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20122025

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Biography

I'm a documentary, descriptive, and historical linguist who works with speakers of endangered languages in west New Guinea. To date, most of my work has focussed on the languages spoken in the Raja Ampat archipelago, just off the northwest tip of New Guinea. I use data from these languages to investigate theoretical, typological, and historical questions about the phonetics and phonology of word prosody, the morphosyntactic expression of possession and spatial deixis, and language contact, diversification, and change more generally. 

Education/Academic qualification

Linguistics, PhD, A grammar of Ambel, an Austronesian language of Raja Ampat, west New Guinea, University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 2 Jul 2018

Linguistics, Master, Investigations in item stability: In pursuit of the optimal meaning list for use in the initial stages of the comparative method, University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 28 Nov 2012

Language Variation and Change, Honours, University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 3 Jul 2009

External Scholarly Memberships and Affiliations

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh

1 Sept 20191 Mar 2024

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