Heritage texts, typology and human history in the Southern Cone
I am the Principal Investigator on a 4-year Leverhulme research grant using corpus methods to look into the typology and historical linguistics of the Southern Cone.
Native American Philology
In 2021, I launched the first version of the Corpus of Historical Mapudungun (CHM), which uses text-based approaches to reconstruct the 400-year history of this language.
Mapudungun phonology and morphology
One of my main focuses is the morphological and phonological structure of Mapudungun, a polysynthetic and agglutinating isolate spoken in the Southern Cone.
Sound and spelling variation in Older Scots
I am a team-member in the AHRC-funded From Inglis to Scots (FITS) project project, mapping sounds to spellings in the earliest records for Scots.
The diachronic interaction of prosodic structure and morphology
I am interested in the overall diachronic relationship between the parsing of units of meaning and larger domains of sound structure.