Nikolas Webster  (he/him/his)

Niko Webster

Hello, and welcome! My name is Niko, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in my 6th and final year at the UC Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics. I am a theoretical syntactician, with an empirical focus on Korean. My primary advisor is Ivy Sichel.

I have interest in the syntax and semantics of argument structure, verb decomposition, and locality. In my independent research, I have worked on or continue to work on: nominalization paradigms and nominal argument structure in Korean, syntactic approaches to morphology, information structure effects on island extraction, presuppositionality and differential case marking, animacy biases in online processing, and the consequences of timing with respect to syntactic vs. post-syntactic head movement operations. I incorporate both theoretical and experimental approaches in my work.

Prior to joining UC Santa Cruz, I received my B.A. in Linguistics from New York University (NYU), with minors in Korean Language and Studio Art. Outside of work, I enjoy crochet, video games, and queer Argentinian tango.

Contact: newebste [at] ucsc [dot] edu
Office hours: Tuesdays 12:00-1:00pm (or by appointment), in STEV 232A

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