Linguistics

My field of study is linguistics, with a particular focus on cognitive linguistics, Construction Grammar, and English linguistics. Contemporary linguistics does not merely describe individual linguistic expressions; rather, it aims to uncover the language faculty (i.e., knowledge of language) that makes it possible to produce and understand them. In this sense, the study of language is also a way of approaching the nature of the human mind and brain.
Within cognitive linguistics, Construction Grammar views linguistic knowledge as grounded in general cognitive abilities, such as perception and construal. It argues that speakers’ linguistic knowledge consists of constructions, that is, linguistic form–meaning pairings. My research focuses on English verb-related phenomena, especially how the understood subject of a complement is interpreted in relation to the explicit subject or object of the main clause. I examine such phenomena from the perspective of Construction Grammar and aim to contribute to its theoretical development.

Senior Lecturer
Subject of Studies : English linguistics