Teaching
I teach syntax, as well as topics in morphology, semantics/pragmatics, and argument structure; typology; variation in English dialects; and topics in Chinese linguistics.
Current teaching
Linguist 4LC3/COGSCIL 6LC3 Advanced Syntax and its Interfaces
Linguist 2SY3 Syntax
Other teaching, McMaster
Linguist 4LX3 Structure of X (Structure of Chinese)
Linguist 1Z03 Structure of English
Previous teaching, Georgetown
Ling 736 Topics in Morphosyntax: Nominalizations (with Ruth Kramer)
Ling 725 Topics in the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Verb Meaning and Event Structure
Ling 521/721 The Syntax and Semantics of Verbs (with Paul Portner)
ICOS 710 Core Course in Cognitive Science and ICOS 712 Cognitive Science seminar (with Elissa Newport)
Ling 528 Generative Syntax II
Ling 428 Argument Structure
Ling 427 Generative Syntax I
Ling 421 Morphology
Ling 224 Grammatical Analysis
Ling 202 Research-based Undergraduate Linguistics Experience (RULE)
Ling 001 Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Previous teaching, UPenn
Ling 653 Topics in the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Causation
Ling 653 Topics in the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Building and Interpreting Event Structure
Ling 650 Topics in Natural Language Syntax: Syntactic variation
Ling 406 Argument Structure
Ling 245 Patterns in Language
Ling 242 Construct a Language
Ling 145 Language in China
Ling 056 Language in Context: East meets West
Ling 054 Bilingualism in History