Alumni
Department of Linguistics
I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Linguistics. I specialize in language documentation/ fieldwork and historical linguistics. My dissertation, Negation in Four Languages of Indonesia, explores the role of indirectness in the emergence of special negative forms and expressions in a collection of Indonesian languages based on original fieldwork in multiple sites across the Indonesian archipelago. Though I work primarily with Austronesian languages of Indonesia, I am also engaged in ongoing projects with Tibeto-Burman languages, particularly with varieties of Tibetan. I am especially interested in negation and evidential/epistemic systems of language, as well as the documentation of folkloric traditions.