BA (Hons) (Australian National University), MA (UCLA), PhD (Stanford)
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Specialization:
Morphosyntax (esp. case and agreement phenomena, argument structure, causative and argument structure altering operations), lexical semantics, tonal phenomena. Languages: Basque, Australian languages, Chinese languages.
Select Publications:
Complex predicates in Basque. In press. In: N. Delbecque and B. Cornillie (eds). The construction of Meaning and the Meaning of Constructions: Data-based approaches to transitivity, motion and causation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
On the special status of instrumentals. 2004. (with Mark Donohue). In: Tracy Holloway-King and Miriam Butt (eds) Proceedings of LFG04. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Four-place predicates in Basque. 2003. In: Proceedings of 39th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
On the importance of perceptual salience in tonology. 1999. In: Proceedings of the Tenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Vol 1 Los Angeles: USC Press. pp. 1-16.
Fore case marking. 1998. (with Mark Donohue). In: Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 28 (1-2): 69-98.