Job title:
PhD Student
Bio/CV:
Tomás is a semanticist and fieldworker interested in cross-linguistic variation. Before starting at Berkeley, he did a BA/MA at Yale, advised by Claire Bowern and Zoltán Szabó. He is interested in gradability, comparison, and context-sensitivity. His research draws on insights from Indigenous Australian languages, especially Pitjantjatjara, a language spoken in Central Australia.
Research interests:
- Semantics & pragmatics
- Fieldwork
- Crosslinguistic variation & typology
- Gradability
- Pitjantjatjara (Pama-Nyungan)
