Research interests
Research interests
- historical linguistics
- descriptive linguistics
- language typology
- sociolinguistics
- linguistic theory
- Special interests: grammatical relations; parts of speech; grammatical voice (especially the middle voice); finiteness; spoken / written language; language contact; multilingualism; language and migration; Role and Reference Grammar (RRG); Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG)
- The languages of South Asia, especially Munda (Kharia, Santali, Mundari) and Indo-Aryan (Sadri, Konkani, Nepali, Pali, Sanskrit)
- Maltese (Neo-Arabic)