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:

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

‘Quantifier Scope and the Structure of Faire-Par,’ Romance Linguistics: Theory and Application, 19-32, 2003.

‘Syntactically-Triggered Presuppositions,' Linguistic Analysis, 30.3-4, 295-317, 2002.