About me

Hello! My name is William Johnston. I’m a syntactician, a semanticist, and a fieldworker.

My research focuses on the structure of the verbal and prepositional domains, and I work with speakers of Hmong to describe and analyze their language.

I currently hold a Fonds de recherche du Québec postdoctoral fellowship at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Richard Compton is my supervisor. My PhD is from McGill University, where I was supervised by Jessica Coon and Luis Alonso-Ovalle.

Outside of linguistics, I love cooking, the Minnesota Vikings, and writing.