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Fields of expertise: English; Syntax; Current research:
Adpositions, expressions of direction and location, and Argument
structure
CASTL: Center
for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics – A Norwegian
Center of Excellence (Research Council of Norway)
Current and Recent Activities (for more information follow Projects and Papers links)
| Spring 2009: Seminar on Space, Tromsø |
| Spring 2008: Seminar on Features, Tromsø |
| January 2008: Fieldwork in Indonesia |
| December 2007: Collaborative research in Hong Kong and Thailand |
| November 2007: Fieldwork and courses in Hyderabad and Delhi, India |
| LSA Summer Institute Course at Stanford, July 1-27 2007: The Physiology of P (Preposition, Postposition, Particle) |
New Version of Spatial P in English Paper (June 2007)
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Conference: The Syntax and Semantics of Measurability, September 17-18, 2007
Past syntax conferences in Tromsø |
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A five-year project investigating expressions of direction and motion. The main focus is on adpositions, cross-linguistically. This ties in with my previous research on Germanic particles and Slavic prefixes.
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A five-year project investigating variation across the Scandinavian dialect continuum. The project is a Nordic Center of Excellence, in collaboration with Århus, Trondheim, Oslo, Reykjavík, Helsinki, and Lund. |
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Gillian Ramchand and I have developed the argument that parametric variation resides in the lexicon by showing how lexical variation can give rise to systematic effects in the semantics |
I argue that all syntactically visible features are similar in having some semantic value; this includes gender. Features with no semantic value whatsoever, such as declension or conjugation class features, are visible only to lexical insertion and not to syntax. This strengthens the case that syntax and semantics are not separate modules. |
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