Research

My interest in language contact was intially sparked by my fascination on how multiple languages coexist in time and space together. From there, reading works on pronoun borrowing grew my desire to learn more about how contact induces language change and variation. I currently focus on how morphology and grammatical features can change when two or more languages interact. This has implications for bi- and multilingualism, creolistics, and language genesis and evolution.

Broad Research Interests

• Language contact
• Mixed languages & creolistics
• Areal linguistics
• Trade/port languages
• Language change & variation
• Information structure
• Endangered languages & language maintenance
• Language evolution
• Language ecologies
• Diasporic language use & diaspora language contact