Research Interests

Cliticisation.
Inflectional Morphology.
Morphological Theory.
Paradigm-Function Morphology.
Creole Morphology.
Language Contact, Variation and Change.  

Research Lines

1. Clitic Systems and Morphology

• Non-canonical clitics: English Auxiliaries and Portuguese Pronouns;
• The morphology of clitics (within Paradigm Function Morphology);
• The morphology-syntax interface of clitic systems (within Lexical Functional Grammar); 
• The effect of morphosyntactic conditioning on clitic phonology (within Stratal Optimality Theory);
• Phrasal affixation and mixed clitics systems.

2- Inflectional Morphology and Verbal Paradigms

• The autonomy of morphology and the nature of morphomes; 
• The complexity of verbal paradigms using both experimental and quantitative methods;
• Conjugation classes and non-productive alternations in creole languages. 
• The presence of morphomes in creoles.

• The development of morphology in creole languages; 
• The nature of reduplication; 
• Word-formation; 
• Verbal inflection, conjugation classes and allomorphy. 

• The grammar of Barranquenho; 
• Afro-Portuguese in 17th century Vilancicos de Negro.
• Loanverbs and verbal inflection.
• Matter/Pattern borrowing.

5- Documentation & Corpora 

• A searchable database of 17th century Vilancicos de Negro (ongoing);
• An annotated corpus of spoken Guiné Bissau Kriyol (ongoing).