I graduated in 1993, with a double major in math and physics, and before there was even a linguistics major or minor. From there I went to the Linguistics & Philosophy department MIT to get a Ph.D. in Linguistics, graduating in 1998, and then from there I joined the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University, where I was a postdoctoral fellow for two years. In Fall 2000, I joined the Linguistics faculty at Boston University in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures, and that's where I am now.

My Ph.D. thesis was about the syntax and semantics of questions, primarily in wh-in-situ languages, and more specifically focused on the properties of Japanese and Sinhala. To the extent that I've specialized in something, it is probably the syntax/semantics interface, and the semantics of questions. I've also done some work in the acquisition of syntax, so that's probably a third specialization.

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