Semantics and Pragmatics: generics, adverbs of quantification, focus, speech acts, quantification, modality; computational linguistics: anaphora, evolution of language; philosophy of language: vagueness, common-sense reasoning

Cognitive neuroscience, focusing on two brain systems - the language system and the prefrontal cortex; a functional anatomy of the medial prefrontal cortex; a functional anatomy of the lateral prefrontal cortex; the processing of syntax, semantics, and phonology

First language acquisition; experimental psycholinguistics; semantics/pragmatics in child and adult language; the acquisition of syntax; language impairment

Syntax, in particular syntax of ellipsis; typology; morphology; field linguistics; languages of the Caucasus

Formal semantics; pragmatics; formal and probabilistic semantics and pragmatics; experimental linguistics; dynamic semantics; formal syntax; Slavic and Germanic linguistics

generative grammar; syntax; the lexicon-syntax interface; predication theory; secondary predication and modification; prepositions of proximity; the lexicon-information structure connection