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Academic Staff

	Klaus Abels Lecturer in Syntax k.abels@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4061	Research: Syntactic theory; universal aspects of word and morpheme ordering; representational and computational properties of syntax and the relation between them;
	Richard Breheny Reader in Linguistics r.breheny@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4039	Research: Semantics, pragmatics, the development of semantic and communicative competence, psycholinguistics (experimental pragmatics), philosophy of psychology and linguistics.
	Robyn Carston Professor of Linguistics robyn.carston@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4037	Research: Pragmatics, semantics, non-literal uses of language, tropes and imagery, cognitive processing, cognitive architecture, philosophy of language, communication and interpretation, theory of mind and metarepresentation.
	Judit Druks Senior Lecturer j.druks@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4261	Research: Semantic, syntactic and morphological impairments in aphasia and dementia: syntactic comprehension deficits in aphasia, impairments of grammatical morphemes and prepositions in aphasia, acquired dyslexia and noun-verb differences in different populations.
	John Harris Professor of Linguistics john.harris@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4042	Research: Phonological theory; phonetics-phonology interface; phonological disorder; variation and change in English.
	Nathan Klinedinst Lecturer in Pragmatics nathank@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4062	Research: Meaning and communication in natural language, as a part of the cognitive sciences.
	Ad Neeleman Professor of Linguistics a.neeleman@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4045	Research: Syntactic theory; the interaction between syntax and other linguistic modules; the flexibility of syntactic structures.
	Andrew Nevins Reader a.nevins@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4278	Research: Phonological and Morphological Theory; Improved Empirical Foundations of Linguistic Data Collection. Recent Research Includes: Whistled Languages, Conjunct Agreement, Reduplication, Ergativity, Diminutive Formation, Clitic Restrictions.
	Nausicaa Pouscoulous Lecturer in Pragmatics n.pouscoulous@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4073	Research: Theoretical and experimental pragmatics, semantics, the development of pragmatic and communicative competence, language acquisition, philosophy of language.
	Kate Scott Teaching Fellow in Pragmatics k.scott@ucl.ac.uk Email only	Research: Pragmatics, abbreviated registers, Interpretation of pronouns.
	Andrea Santi Lecturer in Neurolinguistics a.santi@ucl.ac.uk + 44(0) 20 7679 4017	Research: Neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic studies of syntactic processing with an emphasis on syntactic dependencies; neurocognition of semantic memory and its relation to language.
	Kriszta Szendroi Lecturer k.szendroi@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4063	Research: Syntax and its interfaces, particularly topic and focus, acquisition of syntax and semantics; language processing
	Hans van de Koot Head of Research Department, Senior Lecturer h.v.d.koot@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4049	Research: Syntax; dependencies; the relation between syntax and syntax-external systems (argument structure; information structure); the relation between competence and performance.

Researchers

	Dirk Bury Honorary Research Associate	Research: Syntax, theories of phrase structure, syntax of Welsh and other verb-initial languages, language change
	Nino Grillo Honorary Research Associate	Research: Processing and representation of syntax, event structure and the availability of passivization in the nominal and verbal domain, attachment preferences and universality of parsing principles, language acquisition and breakdown.
	Alison Hall Postdoctoral Research Fellow a.hall@ucl.ac.uk Email only	Research: Pragmatics, philosophy of language, semantics, in particular the semantics-pragmatics distinction, pragmatic enrichment and lexical pragmatics.
	Luisa Marti Honorary Research Fellow	Research: Meaning and communication in natural language, as a part of the cognitive sciences.
	Matthew Reeve Teaching Fellow m.reeve@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Syntactic theory; the syntax of clefts and other copular sentences; the relation between syntax and information structure; rightward 'movement' phenomena; the syntax of Slavonic and Celtic languages
	Cilene Rodrigues Honorary Research Fellow cilene.rodrigues@ucl.ac.uk + 00 44 (0) 20 7679 4048	Research: Romance linguistics, dialectal variation. Specialization: morpho-syntactic variation: Number & gender agreement and null subjects.
	Paula Rubio Fernandez Postdoctoral Researcher	Research: Theoretical and experimental pragmatics, psycholinguistics, social cognition and communication, figurative language, word processing.
	Mikako Sato Research Associate mikako.sato@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Psycholinguistics (L1/L2 development and processing; automaticity of the sentence processing routines; processing of structural dependencies; the mental lexicon); Language acquisition, especially in relation to conceptualisation, categorisation and the interface between language and perception; Bilingualism.
	Renita Silva Research Associate renita.silva@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Psycholinguistics, Language Processing (Syntactic and Morphological), Language Acquisition, L2 Processing and Acquisition. Current research: antecedent priming in sentences with neutral scrambling.

Emeriti

	Michael Brody Emeritus Professor of Linguistics m.brody@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Syntactic theory (in the principles and parameters and the minimalist frameworks); the development of elegant syntax in which apart from a near trivial core that specifies possible representations, standard functions of syntax are reassigned to interpretive components.
	Richard Hudson Emeritus Professor of Linguistics r.hudson@ling.ucl.ac.uk	Research: His main area of research is Word Grammar, which embraces all of language (syntax, morphology, semantics and maybe even phonology) and integrates it with general cognition. It has implications for theories of social variation, the psychology of language processing, acquisition (i.e. learning) and even language teaching. He is interested in developing all these areas of theory, but even more interested in applying the theory to description. He also has a strong non-research interest in disseminating linguistics through the schools.
	Neil Smith Emeritus Professor of Linguistics + 44 (0)20 7679 4021 Email: n.smith@ucl.ac.uk or smthnv@gmail.com	Research: Language acquisition and psycholinguistics more generally; the Savant Syndrome; general Linguistic theory and its philosophical implications; pragmatics; Chomsky's linguistic and political thought.
	Deirdre Wilson Emeritus Professor of Linguistics + 44 (0)20 7679 4021 deirdre.wilson@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Pragmatics, semantics, style, poetics, philosophy of language.
	Moira Yip Emeritus Professor of Linguistics Email: m.yip@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 0684 (x30684)	Research: Phonology, Optimality Theory, tone, morphophonology, Chinese linguistics.

Research Students

	Hui Cao Research Student hui.cao@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Syntax and interfaces of quantification and indefinites, Chinese syntax
	Natalia Cichosz Research Student n.cichosz@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Argument structure and case assignment in dative experiencer contructions.
	Harris Constantinou Research Student h.constantinou@ucl.ac.uk	Research: The cross-linguistic distribution of Intensifiers and Reflexives
	Matthew Gotham Research Student m.gotham@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Lexical semantics, in particular the nature of word-world relations.
	Felicity Deamer Research Student f.deamer@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Figurative language processing and lexical pragmatics.
	Thiago Galery Research Student t.galery@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Linguistic underdeterminacy and the semantics/pragmatics distinction
	Claire Grant Research Student claire.c.grant@ucl.ac.uk	Research: The development of morphology and syntax in child English.
	Sam Green Research Student sam.green.10@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Phonological development in infants, and language acquisition in general; phonetics; corpora (use and creation); psycholinguistics; models and methods of learning.
	Jiri Kaspar Research Student jiri.kaspar.10@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Syntactic theory; syntax-morphology interface; homophonous functional categories; left periphery; tag and echo questions; restrictions on scrambling.
	Ya-Fang Lu Research Student ya-fang.lu.10@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Tone processing in Mandarin-speaking children with autism
	Diana Mazzarella Research Student diana.mazzarella.11@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Semantic underdeterminancy, lexical pragmatics and figurative uses of language.
	Isabelle Needham-Didsbury Research Student isabelle.needham-didsbury.10@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Figurative language processing, in particular the role of metaphor in psychotherapy
	Neil Parr Research Student n.parr@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Linguistic pragmatics and language acquisition, with a focus on the role of pragmatic bootstrapping in the acquisition of the English verb phrase.
	Joy Philip Research Student j.philip@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Linkers, morphosyntactic marking of grammatical dependencies, (dis)harmonic word order, syntactic typology
	Anna Pollard Research Student a.pollard@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Speaker-Addressee interaction and Relevance Theory.
	Thanasis Soultatis Research Student athanasios.soultatis.11@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Syllable structure and repair strategies in modern Greek dialects.
	Misako Tanaka Research Student misako.tanaka.10@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Syntax-semantics interface; scope freezing and the contrast between covert and overt scope shift.
	Kevin Tang Research Student kevin.tang.10@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Investigation of naturalistic "Slips of the Ear" using statistical and computational modelling, particularly with English and Chinese languages; Corpus collection and compilation; Constrain models of diachrony with synchronic data; Psycholinguistics; Speech (mis)perception; Speech segmentation; Phonetics and Phonology.
	Ye Tian Research Student ye.tian.09@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Experimental pragmatics, especially negation processing and quantifiers in natural languages.
	Elena Titov Research Student e.titov@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Focus and syntactic structure.
	Catalina Urquiza Arribas Research Student catalina.arribas.10@ucl.ac.uk	Research:
	Maria Varkanitsa Research Student maria.varkanitsa.09@ucl.ac.uk	Research Interests: Syntactic and morphological impairments in the language of Greek-speaking patients with aphasia.
	Beata Zacharska Research Student beata.zacharska@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Definiteness and Reference
	Xiaobei Zheng Research Student xiaobei.zheng.10@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Common ground; theory of mind.