I am a Professor in the Department of Linguistics. I have appointments in the Cognitive Science Program, The Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), the joint Program in Linguistics and Anthropology, the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS), and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
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. I have published journal articles, book chapters, and one book length monograph. I have also edited/co-edited six books, a special issue on complex predicates for the journal Lingua, and another one on parameters for the journal Linguistic Analysis.
Department of Linguistics, The University of Arizona
Communications Building 106