My main teaching focus is syntax. I currently provide lectures and tutorials to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Oxford, having previously taught at the University of Manchester. I also teach General Linguistics at the undergraduate level. Other courses/subjects I have taught in the past include Tools for Language Description and Documentation, Interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar, Morphology, Prosody, and Information Structure.

I have supervised work on Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Wenzhounese), Croatian, English (including Old English and Colloquial Singaporean English), German, Hindi/Urdu, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Kaqchikel, Portuguese (Brazilian and European), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, and Welsh.

I am proud to have been shortlisted three times in the category Most Acclaimed Lecturer (Humanities) at the Oxford University Students Union Student-led Teaching Awards, and to have won the award in 2014.

I am Tutorial Fellow in Linguistics at Somerville College, which admits for the following courses:

  • Modern Languages and Linguistics (French and Linguistics, German and Linguistics, Italian and Linguistics, Russian and Linguistics, Spanish and Linguistics, Beginners' Italian and Linguistics)
  • Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics (Psychology and Linguistics, Philosophy and Linguistics).

    • My current teaching is listed below. University of Oxford students should see the relevant pages on the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics' Canvas site.

    Convenor

    FHS

    Paper XII/B2: Syntax

    Lectures

    Prelims

    Paper X/Introduction to Linguistics: Grammatical Analysis

    FHS

    Paper XII/B2: Syntax

    Postgraduate

    Syntax and Information Structure

    Tutorials and Classes

    Prelims

    Paper VIII/Introduction to Linguistics: General Linguistics
    Paper X/Introduction to Linguistics: Grammatical Analysis

    FHS

    Paper XII/B2: Syntax
    Paper A: General Linguistics

    Supervision

    FHS

    Linguistics projects, including The Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics winner Copular Constructions in Colloquial Singaporean English by Alvin Tan
    Linguistics theses

    Postgraduate

    Masters' Option B: Syntax
    MPhil theses
    DPhil students:
    • Amanda THOMAS (2021) Divergence and Mismatches in Portuguese Morphology and Syntax
    • Chen XIE The Syntax–Phonology Interface in Wenzhounese: an LFG perspective
    • Toby LOWTHER Developing LFG lexicalist analysis of syntactic constraints on bilingual code-switched utterances
    • Frances DOWLE Agreement in Welsh: syntax and its interfaces (co-supervised with David Willis)