Teaching

Supervisees

Current Supervisees

    • 2018–
    • Amir Bin Mustaffa (co-supervision with Caroline Heycock), PhD on the syntax of clefts and copular constructions in Malay.
    • 2018–
    • Lisa Gotthard (co-supervision with Bettelou Los and Rhona Alcorn), PhD on corpus-based analyses of historical Scots syntax.
    • 2018–
    • Ivo Youmerski (co-supervision with Nikolas Gisborne), PhD on corpus-based analysis of the history of relative clauses and related constructions in South Slavic.
    • 2017–
    • Yu-hui Liao (co-supervision with Chris Cummins and Vicky Chondrogianni), PhD on motion event descriptions in English/Mandarin and French/Mandarin bilinguals.
    • 2017–
    • Anna Katarina Page (co-supervision with Nikolas Gisborne), PhD on causative verbs and abstract objects.
    • 2017–
    • Tom Stephen (co-supervision with Bryan Pickel), PhD on clause-embedding predicates.
    • 2017–
    • Takanobu Nakamura (co-supervision with Caroline Heycock, Bryan Pickel, and Wataru Uegaki), PhD on quantification in Japanese.

Past Supervisees (all University of Edinburgh unless otherwise stated)

  • PhD
  • MSc by Research
    • 2016–17
    • Ivo Youmerski, Syntactic Change: Sources of Icelandic Relative Specifiers (co-supervised with Nikolas Gisborne and Bettelou Los).
    • 2014–16
    • Steve Rapaport, Prosodic shift and loss of case in Germanic, Romance and Hellenic languages (co-supervised with Heinz Giegerich).
    • 2014–15
    • E Jamieson, An investigation of verb raising in the Shetland dialect of Scots (co-supervision with Caroline Heycock).
    • 2010–11
    • Alexander Beaven, Ditransitives, purpose clauses, and control.
  • Qualifying papers
  • Taught Masters dissertations
    • 2019
    • Gerasimos Georgopoulos, MSc dissertation on pseudocoordination in Greek, co-supervised with Caroline Heycock.
    • 2019
    • Aoi Kawakita, MSc dissertation on scrambling in Japanese, co-supervised with Caroline Heycock.
    • 2019
    • Danil Khristov, Computational modelling of a syntactic theory: Testing Cinque's (1999) theory on adverbial order (co-supervised with Korin Richmond).
    • 2019
    • Annika Simonsen, MSc dissertation on clefts in Faroese and Icelandic, co-supervised with Caroline Heycock.
    • 2019
    • Douglas Smith, Plans subsume events.
    • 2019
    • Adam Woodnutt, Asymmetric across-the-board extraction and multiple-wh questions: An analysis of partial wh-fronting and multiple-wh fronting languages (co-supervised with Caroline Heycock).
    • 2019
    • Nairan Wu, Towards a typology of CSC violations (co-supervised with Caroline Heycock).
    • 2018
    • Sara Amido, Action and Information: Relevance as the Unifying Semantic Component of the Conditional (co-supervised with Nikolas Gisborne).
    • 2018
    • Hugh Black, “Nihil agere quod non prosit”. Restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses in a Latin dependency treebank.
    • 2018
    • Alix Goodwyn, Internally and Externally Motivated Language Change: Through the Lens of Grammaticalization (co-supervised with Laura Arnold).
    • 2018
    • Wenhao Li, Toward a Unified Account of the Ambiguities in the English Present Perfect (co-supervised by Ronnie Cann).
    • 2017
    • Whale Dong, Telicity and Homogeneity: Analysis of Event Structure in Mandarin Bimorphemic Verbs.
    • 2017
    • Ningyuan Ge, The Relation between Relativized Item and Relative se/þe in Old English Relative Clauses.
    • 2017
    • Matt King, MSc dissertation on motion event descriptions in English and Spanish, co-supervised with Nikolas Gisborne.
    • 2017
    • Hugh McLaughlin, The Effects of Task Type on L2 English Article Production by L1 Speakers of Article-less Languages (co-supervised with Wenjia Cai).
    • 2017
    • Anna Katarina Page, Information Structure and the Coordinate Structure Constraint: Two Corpus Studies.
    • 2017
    • Daniel Simon, Stop Provoking Me, I Will Not Be Provoked! How a Small Group of Verbs Upsets the Universe, Almost (co-supervised with Nikolas Gisborne).
    • 2016
    • Shu-yu (Angel) Chen, The development of early where-relatives (co-supervised with Bettelou Los).
    • 2016
    • Ben Aiken, MSc dissertation on mindreading in baseball.
    • 2016
    • Julija Sakalauskaite, Endogenous and exogenous influence on the which.
    • 2013–14
    • Christopher Wildman, Learning biases, language and evolution (University of Ottawa, co-supervised with Ian MacKay).
    • 2012–13
    • Nova Starr, On “her” case: Absolute constructions and default case in the history of English (University of Ottawa).
    • 2012–13
    • Paul Melchin, Nominal projections and pronoun types (University of Ottawa).
    • 2011–12
    • Shayna Gardiner, Middle Egyptian morphotactics (University of Ottawa).
  • Honours dissertations
    • 2018–19
    • Rebecka Elm, The diachronic development of substitutive DO in Old to Middle French and Middle English: A comparative study using parsed corpora (winner of LAGB prize for best undergraduate dissertation).
    • 2018–19
    • Dan North, Argument linking in SBCG.
    • 2018–19
    • Davina Timmins, The compositionality of German separable particle and inseparable prefix verbs: A Distributed Morphology approach.
    • 2018–19
    • Bernardas Jurevicius, A descriptive analysis of Lithuanian relative clauses.
    • 2018–19
    • Pramay Rai, dissertation on grammaticalization of Hindi personal pronouns, co-supervised with Claire Cower.
    • 2015–16
    • Amy King, Honours thesis on unbound -self-forms in Oban English.
    • 2015–16
    • Schuyler Laparle, Getting the gist of just: A collapse of the senses.
    • 2015–16
    • Ivo Youmerski, Honours thesis on failed changes in the history of Icelandic relativization.
    • 2010–11
    • Christopher Bryant, Coverbs in Mandarin: Are they really prepositions?.
    • 2009–10
    • Carol Mitcheson, An investigation into the evidence for hierarchical structure both in the syntactic competence of language-trained animals and in the ability of animals for complex action.
    • 2009–10
    • Amy Woodgate, This is the order which if we use, most people will be happy: the effect of IF-clause linear order and resumption on English grammaticality judgments.
    • 2009–10
    • Alexander Beaven, Control is almost definitely not movement (probably): New evidence from dative intervention.
 
 

Courses

In 2019–20, I am teaching LASC11085 ‘Introduction to syntax’ and LASC10069/LASC11103 ‘Current Issues in semantics and pragmatics’ (with Wataru Uegaki). I am also contributing lectures to LASC08017 ‘LEL2A: Linguistic theory and the structure of English’ (on semantics) and LASC08020 ‘LEL2D: Cross-linguistic variation: limits and theories’ (on syntactic typology).

Past Courses

  • University of Edinburgh (as course organizer)
    • 2016–19
    • LASC11143 ‘Introduction to semantics and pragmatics’
    • 2014–15,
    • LASC10071/LASC11104 ‘Current issues in syntax’
    • 2017–19
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    • 2015–16
    • LASC11090 ‘Introduction to semantics’
  • Recent short courses
  • University of Ottawa
    • 2013–14
    • LIN2310 ‘Introduction to syntax’.
    • 2012–13
    • LIN6917 ‘Syntax II’.
    • 2011–14
    • LIN1310 ‘Introduction to Linguistics 1: From Morpheme to Utterance’ (seven sections).
    • 2011–12
    • LIN7930 ‘Topics in theoretical linguistics: Grammatical architectures’.
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    • Also informal workshops for grad students on LaTeX and R.
  • University of Edinburgh
    • 2009–11
    • Biolinguistics (two sections, MSc level).
    • 2008–9
    • Current Issues in Syntax (co-taught with Peter Ackema and Caroline Heycock, 4th year undergraduate).