuing a certificate in Data Science. She is interested in syntax, semantics, and dialect mapping. Currently, she is working on the “lonely transitive” construction, as in “I have an apple. Do you want?”