I started the Spoken Syntax
Laboratory at CSLI to provide resources for collaborative work on
syntax using multiple sources of evidence and modern statistical
models.
Linguistic Typology
I am interested in theoretical models of
typological variation of languages. I have served as an Associate Editor
of the journal Linguistic Typology.
Dynamics of Probabilistic Grammar
I am working with other
linguists, psychologists, and computer scientists to develop and test
probabilistic models of how grammar varies in the individual and in
speaker groups across space and time.
Lexical-Functional Grammar
I am one of the original designers and
developers of LFG,
the formal
grammar system which allows flexible, typologically diverse linguistic
description and has been embedded in explicit theoretical models of
exemplar-based syntax, optimality-theoretic syntax, and stochastic
grammar.
