Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Near Eastern Studies | Professor, Roshan Persian and Iranian Studies - GIDP | Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP | Professor, Cognitive Science - GIDP | Professor, Linguistics | Associate Research Social Scientist
My research is focused on various syntactic topics within Chomskyan theoretical framework. I have worked extensively on word order and scrambling, the interaction of syntax and discourse (focus and topic), the syntax, semantics and morphology of complex predicate constructions, and complex DPs (including relative clauses), among some other topics. My current research includes control constructions, ellipsis, and the syntax and semantics of complex predicates in various Iranian languages.