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I'm a PhD student in Linguistics at University College London. My primary area of interest is generative linguistics, and specifically syntactic and semantic theory. More narrowly still, i'm interested in ellipsis, comparatives, and binding theory.

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What's the difference between counterbleeding, bleeding and feeding?
Dec 7, 2013
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What are the chief advantages & disadvantages of describing sentences with dependency vs. phrase structure trees?
Aug 9, 2013
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Do any languages form plural pronouns by adding a suffix to the singular form?
Aug 10, 2013
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How do English people understand the grammatical cases?
Aug 8, 2013
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Is there a term for a finite verb which cannot be followed by an infinitive verb, in English?
Oct 23, 2013
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What is minimalist about the minimalist program?
Mar 21, 2014
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In which of these sentences is “and” used for coordination?
Jan 25, 2014
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Interchangeable arguments with English copula
Oct 20, 2013
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What's the difference between recursion and embedding?
Nov 10, 2013
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Could anyone give examples of context-sensitive sentences that cannot be generated by context-free rules?
Aug 29, 2013
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