Research
I specialise in theoretical, comparative and historical syntax, with interface, acquisition and contact issues also being a focus of interest. To date, much of my research has centred on the clause structure of the Germanic languages, with the peculiar patterns of variation and change exhibited by Afrikaans forming the heart of my doctoral work, and various aspects of the diachrony of English and other Germanic languages having been a major research focus since the completion of that Ph.D. in 2003. I was previously (2002-2007) the Research Associate on an AHRC-funded project Null subjects and the structure of parametric theory, also involving Ian Roberts, David Willis and Anders Holmberg (University of Newcastle), and then the Senior Research Associate on a further AHRC-funded project (October 2007-May 2011) investigating Structure and Linearization in Disharmonic Word Orders (research team: Ian Roberts and Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge), and Anders Holmberg and Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle). June 2011 saw the start of a 5-year ERC-funded grant, Reconsidering Comparative Syntax working with Ian Roberts (Principal Investigator).
Publications (from Symplectic)
2019
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2019-0017
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2019-0013
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5565/REV/CATJL.219
2018
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18080.bib
2016 (No publication date)
2016
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000043
2015
2014
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/stul.12021

Doi: 10.1162/ling_a_00153
2012 (No publication date)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffr010
2011
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/tlir.2011.011
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.32
2010
Doi: 10.1007/s11049-010-9111-3
2009
2007
2001
1996
2018

Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815853.003.0005

Doi: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1117686
2017 (Published online)
Doi: 10.1075/la.243.04rob
Doi: 10.1075/la.243.05bib
2017

Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/9781107279070.008
2016
Doi: 10.1075/la.234.10bib
2015

2014

2013 (No publication date)
2013
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659203.003.0013
2012
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644933.003.0009
2011
2010
2009

Doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511770784.008

Doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560547.003.0004

2008

Doi: http://doi.org/10.1163/9781848550216_005
2007
2006
Doi: 10.1075/la.97.13bib
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/02190-8
Doi: 10.1075/la.91.08bib
2005
Doi: 10.1075/la.78.06ric
2002
2017
2015
2013
Doi: 10.1515/9781614512431
2012 (No publication date)
2009
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511770784
2008
2016 (No publication date)
2011 (No publication date)
2008
2005
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674305001528
2015
Doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687923.001.0001