My research focuses on language variation and change and syntax, especially in dialects of Basque and English. I'm currently working mainly on two funded projects. One, based at my former institution, the University of York, is the Northern Englishes project (NEP), a UK Research Council funded project on which I am PI, working with Hazel Richards and Paul Foulkes. A second project, on which I am a collaborator, is the Basque Dialect Grammar (BDG) project (Beatriz Fernandez, PI) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and based in the Basque Country. Both of these projects end in 2013.
Recent talks/handouts:
[2011] The syntax and semantics of be like quotatives (with Eytan Zweig, Daniel Ezra Johnson). GLOW poster.
[2011] Vowel Variation in Manchester: a Dynamic Approach (with Vincent Hughes, Hazel Richards and Paul Foulkes). UKLVC 8.
Downloadable papers:
[to appear] Object movement (A)symmetries in British English Dialects (with Anders Holmberg). Proceedings of WCCFL 29.
[to appear] Experimental materials for Haddican & Holmberg 2011
[to appear] The syntax of be like quotatives (with Eytan Zweig, Daniel Ezra Johnson). Proceedings of WCCFL 29.
[to appear] Constant linguistic effects in the diffusion of be like (with Mercedes Durham, Eytan Zweig, Daniel Ezra Johnson, Zipporah Baker, David Cockeram, Esther Danks, Louise Tyler). Journal of English Linguistics.
[to appear] A continuum of definciency for Basque infinitives. (with George Tsoulas). Submitted to a John Benjamins volume on nominalizations and DPs in Basque edited by Urtzi Etxeberria, Ricardo Etxepare and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria.
[2011] Change in the Syntax and Semantics of be like quotatives. Submitted to an edited volume.
[2010] Theme-goal ditransitives and theme passivisation in British English dialects. Lingua 120, 2424-2443.
[2010] Formalising syntactic variability in contemporary theory: context and issues (with Bernadette Plunkett). Lingua 120, 1057-1061.
[2009] The British Isles. (with J. Stuart-Smith). In Sociolinguistics Around the World: A Handbook. Ed. by M. Ball and N. Muller.
[2009] A note on Basque Participles. International Journal of Basque Linguistics 43, 423-434.
[2008] Mid Vowel Raising and Second Vowel Deletion in Oiartzun Basque. (With P. Foulkes). In Gramatika Jaietan Patxi Goenagaren Omenez, Ed. by X. Artiagoitia and J. Lakarra.
[2007] Euskal perpausaren oinarrizko espez-buru-osagarri hurrenkeraren aldeko argudio batzuk (Some arguments for an underlying spec-head-complement order for the Basque Clause.) In Antisimetriaren Hipotesia vs Buru Parametroa: euskararen hitz hurrenkera ezbaian (ed.) X. Artiagoitia and A. Elordieta. Gasteiz: U. of the Basque Country."
[2007]. On Egin: Do-support in Basque. (Revised version published in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory).
[2007]. Suburbanization and Language Change in Basque. Revised version published in Language in Society.
[2006]. The Structural Deficiency of Verbal Pro-forms. York Papers in Linguistics. (Revised version published in Linguistic Inquiry 36(5))
[2005]. Two Kinds of Restructuring Infinitives in Basque, Proceedings of WCCFL 24 (pre-publication draft).
[2005]. On Egin: Do-Support And Verb Focalization In Central And Western Basque, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Proceedings of PLC 29.
[2005]. Standardization and Language Change in Basque, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Selected papers from NWAV 33.
[2005]. Standardization, Functional Shift and Language Change in Basque, Estudios de Sociolinguistica, 5(2).
[2004]. Affirmation and Weak Islands, Snippets, 9:9-10.
[2004]. Sentence Polarity and Word Order in Basque, The Linguistic Review, 21(2):81-124.
[2004]. Conjunction Meets Negation: A Study in Cross-linguistic Variation (with Anna Szabolcsi) Journal of Semantics, 21(3): 219-249.
[2003]. Dialect Contact in a Southern Basque Town, Language Variation and Change, 15(1):1-35.
[2001]. Basque Functional Heads, Linguistics in the Big Apple Working Papers in Linguisics.
[1997]. PolÌticas de recuperaciÛn ling¸Ìstica en Irlanda (1922-1939) y el PaÌs Vasco (1980-1992), (Book review), Inguruak (Journal of Basque Sociology), 19:196-199.
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