Elected to the Scientific Council of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information, 1995.
Principal investigator of (i) the SSRC-funded Linguistics Research Bibliography project, Sussex, 1976-77, (ii) the SSRC-funded The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of the Comparative Construction project, Sussex, 1978-80, (iii) the SSRC-funded Computer Realization of a Grammar project, Sussex, 1982-83, and (iv) the SERC-funded The Organization of Computer Lexicons project, Sussex, 1985-87. (v) SERC/IED Grant Portable Extensible Traffic Information Collator [POETIC], with R. Evans , 1989-92, £259,000. (vi) UK Support for Sixth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information. ESRC Training Grant, R004261097: £5,000, August 1994. (vii) Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Representation [with L.J. Cahill ]. ESRC Research Grant, R000235724: £132,000, January 1995 to May 1998.
Challenges for Inflectional Description [with G. Corbett , R. Evans , R. Hayward and A, Spencer]. ESRC Seminar Grant, £11,000 pounds [to University of Surrey], October 1996 to September 1998.
Frontiers of Research in Morphology [with G. Corbett , R. Evans , R. Hayward and A. Spencer]. ESRC Seminar Grant, £9,000 pounds [to University of Surrey], October 1994 to September 1996.
Personal research grant, ESRC , The Grammatical Form of Words: Inflectional Morphology and the Lexicon, 1984-85 and 1986-87.
Associate Member, Dynamic Interpretation of Natural Language [DYANA], ESPRIT Basic Research Action Project 3175, 1989-91.
Grant support for research student to work on computational linguistics 1986-89, IBM UK Scientific Centre.
Referee for ACLS, NEH, NSF and SSRC/ESRC research applications on anaphora, language acquisition, conversation, comparative linguistics, pragmatics, syntax, semantics, speech acts, and computational linguistics.
British Academy Overseas Visiting Fellowship to the University of Illinois, June-August 1978.
Consultant, NSF Grant BNS-76-20307 (P.S. Peters & L. Karttunen ), University of Texas at Austin, August-September 1978.
Visiting Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut for Psycholinguistics , Nijmegen, March-April 1980.
Visiting Associate Professor (NSF & Sloan funded research post), Linguistics, Stanford, April-July 1981.
British Council Academic Links and Interchange Scheme award for travel to the University of Trondheim, June 1982.
Research Scholar, Linguistics, Stanford, and Visiting Fellow, Syntax Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz , July 1982 (NSF funded research post).
Research Scholar, Linguistics, UCLA (NSF funded research post) and Visiting Faculty, UCLA Linguistic Institute, July-August 1983.
Visiting Consultant, Institute for New Generation Computer Technology (ICOT ), Tokyo, December 1983.
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI ), Stanford, July-September 1984 (SDF funded research post).
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1984-85.
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI ), Stanford, June-August 1985 (NSF & SDF funded research posts).
Visiting Research Fellow, Syntax Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz , August-September 1986.
Visiting Faculty, Stanford Linguistic Institute, July-August 1987.
Visiting Research Fellow, ILASH , University of Sheffield, December 1995.
Invited discussant/participant (not otherwise listed above):
EAGLES Symposium on subcategorization standards, Abingdon,
November 1995.
Workshop on mathematical theories of language, Stanford, Summer
1987.
Workshop on the explanation of linguistic universals, Cascais, Portugal,
January 1982.
Sloan workshop on Processing long distance dependencies, Amherst, January 1981.
SSRC colloquium on Mutual Knowledge, Surrey, Autumn 1980.
SSRC workshop on AI and Sociology, London, Spring 1976.
BAAL workshop on discourse analysis, Birmingham, Autumn 1974.
