Steven Foley

Steven Foley is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia Athens, specializing in morphosyntax, psycholinguistics, and fieldwork. His research focuses on linking formal grammatical hypotheses to real-time language comprehension, particularly in understudied languages like Georgian and Zapotec. Key areas include incremental ambiguity resolution, morphosyntactic variation, and the sociolinguistic dimensions of linguistic innovation.

His recent work examines the processing of singular they in English, exploring how comprehension strategies vary across social groups. Collaborative studies highlight clusters of comprehension behavior correlated with age and gender identity. Foley also investigates morphological reanalysis in Georgian placeholder verbs and verb-argument dependencies in Georgian syntax, emphasizing crosslinguistic insights for psycholinguistic theory.

Publications include work on sociolinguistic-psycho linguistic interactions (2024), Georgian agreement systems (2024), and syntactic microvariation in Zapotec (2022). He presents findings at conferences such as HSP 2024 and publishes in journals like the Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.

Foley advocates for multi-methodological research and maintains active social media presence for linguistics outreach.