Linguistics and English Language
2006-2009 AHRC grant on "Verb movement in contemporary Faroese: A case study of syntactic variation and change" (with C. Heycock).
2005-2007 British Academy Research Leave Fellowship (formerly Research Readership) to work on "Gradience in split intransivity: theoretical and experimental explorations of the lexicon-syntax interface".
2004-06 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant on "The syntax-pragmatics interface in bilingual first language acquisition" (with L. Serratrice).
2004 Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB): Research Leave Grant to work on "Residual optionality in near-native second language speakers".2002-03 ESRC grant on "Transfer at the syntax-pragmatics interface: the acquisition of subjects". (with Ludovica Serratrice)
2000-02 ESRC research grant on "Syntactic native language attrition in near-native second language speakers" (with C.Heycock and I. Tsimpli).
1997 Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC): grant (in collaboration with E.G.Bard, L. Kelly and R. Lickley, Linguistics Department, Edinburgh, C. Frenck-Mestre (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) and K. Kilborn of the Psychology Department, Glasgow) on "Judgment and perception of gradable linguistic anomaly".
1997 British Academy, Humanities Research Board: research grant on "Split intransitivity in some Italo-Romance dialects"
1993-95 ESRC research grant on "Losing the V2 constraint: parameter resetting in second language acquisition" (with D. Robertson and E.G. Bard)
1992-93 ESRC research grant on "Validating Magnitude Estimation of Linguistic Acceptability" (with E.G. Bard and D. Robertson)
2006 University of Edinburgh Development Trust Research Fund: grant to work on "Effects of bilingualism in non-linguistic domains"(with Sergio Della Sala, Human Cognitive Neuroscience).
2000 University of Edinburgh Development Trust small project grant on "Language change in the Faroes" (with C. Heycock and M. Meyerhoff)
2000 University of Edinburgh Development Trust small project grant on "The mental representation of L2 sounds" (with D.R. Ladd and M. Ota).
1998 University of Edinburgh, Faculty Group Research Fund: research grant (in collaboration with E.G.Bard) to support the project "The bases of linguistic acceptability judgments"
1998 British Academy, Joint International Activities Scheme: grant to collaborate with M. Cennamo (Naples University) on the project "Split intransitivity in some Italo-Romance dialects".
1997 Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC): grant (in collaboration with E.G.Bard, L. Kelly and R. Lickley, Linguistics Department, Edinburgh, C. Frenck-Mestre (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) and K. Kilborn of the Psychology Department, Glasgow) on "Judgment and perception of gradable linguistic anomaly".
1986 University of Edinburgh research grant.
1986 British Academy Personal Research Grant.
2003 Recipient of the Language Learning Roundtable Conference Program Award for 2003-2004.
2003 British Academy, British Conference Grant towards the organisation of the Eurosla 2003 conference.
1999 British Academy Conference Grant, to attend the 24th Boston University Conference on Language Development.
1998 British Academy, Joint International Activities grant (to continue work on 'Split intransitivity in some Italo-Romance dialects" with M. Cennamo.
1996 University of Edinburgh, Interdisciplinary Symposium Fund: grant to support the organisation of the international conference "Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing".
1996 University of Edinburgh, Faculty Group Research Fund: grant to support the conference "Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing".
1996 British Academy Conference Grant, as a contribution towards the expenses for the conference "Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing"
1985 European Science Foundation and British Academy travel and subsistence grant.
1984-85 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Southern California, Department of Linguistics (originally for 4 years; reduced to one year in order to take up employment in Edinburgh).
1983-84 University of Neuchbtel research grant (Research attachment at the University of Neuchbtel, Switzerland).
1982-83 British Council Research Grant (for attachment as a Postgraduate Worker at the University of Edinburgh, Department of Linguistics).