Dissertation title: The syntax of silence: Sluicing, islands, and identity in ellipsis.
Advisors: James McCloskey and William Ladusaw.

1997-1998: UiL/OTS, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Fulbright Scholar.
1997: Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Cornell University.
1995: M.A. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz.
1991-1992: Karl-Eberhards-Universität, Tübingen, Germany. DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Scholar.
1991: B.A. summa cum laude, Yale University. Linguistics with Honors. Phi Beta Kappa.