Research Interests:

Professor Reed's research focuses on two areas of theoretical linguistics: syntax and semantics, with a particular interest in representations of the interface between these two modules in terms of the generative and model-theoretic frameworks. She has done extensive work on the syntax and semantics of modal verbs, causative constructions, affected datives, raising constructions, ergatives, and middles, among others.

Recent Publications:

'French Tough-Movement Revisited,' Probus 21.1, 2009, 1-21.

'On the Lack of Transparency Effects in French,' in P. Masullo, E. O’Rourke, and C.-H. Huang (eds.) Romance Linguistics 2007, 2009, 7-49, John Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

'The Diverse Nature of Non-Interrogative wh.' Linguistic Inquiry 34.4, 2005, 635-647.