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 have supervised the following prize-winning work by undergraduate and postgraduate students.
•   Tin Yan Mok, first prize, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain’s Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics 2026 for her submission Cantonese Coverbs do not Belong to a Single Uniform Syntactic Category
•   Frances Dowle, joint winner of the Philological Society’s R. H. Robins Prize 2025 for her submission Neutral forms of be as default forms: The utility of underspecification and blocking in a Welsh morphosyntactic phenomenon, published in Transactions of the Philological Society 124
•   Chen Xie, joint winner of the Philological Society’s R. H. Robins Prize 2025 for his submission Word order variation as differential object marking, published in Transactions of the Philological Society 124
•   Amanda Thomas, runner up, the Philological Society’s R. H. Robins Prize 2020 for her submission Multiple factors in the licensing of null arguments: null objects in Brazilian Portuguese
•   Alvin Tan, joint winner of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain’s Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics 2020 for his submission Copular Constructions in Colloquial Singaporean English

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

Syntax

FHS

Paper XII/B2: Syntax

Syntax and Information Structure

Postgraduate

Syntax and Information Structure

Tutorials and Classes

Prelims

General Linguistics
Syntax

FHS

Paper A: General Linguistics
Paper XII/B2: Syntax

Supervision

FHS

Linguistics projects, including The Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2025 Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics first prize winner Cantonese Coverbs do not Belong to a Single Uniform Syntactic Category by Tin Yan Mok
and 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: