Areas of Specialty:
- Linguistics
- Morphosyntactic Theory
- Inflectional Morphology
- Breton, Sanskrit, Pali
Selected Publications:
- To appear (with Farrell Ackerman). "Paradigms and periphrastic expression: A study in realization-based lexicalism," in Andrew Spencer & Louisa Sadler (eds.), Projecting Morphology, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
- (with Raphael Finkel). "Generating Hebrew verb morphology by default inheritance hierarchies," in M. Rosner & S. Wintner (eds.), Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Proceedings of the Workshop, pp.9-18. Philadelphia: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2002.
- "Morphological and syntactic paradigms: Arguments for a theory of paradigm linkage," in Geert Booij & Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 2001, pp.147-180. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002.
- "Default Inheritance Hierarchies and the Evolution of Inflectional Classes," in Laurel Brinton (ed.), Proceedings of the XIVth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, pp.293-307. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001.
- Inflectional Morphology: A Theory of Paradigm Structure. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Current Projects:
- A realizational theory of heteroclite inflection; Tuggle Research Professorship, University of Kentucky Department of English, 2002.
- A realizational theory of periphrastic inflection. (Joint research with Farrell Ackerman, UCSD.)
- Development and refinement of KATR, a set-based formal language for the representation of default inheritance hierarchies. (Joint research with Raphael Finkel, Department of Computer Science.)
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