I am an assistant professor in corpus-based sociolinguistics in the English Language & Linguistics Department at the University of Birmingham. My research aims to better understand the nature of grammatical variation in the context of natural language use, both within and across language varieties. Prior to coming to Birmingham, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics research unit at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium.

Research interests

• corpus-based variationist linguistics
• end-weight effects in word order variation
• grammatical patterns across World Englishes
• argument realization and transitivity alternations
• stylistic variation across registers and genres

Education

• PhD in Linguistics, 2013. Stanford University [Thesis]
• BA in Linguistics, 2006. The Ohio State University