Last calendar year, I revised a manuscript with Sophie Pierson (UT Austin, now at IXL Learning), Sunny Ananthanarayan (Washington), and Claire Bowern (Yale) on consequences of the broken digital infrastructure for language documentation. This manuscript has been accepted with major revisions at Language, Language Documentation & Revitalization section. The abstract reads: Linguists need to collect, […]

With Naomi Shin and Rosa Vallejos-Yopán (University of New Mexico), I received an NSF grant of $494,659 supporting our project titled “The effects of interlocutor distance in the grammars of bilingual communities.” My role in this project is as a senior collaborator. The Project Summary reads, in part, as follows: Nominal demonstratives like this/that are […]