about me
I am a general linguist with a primary focus on word-based approaches to inflectional morphology and constraint-based treatments of discontinuous grammatical dependencies.
I have secondary interests in the properties of sound systems and aspects of semantics that interact closely with grammar, along with interests in quantitative and computational models.
My main areal interests fall within Germanic, Finnic and Kartvelian, and my current research explores the use of information theory to measure the complexity of languages from these families.
contact details
Department of Linguistics
University of Cambridge
English Faculty Building
9 West Road
Cambridge, CB3 9DP
recent and forthcoming publications
Feature-based grammar. In R. D. Borsley & K. Börjars (eds.), Nontransformational Syntax. Oxford University Press, 297–324, 2011.
Phrase structure grammar (with I. A. Sag). In M. den Dikken (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax. Cambridge University Press, in press, 2012.
Word and Paradigm Morphology. Oxford University Press, to appear, 2013.
recent and forthcoming presentations
Morphological complexity and isolation. Workshop on Complexity and Isolation, FRIAS, University of Freiburg, 9.11.2011.
The autonomy of morphology. Université Paris Diderot, 31.5.2012.
Construction-based and paradigm-based approaches to word structure (with G. E. Booij). 1st NetWordS Summer School, Dubrovnik, 2.7.2012–6.7.2012
Information-theoretic WP. 1st American International Morphology Meeting, Amherst, MA, 21.9.2012.