I recently had a colleague ask me about how to represent language areas for one language group alongside other languages spoken in the area. The observation was that many languages with a small number.. (more)

Most of my fieldwork research on minority languages has been conducted within the Austroasiatic (AA) family. This is a group of languages spoken by diverse peoples across South & Southeast Asia, and w.. (more)

Things have been quite busy over the last year or so, when I last posted. My wife and I moved to Zurich with our 4-month old, I helped organize a workshop on word order here at UZH, a proceedings volu.. (more)

Planting rice near Jowai, NE India At the end of last year the ICAAL 7 proceedings volume was published by University of Hawai’i Press as a special issue of the Journal of the South-East Asian Lingui.. (more)

The last post was a bit of a brain dump to make sure I didn’t forget a few lessons I learned, in part because I knew I was quitting the job that involved doing ML type things. While I was working ther.. (more)

In my last post I discussed the concept of deixis and illustrated deictic demonstratives in Pnar. Pnar’s deictic demonstrative system combines gender clitics with largely distance-based deictic morp.. (more)