I am a Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of York. I recently completed a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania Department
of Linguistics, advised by
Anthony Kroch. I primarily study
syntactic variation and change, particularly with the
use of parsed diachronic corpora. I am interested in information
structure and the interaction between syntax and pragmatics. I am currently attempting to apply parsed
diachronic corpora to a more fine-grained study of information
structure, and potential variation in information structure, both from a
crosslinguistic and a diachronic perspective. I have mostly worked on Germanic languages,
particularly historical German and English, and to a certain extent Icelandic. More about this can be
found under "Research."
