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Biography	See my : Biography Page
Research Interests	My research centers mainly on syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the morphology-syntax interface. I work mainly within Lexical Functional Grammar, but am also interested in HPSG, Construction Grammar and Paradigm Function Morphology. I am particularly interested in Arabic and the Celtic languages (mainly Welsh), and have also done quite a lot of collaborative work with Rachel Nordlinger (Melbourne) on various topics in the syntax and morphology of Australian Aboriginal Languages. I have recently worked on the expression of tense, aspect and mood on nominals; on agreement in NP coordination; on implementing a Welsh grammar; on apposition and incorporation in Australian Aboriginal Languages; on negation and on the adjectival construct (in Welsh and Arabic). Previously, I have worked on argument structure and the syntax-lexical semantics interface, and in various areas of Computational Linguistics, including Machine Translation.
Grants	TB updated 2004-2007: "Verb-initial grammars: a multilingual/parallel perspective" (with Mary Dalrymple, University of Essex). Economic and Social Research Council, UK. 2004-2006: "Noun phrase agreement and coordination" (with Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford). Arts and Humanities Research Board, UK. 2007-2009: "Numerally Quantified NPs in Welsh: Syntax and Semantics". Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
Publications	Papers and publications
Teaching	Information about My teaching 2011-2012 Information about Posssible Dissertation Topics 2011-12 Information for PhD Students Information about Current and Past PhD Students
Events	Annual Language and Computation Day, 8 October 2010 Arabic Linguistics Workshop meets every two weeks. Language and Computation Workshop meets weekly throughout the year. Celtic Linguistics Conferences happen about every three years. Advanced Core Training in Linguistics meets on Fridays in London (for PhD students)
Information	The Essex Arabic Research Gateway Conventions for interlinear glosses: the Leipzig Glossing Rules The Linguist List (http://www.linguistlist.org) provides a wealth of on-line information on language and linguistics. The Stanford Linguistics Meta-Index (http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/links/linguistics.html) Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com) is a reference work containing information about the languages of the world. Glottopedia (http://www.glottopedia.org) is an on-line encyclopedia of linguistics, continuously being updated.