General research interests:

Syntactic theory (Minimalism) and the syntactic interfaces (morphology, semantics, pragmatics); syntactic change

Current:

theoretical work: agreement and Case, raising and control, silent categories, tense, aspect, predication, V-movement, left periphery.

language interests: Romanian (synchronic and diachronic aspects), English, Northern Iroquoian languages (Onondaga), Nguni (Ndebele)

Other:

theoretical work : checking theory and chains, focus and wh-constructions, object shift, verb second.

language interests: Old English, Icelandic and Mainland Scandinavian, the Balkan Sprachbund, Romance, Dakota (Siouan)