Nikolas Webster  (he/him/his)

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Hello, and welcome! My name is Niko, and I am a 4th year Ph.D. student in the UC Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics. My research interests lie in syntactic theory and language typology, with an empirical focus on Korean. My primary advisor is Ivy Sichel.

I have particular interest in the syntax and semantics of argument structure, locality domains, functional projections of nominals, and syntactic approaches to morphology. In my independent research, I have worked/continue to work on: nominalization paradigms and nominal AS in Korean, information structure effects on island extraction, differential case marking in nominals, and the consequences of timing with respect to syntactic vs. post-syntactic head movement operations.

Prior to joining UC Santa Cruz, I studied linguistics, Korean language, and studio art at New York University (NYU). Outside of work, I enjoy listening to music, reading novels, drawing, crocheting, and playing world-building and life simulation video games.