I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University.

 

Until August 2022 I was a Research Associate at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin, and I still function as external consultant on two projects in which I was a co-PI while at ZAS: the DFG project B01 Register and the development of periphrasis in the history of English, a sub-project of the CRC 1412 Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation (together with Artemis Alexiadou) and the joint AHRC-DFG project "Locality and the argument/adjunct distinction: Structure-building vs. structure-enrichment", working together with Rob Truswell in Edinburgh as well as Hedde Zeijlstra and Sandhya Sundaresan in Göttingen.

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I work on:

• theoretical and comparative syntax

• morphology and the syntax-morphology interface

• historical linguistics, especially corpus-based historical syntax 

• the Germanic languages, as well as Tamil (Dravidian)

• computational methods employing electronic corpora and linguistic databases