Academic interests
The main focus of my work is on using computational and mathematical tools to explore syntax and semantics, and especially apparent mismatches between the two. My recent work has focussed on idioms and other ‘multiword expressions’, and in particular their representation in the lexicon. Most recently, I was a part of the Universal Natural Language Understanding project, which sought to establish a maximally general procedure for connecting Universal Dependencies syntactic parses with semantic representations in Discourse Representation Theory.
I am interested in all areas of grammatical theory (including meta-theory), and in all areas of linguistics more broadly: as well as syntax and semantics, my research has touched on sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics.
Much of my work is based in Lexical Functional Grammar and Glue Semantics, and I am also interested in other well-formalised theories of grammar, especially of the ‘constraint-based’ or ‘model-theoretic’ variety.
Beyond this, I also have an interest in sociolinguistics and language-in-use, and in corpus-based and discourse theoretic tools. Within this domain, I’m most interested in so-called 'social meaning', and especially the interactions of language with gender and sexuality.
Background
I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, where I subsequently held various lectureships before coming to UiO.
Publications
For a detailed publications list and links to my papers, please see my personal website.