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interests:
Principles-and-parameters
based research in syntax and its interfaces with morphology and semantics,
with particular emphasis on:
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the syntactic representation of predication and the processes that
predicates undergo in syntax
- the representation
and distribution of copular elements
- the internal
structure of the noun phrase
- the syntax
of possession
- the syntax
of transitivity alternations and the "light verb" structure
of transitive clauses
- the syntax
of pronouns and agreement
- the syntax
of locative and directional adpositional phrases
- the syntax
and interpretation of questions and question words
- the distribution
of polarity items (including so-called "aggressively non-D-linked"
wh-phrases)
- the syntax
of co-ordination and either/or, both/and
- the syntax
of comparative correlatives
- the locality
of syntactic dependencies (phases, Phase Extension, vacuous movement)
- the comparative
morpho-syntax of Appalachian English (NSF-funded Collaborative Research,
with Judy Bernstein, Christina Tortora, and Raffaella Zanuttini --
September 2006 - August 2008) [to be redirected to the webpage for
the Appalachian English syntax project, please click here]
Languages studied include varieties
of English, West-Germanic languages, Romance languages, Hungarian, Modern
Greek, Amharic, Rotuman, Telugu, Mandarin Chinese, and Thai.
Some recent papers can be accessed
by clicking on "Publications".
Last updated
23 July, 2007
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