- I was granted research leave in the autumn semester 2025. I have made substantial progress on my book on Old English syntax, but the project is still not finished. Some problems are harder than I had anticipated.
- I submitted a paper on English phrasal verbs from a strictly synchronic perspective. It's my first attempt at such a contribution to formal syntax. Reviews came back, and I revised the paper accordingly. I'm hopeful that this research might be published in the months ahead.
- I gave a talk at the Geneva Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique on that topic in April 2026. I would like to convey my gratitude to the organisers for inviting me.
- I presented work on help with infinitival complementation at ICAME47 in Koblenz in May 2026. It was a lot of fun! My research features fairly large-scale datasets based on 11 historical corpora. The presentation slides can be viewed here. I'd like to thank everybody involved with that conference.
- I taught the courses Corpus Linguistics (LELA60112) and Analysing Grammar (LELA20022).
- I supervised a BA dissertation on French clitics, and two MA dissertations, one on lexical bundles in Trump interviews, the other on wh-positioning in Middle Chinese (c. 400–1200 CE). - A new Middle English poem, Sinners Beware, has been added to the PCMEP.
- My application to SALC Research Development & Support Fund was successful. £2,000 will be spent on advancing a corpus of late medieval prose romances with AI.
- I have taken on my first PhD student as main supervisor. Her name is Lucy. She will work on the spread of innovative relative clause strategies in Early Modern English. I'm eager to develop this research with her, starting in September 2026.