Linguistics

Research interests

• morphosyntax and morphosemantics, in particular the issues of valency and transitivity, grammatical relations, argument coding, modelling operations on argument structure
• linguistic typology, with special focus on grammatical features and featural dependencies such as syntactic agreement and government
• descriptive Polish and Slavonic linguistics, in particular topics regarding grammatical voice, impersonal constructions, tense and aspect
• computational implementation of LFG formal grammar, in particular the handling of lexical relatedness, argument alternations, and the semantic annotation of the verbal lexicon

Quick links

• The Features Website (the links open in a new page):
  http://www.grammaticalfeatures.net, mirrored at: http://www.features.surrey.ac.uk

Teaching

• undergraduate: Introduction to Grammatical Analysis, Introduction to Syntax, Introduction to Morphology, Advanced Syntax, Advanced Morphology, Contemporary Syntactic Theory, Structure of Polish, Structure and History of Polish, Linguistic Projects
• postgraduate: Contemporary Syntactic Theory, advanced topics in Syntax and Morphosyntax, Introduction to Lexical-Functional Grammar, Argument Structure and Lexical Mapping Theory, Modelling Argument Alternations, advanced topics in Structure of Polish
• postgraduate research: impersonal constructions in Slavonic, case in Polish and Russian, argument structure and case licensing, copular constructions, non-configurationality

Contact:  ak243 @ cam.ac.uk   or:  anna.kibort @ ling-phil.ox.ac.uk