| Position in department | Research Director |
| Staff position | Professor [LS] |
| E-mail | louisa (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk) |
| Telephone | 2888 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number) |
| Fax | 2198 |
| Room | 4.332 |
| Office hours | See http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~louisa/teaching.html for current office hours. |
| Biography | I studied French (African and Asian Studies) at Sussex and taught English in Algeria before coming to Essex for an MA and PhD in theoretical linguistics. My doctoral thesis was on Welsh and Government-Binding theory; it was published by Croom Helm in 1987. I taught for a short period at the University of East Anglia before returning to Essex in 1986. Since then I have been involved in a number of large research projects in the Department, first in computational linguistics and machine translation and more recently projects using Lexical Functional Grammar. Currently, my main research interests are syntactic theory (LFG and HPSG), particularly in relation to the interfaces to morphology and semantics, and the grammatical description of Welsh and Arabic. |
| Website | http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~louisa/ |
| Qualifications | BA Sussex, MA Essex, PhD Essex. |
| Current research | See privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~louisa/research.html for Personal Research Page. |
| Research interests | See privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~louisa/research.html for Personal Research Page. Interests include:
Syntactic Theory [LFG/HPSG]
Description of Arabic
Description of Welsh and other Celtic Languages
Morphology-Syntax and Syntax-Semantics interfaces
Grammar Development using XLE/XFST
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| Teaching responsibilities | LG105-4-FY Foundations of Linguistics [Syntax Segment] (weeks 16-20)
LG476-6-AU - Semantics
LG476-7-AU - Semantics
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| Publications | see
privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~louisa/newpapers/index.html |
| Additional information | Arabic Syntax Group
Syntax Research Group
Language & Computation Group
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