Lotus Goldberg

I am a theoretical syntactician specializing in modern generative syntax. I studied theoretical linguistics as an undergraduate (graduating with honors) and MA student at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and then completed my PhD in Linguistics at McGill University. My research involves particularly ellipsis and other null anaphora constructions, with a strong empirical focus, and more recently has expanded to include corpus construction for theoretical linguistic analysis. A major current project of my Syntax Research Lab is the Brandeis-Simmons Corpus of English VP Ellipsis, which aims to create a large database of VP Ellipsis instances from mostly natural English speech, with detailed syntactic annotation.