2025. Direct evidentiality in the grammar of English: must have in a London dialect (with Jenny Cheshire and Zoë Adams); English Language and Linguistics. Published online. Available here
2024. Still Changing: Semantic Innovation and Change in Multicultural London English (with Jenny Cheshire and Zoë Adams); Journal of English Linguistics, vol 52 issue 4, pp 299-320. Available here
2024. Using social media to infer the diffusion of an urban contact dialect: A case study of Multicultural London English (with Christian Ilbury and Jack Grieve); Journal of Sociolinguistics, vol 28 issue 3, pp 45-70. Available here
2023. Dutch-Mandarin learners’ on-line use of syntactic cues to anticipate mass vs count interpretations (with Panpan Yao, Hagit Borer, and Linnaea Stockall); Second Language Research, vol 40 issue 4, pp 803-831. Available here
2022. Processing evidence for the grammatical encoding of the mass/count distinction in Mandarin Chinese (with Panpan Yao, Linnaea Stockall and Hagit Borer); Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol 51, pp 341–371. Available online here
2020. The impersonal gets personal: a new pronoun in Multicultural London English, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol. 38:1. Online version
2019. P-D-Drop and Pseudo-incorporation in London English, in Maggie Baird and Jonathan Pesetsky (eds.) Proceedings of NELS 49, vol 2. pre-pulblication draft pdf
2019. Licensing D in classifier languages and "numeral blocking", in Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Julia Pozas Loyo and Violeta Vásquez-Rojas Maldonado (eds.), Definiteness Across Languages (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 99), Berlin: Language Science Press. pre-publication draft pdf
2017. Causal Interrogative Variation in Multicultural and Traditional Varieties of London English, Queen Mary’s OPAL #36 (with James Brookes, Jenny Cheshire, and David Adger). pre-publication draft pdf
2017. Multicultural London English and social and educational policies, Languages, Society and Policy, vol.1 (with Jenny Cheshire and David Adger) pre-publication word doc
2017. Is there Condition C reconstruction? in Andrew Lamont and Katerina Tetzloff (eds.) Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume 1, GLSA UMass Amherst. (with David Adger, Alex Drummond, and Coppe van Urk) pre-publication pdf
2015. Licensing definiteness: A Spanning account of noun phrase interpretation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese; in Newcastle and Northumbria Working Papers in Linguistics, vol 21.1. pre-publication pdf
2015. Spelling out the Noun Phrase: Interpretation, Word Order, and the Problem of ‘Meaningless Movement’ pdf
2021. Analysing grammatical innovation in Multicultural London English. Manchester Forum in Linguistics, April.
2019. Analysing grammatical innovation: Insights from Multicultural London English. Oxford General Linguistic Seminar, November. beamer slides
2019. Causal Interrogative Variation in Multicultural London English (with James Brookes, Jenny Cheshire, and David Adger). LAGB 2019, special workshop on Language Variation. beamer slides
2019. Socio and formal views on grammatical innovations: insights from Multicultural London English. CRISSP Seminar, KU Leuven, July. beamer slides (open with Adobe Acrobat for sound file compatability)
2018. Grammatical Innovations in Multicultural London English; Cambridge University Linguistic Society, May and University of Southampton, October. beamer slides (open with Adobe Acrobat Reader for sound file compatibility)
2017. Multicultural London English: The new non-standard standard; Government Digital Services, September. powerpoint
2016 Deriving Greenberg’s Universal 20 with Numeral Classifier Languages; UCL Movement workshop, November. pdf handout
2021. Exploring the diffusion of Multicultural London English Lexis through Twitter data (with Christian Ilbury and Jack Grieve). NWAV49, University of Texas at Austin, October.
2021. Definite Bare Noun Subjects in English. LAGB Annual Meeting, September. slides
2019. Cross-categorial degree expressions in London English: bare and bares. Workshop on the Occasion of Alex Kalinin’s PhD Defense, QMUL, December. handout
2018. P-D-drop and pseudo-incorporation in London English; NELS 49, Cornell University, October. handout
2017. The impersonal gets personal: a new pronoun in Multicultural London English; LAGB Annual Meeting, September. handout
2017. The impersonal gets personal: a new pronoun in Multicultural London English; poster presentation at GLOW 40, Leiden University, March. poster
2017. Impersonal pronouns and man in Multicultural London English; QMUL Ling Lunch, March. handout
2016. Is there Condition C Reconstruction? (with David Adger, Alex Drummond, and Coppe van Urk); Poster presentation, NELS 47, October. poster
2016. Licensing D in classifier languages: A Mirror-theoretic approach; Definiteness Across Languages, National Autonomous University of Mexico, June. handout
2016. Exploring constraints on causal interrogative variation in Multicultural London English (with James Brookes); QMUL Ling Lunch, January. beamer slides
2015. Licensing subject NPI without head movement; QMUL Head Movement Workshop, November. handout
2014. Licensing Definiteness: A Spanning Account of Noun Phrase Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese; AE-Link 2, December. handout
2014. Modifier Position and DP Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese; Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting, September. handout
2014. Marked Order in the Determiner Phrase; Newcastle Postgraduate Conference, April. beamer slides
2014. Markedness and Focus in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Korean DPs; QMUL DP Workshop, January. handout