Research

• Verb Initial Order & its correlates
• Binding & Obviation in Minimalism
• Copular Constructions and Predication
• Topic & Focus, and syntactic structure
• Case & Ergativity
• Scrambling & Word Order
• Argument Structure, Aspect, Aktionsarten & Lexical semantics
• Extraction and Anaphora
• Complex Prediates
• The morphology syntax Interface
• Dative shift and morphophonology
• Syntactic theory and Sentence Processing
• Lexical Access
• The structure of DP.
• The acquisition of relative clauses
• Semantic Timing Effects
• Reconstruction
• Reference Types and Anaphora

The syntax & semantics of particular languages:
Modern Irish , English , Spanish , Navajo , Hiaki (Yaqui) , Tohono O'odham , Japanese , Chinese , Russian , Modern Persian , Maori , Mayan Languages and Salishan Languages