Empirical foundations of syntax; corpus and experimental studies of variation in English grammar; cognitive architectures of grammar; the dynamics of probabilistic grammar; linguistic typology; Bantu morphosyntax; lexical-functional grammar
Elected 2015
Historical linguistics; languages of the Caucasus; morphology
Sociolinguistics; language change in multilingual urban centres, adolescent language, language & education, syntactic & discourse variation, syntax of spoken English.
Historical and comparative grammar of Greek, Latin, and other ancient Indo-European languages; variationist linguistics of Ancient Greek (sociolects, dialects, literary registers); linguistic aspects of the cultural history of classical antiquity
