Projects  

• Valency-decreasing operations in Formosan

• Raising-to-object constructions in Formosan

• The nature of Philippine-type 'voice' and similar systems in non-Austronesian languages

• Variation and change in western Austronesian syntax 

• The Austronesian homeland puzzle and Austronesian higher-order subgrouping, including the primary diaspora of Malayo-Polynesian

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• Austronesian higher-order subgrouping (with a special focus on Malayo-Polynesian). With Kristina Gallego, Jonathan Kuo, and Isaac Stead

• Voice and restructuring in Austronesian languages. With Ileana Paul, Diane Massan, Lisa Travis, Jozina Vander Klok, and Susi Wurmbrand  

• Two types of relativization strategies in Tagalog. With Nozomi Tanaka

• The evolution of syntax in Western Austronesian. With Bradley McDonnell

• L1 transfer effects in the acquisition of English by-phrases. With Stephen Skalicky

• Argument-marking strategies and split intransitivity in Formosan. With Shin Fukuda