Collaborations

Cambridge Group for Endangered Languages and Cultures

Since January 2010 I have been a co-founding member of the Cambridge Group for Endangered Languages and Cultures (CELC). The group brings together linguists and anthropologists pursuing an interdisciplinary approach to the theory, methodology and practice of endangered language and culture documentation.

E-MELD

Since 2005 I have been Advisor to E-MELD (Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data), a team moderated by the Linguist List, who work on best practice in the preservation of endangered languages data and documentation, and develop the infrastructure for effective collaboration between electronic archives. I have presented at two E-MELD workshops (2005 and 2007) and participated in collaborative exchange visits between the E-MELD team and the Surrey Morphology Group, funded by the US NSF (within the NSF-ESRC programme 'Special Activity in the Area of e-Science').

GOLD

Since 2006 I have been a contributor to GOLD (General Ontology for Linguistic Description), created as part of the E-MELD Project (NSF #0094934) by Scott Farrar, Terence D. Langendoen and Will Lewis, and further developed under consultation with the Surrey Morphology Group (NSF #0633770). I have contributed to the current GOLD ontology entries for morphosyntactic features and provided top-level concept definitions in the areas of tense and aspect (this work was funded by the NSF Polar Programs Grant Supplement to the DATA project - 'Dena'ina Archiving, Training, and Access' - awarded to the Linguist List).

Canonical Typology

My current research project involves constructing a theory of syntactic government based on a canonical approach, a method of linguistic analysis pioneered in the Surrey Morphology Group which is being applied to an increasing number of phenomena - see the SMG's Canonical Typology bibliography. In January 2009 I was a co-convener, together with Dunstan Brown and Marina Chumakina of the SMG, of a two-day international seminar 'Creating Infrastructure for Canonical Typology', which addressed the issues relevant for the theory and practice of the Canonical Typology approach - see the SMG's Canonical Typology website. Click here to see pictures from the seminar.

South-East Seminar Series

Since 2004 I have been the organiser of the South-East Seminar Series convened by Prof. Greville Corbett at the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey. The series consists of one-day Morphology Meetings, where experts are invited to give tutorials on a descriptive or theoretical topic related to an ongoing project within the SMG, and usually additional presentations are elicited from researchers in the South-East of the UK. I have organised Meetings involving the following speakers (in the order of their seminars): Prof. Gerald Gazdar (Sussex), Dr James Blevins (Cambridge), Prof. Östen Dahl (Stockholm), Prof. Miriam Butt (Konstanz), Dr Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw), Prof. Alice Harris (SUNY Stony Brook), Prof. Helen Aristar Dry (Michigan), Dr Leora Bar-El (SOAS), Prof. Greg Stump (Kentucky), Prof. Pier Marco Bertinetto (Pisa), Prof. Peter Sells (SOAS), and Dr Olivier Bonami (Paris-Sorbonne & Paris 7).

ISO

I made substantial contribution to the official UK comments on drafts of ISO 24613 (Lexical Markup Framework) regarding morphosyntactic annotation, created under ISO Technical Committee 37, Sub-Committee 4.