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Research
My general research goal is to contribute to the development of a theory of
grammars that can be directly embedded within a theory of communication and
language processing. A number of my recent papers can be downloaded HERE. My recent research has been concerned
with:
Processing Accounts for Island Constraints: Together with a number of
students
and colleagues, I've been conducting experimental research
showing that many island effects discussed in the literature
can be explained in terms of independently motivated aspects
of human sentence processing.
Construction
Grammar: theory and analysis. I've been developing an approach to grammar
that is highly convergent with the Construction Grammar
framework developed by Paul Kay, Chuck Fillmore (both at UC Berkeley),
and numerous colleagues.
HPSG (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar). I've been working on various
grammatical problems in English and other languages.
French Grammar. I've
collaborated with a number of colleagues to develop accounts of various
syntactic and semantic problems in the grammar of French, including `clitic'
morphology, complex predicates, negation, complementation, binding, negative
polarity items, and relative clause constructions.
LinGO (the International
Linguistic Grammars On-Line Consortium), is developing on-line HPSG
grammars and other open-source, computational resources. In addition, it is
now actively exploring the integration of symbolic and statistical information
in NLP.
Multword Expressions.
We've been trying to develop a theory of words with spaces in them (like
ad hoc), very flexible syntactic idioms (like pull strings), and
the entire range of things in between.
Some of my other research activities are described HERE.
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