Syntactic Universals and Semantic Constraints
Statistical and other Comparative Evidence from the Study of Verbs and Adjectives

(School of Oriental and African Studies, London: click for further details, and for SOAS Library entry)

My active interests fall into three broad areas: (i) tense and aspect, (ii) syntactic/morphological universals with particular reference to the behaviour of adjuncts and (iii) quantifiers.

As well as providing pages on this site outlining my research - and related papers and publications - I summarise differences in my work with other approaches...

Time and Aspect

Adjuncts, Determiners and Linguistic Universals

Extension of the neo-Davidson model to capture aspect and complex events, identifying 'processes' as well as actions. This leads to an attempt to formulate a 'Differential Predicate Calculus'.

(see Time and Aspect work)

Alternative to 'intensional' operators partly making use of actions and processes above. The concept of an adjunct is given a definition.

(see PhD thesis, Innsbruck paper)

Adapted for above: mainly extensional, treating adjuncts separately.

(see PhD thesis)

(see Innsbruck paper)

Semantically-based model, drawing on all of above and awaiting further work on them. I believe a single 'subject-creation' transformation from a subjectless deep structure can capture all the main transformations including movement.