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I am a professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. I also work with several research stations and labs, which you can find more about here.
My research interests are as follows:
- Syntactic theory
- Language universals and the range of cross-linguistic variation
- Heritage languages and their bearing on linguistic theory
I work on various topics including syntax-prosody interface, long-distance dependencies, ergativity, verb-initial orders. I have done primary work on a variety of languages: languages of the Caucasus, Austronesian, and Mayan languages. My research also includes structural properties of language spoken by unbalanced bilinguals: what is now known as heritage language.