Fieldwork and Language Documentation

Shweta Akolkar

PhD student

Syntax Language Documentation Semantics Bishnupriya Manipuri

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Rhosean Asmah is a second-year PhD Student in the Linguistics department. Before grad school, she completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and later worked at the University of Maryland. In general, her research focuses on phonetics and its intersections with sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Right now, she has a research project focusing on the phonetic characteristics of rap music, where she studies rappers like Megan Thee Stallion and Doechii. Outside of school, she does art (screenprinting, bookmaking, zines!) and (tries to) read.

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Margaret Asperheim

PhD Student

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Christine Beier

Assistant Adjunct Professor

PhD, UT Austin

Language endangerment, vitality, and revitalization; language documentation and description; Amazonian languages

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Madeline Bossi

Alumna

Syntax and its interfaces, semantics, pragmatics, language documentation and revitalization

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Maksymilian Dabkowski

PhD Candidate

My research brings grammatical patterns from lesser-studied languages to bear on key questions of linguistic theory. Many of my projects investigate the role of word-internal syntactic structure in the phonology and morphology of agglutinating languages. I focus mainly on A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639-3: con), an Amazonian isolate spoken by ca. 1,500 Cofán people in Ecuador and Colombia.