My research focuses on formal and historical aspects of linguistics, especially formal semantics & syntax. My areal interests include South Asia (Sanskrit, Hindi, Sinhala, Nepali, Malayalam etc) and the Caribbean (Jamaican Patois, Dread Talk), as well as early Indo-European (especially Indic & Germanic).

My current research projects include investigations of the syntax & semantics of quantifier particles; the inner semantics of aspectual adverbials; a machine-learning approach to automated focus identification & labelling.

My past work includes studies of epistemic indefinites; the morphosyntax and semantics of verb-verb collocations in South Asian languages; the rise and spread of morphological & orthographic innovations in the cyberpunk subculture; morphological processes in Rastafari Dread Talk.

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