Professor-in-residence, Classics and Indo-European, University of California at Los Angeles, and Victor S Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus, Harvard University
Comparative syntax and syntactic theory; Finnish and the Scandinavian languages; word order; null arguments; interplay of syntax and morphology; the syntax of questions and answers
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