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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:
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: SyntaxLectures
Prelims
Paper X/Introduction to Linguistics: Grammatical AnalysisFHS
Paper XII/B2: SyntaxPostgraduate
Syntax and Information StructureTutorials and Classes
Prelims
Paper VIII/Introduction to Linguistics: General LinguisticsPaper X/Introduction to Linguistics: Grammatical Analysis
FHS
Paper XII/B2: SyntaxPaper 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 TanLinguistics theses
Postgraduate
Masters' Option B: SyntaxMPhil 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)