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Recently Funded Projects
| Year | UCL Researcher | Title | Funding Source |
| 2022-2025 | Richard Breheny (PI), Yasu Sudo (Co-I) | IDEAlISM: Interactions between Dynamic Effects and Alternative-Based Inferences in the Study of Meaning | AHRC-DFG |
| 2022-2023 | Robyn Carston | Lexical Innovation: Conceptual Flexibility and Grammatical Constraints | Leverhulme Research Fellowship |
| 2021-2022 | Yasu Sudo, Nathan Klinedinst, Salvador Mascarenhas, Stanislas Dehaene | Language in Reasoning | UCL-Université PSL collaboration grant |
| 2021 | Yasu Sudo | Reconstruction and scope in indexical shift in Uyghur | British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant |
| 2020-2022 | Ad Neeleman (PI) | Complex heads in syntax and morphology (paired with a second Leverhulme grant to Peter Ackema, University of Edinburgh) | Leverhulme Trust |
| 2019-2022 | Richard Breheny (PI), Yasu Sudo (co-I) | Alternative and Implicit Meanings | Leverhulme Trust |
| 2018-2022 | Kriszta Eszter Szendroi (Co-PI), Lily Kahn (Co-PI) | Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish - A joint UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies - Linguistics Research Project | AHRC |
| 2018-2022 | Andrew Nevins (PI), Franc Marusic (CI), Mark De Vos (CI),Jana Willer-Gold (Research Associate) | Agreement Mismatches in Experimental Syntax: from Slavic to Bantu | Leverhulme Trust |
| 2017-18 | Kearsy Cormier (PI), Kate Rowley (CI), Jordan Fenlon (CI) | Language attitudes in the British deaf community: Evidence from the British Sign Language Corpus | Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) |
| 2016-19 | Kearsy Cormier (PI), Adam Schembri (CI), Jordan Fenlon (CI) | A broadly usage-based account of British Sign Language syntax | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| 2016-18 | James White | An EEG study of phonotactic knowledge | British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant |
| 2007-17 | Robyn Carston | Linguistic Agency Project and Meta-representation, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature | University of Oslo |
| 2014-18 | Andrew Nevins | Coordinated Research in the Experimental Morphosyntax of South Slavic Languages (EMSS) | Leverhulme |
| 2016-17 | Yasustada Sudo | On the interaction between morphosyntax and semantics-pragmatics in language acquisition and language loss: the case of temporal inferences | British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant |
| 2013-16 | Alexandra Perovic and Nausicaa Pouscoulous | Metaphor comprehension in Autism Spectrum Disorder & Down syndrome | British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant |
| 2013-15 | Ad Neeleman | The grammar of person | Leverhulme Research Fellowship |
| 2012-15 | Andrea Santi | Parameterizing typicality to study brain systems underlying semantic categories | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2011-14 | Robyn Carston | What Word Meaning Is and What It Isn’t | AHRC |
| 2011-14 | Robyn Carston | Understanding Metaphor: Ad Hoc Concepts and Imagined Worlds | Leverhulme |
| 2009-14 | Robyn Carston | Literature as an Object of Knowledge, directed by Balzan Prize winner, Terence Cave, St John’s College, Oxford | Balzan Interdisciplinary Project |
| 2010-13 | Alexandra Perovic | “Acquisition of Syntactic and Pragmatic Aspects of Control and Binding”: A Comparison between Autistic and Non-autistic Children”, with Dr Vikki Janke, University of Kent | British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant |
| 2008-12 | Richard Breheny | Linguistic Agency - Metarepresentation project | Centre for Research of Mind in Nature, Oslo |
| 2010-12 | Richard Breheny | Co-Investigator, ESRC-funded Experimental Pragmatics | ESRC |
| 2010-12 | Nausicaa Pouscoulous | Do 2.5-year-olds understand presupposition? | ESF mobility grant |
| 2011-12 | Hans van de Koot | Antecedent Priming in Sentences with Neutral Scrambling: Evidence from Dutch and German | AHRC |
| 2011 | Klaus Abels | Linguistic Universals and the Order of Verbs in Germanic | AHRC |
| 2010-11 | Richard Breheny | The role of lexical alternatives in different forms of pragmatic processing | ESF mobility grant |
| 2010-11 | Richard Breheny | Are Presuppositions Accommodated Globally by Default? | ESF mobility grant |
| 2009-11 | Nausicaa Pouscoulous | Early metaphorical abilities | ESF mobility grant |
| 2007-09 | Richard Breheny | Experimental Investigations of Semantic-Pragmatic Inferences | AHRC |
| 2008-09 | Robyn Carston | Pragmatics and Semantic Content | Leverhulme Research Fellowship |
| 2006-09 | Ad Neeleman and Hans van de Koot | A flexible theory of topic and focus movement | AHRC |
| 2003-06 | Robyn Carston | Unified Theory of Lexical Pragmatics | AHRB |
| 2004-06 | Alexandra Perovic | Computational system of language in ASD | Simons Initiative for Autism and the Brain |
| 2004 | Robyn Carston | Three months (September-December 2004) at the Institute of Cognitive Science in Lyon | CNRS |
| 2003-04 | Alexandra Perovic | Computational system of language in ASD | The Anne and Paul Marcus Foundation Autism Consortium |
| Jan-June 2002 | Ad Neeleman | Interfaces in morphology | AHRB |
| 1999-00 | Robyn Carston | What is Said and What is Communicated | Leverhulme Research Fellowship |