I am leading the
Education First Research Unit which is devoted to L2 acquisition of English and the crossfertilisation between linguistic L2 research and teaching.
Research interests
- Second Language Acquisition
- L2 English
- Typologies of English L2 grammars based on L1 effects
- Learner corpora and data-driven approaches to their investigation
- Natural language syntax and its interfaces with phonology, interpretation and processing
- Long distance dependencies
(questions, relative clauses, topicalisation, focus movement, clitic left dislocation, broad subjects) - Resumption
- Locality and islands
- Focus and topic strategies
- Bare nouns and the syntax of nominals
- Greek, Romance, Semitic
- Linguistic theory and gradience
- Experimental Syntax