• The role of inflectional paradigms in the definition of grammars
• Deponency and inflectional semantics
• Inflection classes and principal parts
• DATR, KATR, and LATR (formal languages for the representation of default inheritance hierarchies) and their use in morphological analysis and generation
• The morphosyntax of Shughni (Iranian; Tajikistan)

Areas of interest:

• Morphological theory (focus on inferential-realizational approaches to inflection)
• Computational approaches to morphological analysis and generation
• The interface of morphology with syntax and semantics
• Historical linguistics (focus on morphological change)
• Indo-Iranian linguistics (focus on early Indic and Southeastern Iranian)
• Celtic linguistics (focus on Breton)
• Language endangerment

Courses taught at UK:

• Introduction to Linguistics I
• Language and Society: Endangered Languages
• Language and Society: Writing and Writing Systems
• Morphology
• Modern English Grammar
• Grammatical Analysis
• Historical Linguistics
• Sanskrit I and II
• Special Topics Seminar: Principles of English Morphology
• Special Topics Seminar: Current Theories of Inflectional Morphology
• Graduate Seminar: Historical Syntax
• Graduate Seminar: Inflectional Categories

• To appear. "Interactions between defectiveness and syncretism", Defective paradigms: Missing forms and what they tell us, ed. by Matthew Baerman, Greville Corbett & Dunstan Brown.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2009 (with Raphael Finkel). "Principal parts and degrees of paradigmatic transparency", Analogy in Grammar: Form and Acquisition, ed. by James P. Blevins and Juliette Blevins, pp.13-53. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2007. "A noncanonical pattern of deponency and its theoretical implications", in Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown, & Andrew Hippisley (eds.), Deponency and Morphological Mismatches: Proceedings of the British Academy 145, 71-95. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2007 (with Raphael Finkel). "A default inheritance hierarchy for computing Hebrew verb morphology", Literary and Linguistic Computing.22.2, 117-136.
• 2007 (with Tom Stewart). "Paradigm Function Morphology and the morphology/syntax interface", in Gillian Ramchand & Charles Reiss (eds.), The Oxford handbook of linguistic interfaces, pp. 383-421. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2007 (with Raphael Finkel). "Principal parts and morphological typology", Morphology 17, 39-75.
• 2006. "Heteroclisis and paradigm linkage", Language 82, 279-322.
• 2005. "Delineating the boundary between inflection-class marking and derivational marking:  The case of Sanskrit -aya", in Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer & Franz Rainer (eds.), pp.293-309. Morphology and its Demarcations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 2005b. "Referrals and morphomes in Sora verb inflection", in G. Booij and J. van Marle, eds., Yearbook of Morphology 2005 (Springer), 227-251.
• 2004 (with Farrell Ackerman). "Paradigms and periphrastic expression: A study in realization-based lexicalism", in Louisa Sadler & Andrew Spencer (eds.), Projecting Morphology, pp.111-157. CSLI Publications.
• 2002 (with Raphael Finkel). "Generating Hebrew verb morphology by default inheritance hierarchies", in M. Rosner and S. Wintner, eds., Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Proceedings of the Workshop, pp.9-18.  Philadelphia: Association for Computational Linguistics.
• 2002. "Morphological and syntactic paradigms: Arguments for a theory of paradigm linkage," in Geert Booij & Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 2001, pp.147-180. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
• 2001. "Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes," in Laurel Brinton (ed.), Proceedings of the XIVth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, pp.293-307. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 2001. Inflectional morphology: A theory of paradigm structure. Cambridge University Press.

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